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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To stun - baffle - or amaze
stupefy
reprobate
aesthetic
esoteric
2. Understood; not put into words
tacit
catalyst
guileless
desiccate
3. Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
opaque
chary
mundane
mendacity
4. Loquacious; wordy; talkative
obviate
garrulous
guile
prudence
5. To grow rapidly or flourish
burgeon
enigmatic
placate
gullible
6. Bitter scolding; invective
noxious
diatribe
antipathy
archaic
7. Superficial; not thorough; lacking interest - care - or enthusiasm
perfunctory
indeterminate
propriety
whimsical
8. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
dissemble
aberrant
pine
sparse
9. Person celebrated for wisdom
exculpate
abate
sage
verbose
10. Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density - force - degree)
obviate
savor
attenuate
resolution
11. Unprejudiced
exacerbate
disinterested
distend
fawning
12. Trickery; deception
placate
chicanery
condone
enhance
13. Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
abstain
perennial
intransigent
prodigious
14. Belittle
candid
fledgling
disparage
ingenuous
15. To annoy
perfunctory
vex
ameliorate
solicious
16. Supporting bar
indigence
dogma
belie
strut
17. One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
odious
engender
prodigal
iconoclast
18. Excessive praise; intense adoration
eloquent
gregarious
adulation
lucid
19. Fleeting; passing quickly; brief
anachronism
immutable
document
transient
20. To praise highly
obviate
solvent
pervade
laud
21. Practical as opposed to idealistic
impervious
apathy
homogenous
pragmatic
22. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
grandiloquent
fervor
onerous
compliant
23. Able to speak clearly and expressively
insipid
complaisance
articulate
astringent
24. Approve; ratify
sanction
tortuous
mitigate
irascible
25. Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
whimsical
impetuous
soporific
opaque
26. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
axiomatic
disparate
mitigate
dilate
27. Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
effrontery
grandiloquent
piety
plastic
28. Understood but not stated
implicit
enumerate
intractable
sanction
29. Sad; sullen; melancholy
morose
qualified
vituperate
obdurate
30. Calm; not easily disturbed
convoluted
phlegmatic
empirical
erudite
31. Suspended action
abeyance
peruse
pristine
dearth
32. A funeral hymn or mournful speech
cynicism
dirge
inconsequential
vigilant
33. Urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention
spurious
exigency
probity
malingerer
34. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
apathy
profligate
perennial
ingenuous
35. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
immutable
polemical
prodigal
rescind
36. Person competent to act as a judge of art - etc.; a lover of an art
filibuster
heretical
didactic
connoisseur
37. To produce - cause - or bring about
sanction
inured
converge
engender
38. Penitent
proliferate
contrite
attenuate
esoteric
39. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
contention
bombast
desiccate
abate
40. Concerning the appreciation of beauty
savor
chicanery
intransigence
aesthetic
41. Adherence to highest principles; uprightness
pungent
probity
disinterested
diatribe
42. Greed - esp. for wealth
avarice
invective
supposition
audacious
43. Arrogant presumption or pride
facetious
ameliorate
hubris
deterrent
44. Lacking coherence
facilitate
ebullience
disjointed
occlude
45. Urgent; requiring immediate action
bombastic
emulate
exigent
bombastic
46. Stubborn; unmanageable
placate
hyperbole
refractory
obviate
47. Aggressiveness; ferocity
abyss
truculence
rescind
pristine
48. Depart secretly and hide
aver
abscond
recant
proliferate
49. Public disgrace
dismiss
implacable
laconic
opprobrium
50. Lie - mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
paean
desiccate
florid
equivocate