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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. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
proliferate
insinuate
viable
penurious
2. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
volatile
bombastic
disabuse
tirade
3. Peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
assuage
saturate
tangential
decorum
4. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
ebullience
relegate
imperturbable
probity
5. Lacking funds; without money
impecunious
perfunctory
aberrant
penurious
6. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
sage
specious
amalgamate
fatuous
7. Draw out by discussion
elicit
inert
nascent
trenchant
8. Convincing and well reasoned
waver
cogent
transgression
laconic
9. Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
ephemeral
penury
squander
austere
10. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
reverent
abstemious
partisan
waver
11. Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
succinct
soporific
decorum
deride
12. Satisfy fully
laconic
trenchant
satiate
innocuous
13. To overwhelm; to cover with water
garrulous
inundate
heretical
perfunctory
14. A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
indigence
satire
abscond
facilitate
15. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
immutable
implacable
preamble
squander
16. To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
venerate
static
dupe
disinterested
17. Ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
opaque
dogmatic
assuage
caustic
18. Arrogant; taking liberties
propensity
loquacious
insularity
presumptuous
19. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
mitigate
canonical
truculent
immutable
20. Intentional breach of faith; treachery
perfidy
adulation
amalgamate
anarchy
21. A universally recognized principle
axiom
effrontery
deference
sporadic
22. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
obstinate
pristine
proclivity
metaphor
23. To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
conundrum
abstemious
prattle
attenuate
24. Aggressiveness; ferocity
cogent
wary
truculence
prevaricate
25. Violation of a law; sin
contentious
transgression
diffuse
connoisseur
26. Coiled around; involved; intricate
archaic
probity
convoluted
stymie
27. To increase in number quickly
arduous
shard
adulterate
proliferate
28. Stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
quiescence
innocuous
loquacious
tacit
29. Talkative
loquacious
obfuscate
frugality
castigate
30. Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in several ways
innocuous
obstinate
opprobium
ambiguous
31. Docile; easily managed
bombastic
partisan
tractable
zealous
32. Person celebrated for wisdom
impervious
iconoclast
ubiquitous
sage
33. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
specious
dismiss
avarice
pristine
34. Quick to act without thinking
contiguous
aver
decorum
impetuous
35. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
obfuscate
amenable
filibuster
contention
36. A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect - esp. in literature and art
presumptuous
pristine
crescendo
parody
37. Easily deceived
recluse
gullible
embellish
default
38. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
endemic
homogenous
connoisseur
impair
39. Easily made angry
refulgent
irascible
contrite
discordant
40. Exaggeration; overstatement
homogenous
hyperbole
exigency
inimical
41. Establish by evidence; verify; support
substantiate
irascible
ephemeral
enervate
42. Make express conditions - specify
stipulate
propensity
misanthrope
default
43. Polite or appropriate conduct or behavior
attenuate
impede
decorum
waver
44. One who hates mankind
misanthrope
beneficent
canon
bombastic
45. A piece of broken pottery or glass
shard
aesthetic
innocuous
felicitous
46. To flatter or praise excessively
rancorous
infelicitous
plethora
fawn
47. A contradiction or dilemma
catalyst
idolatry
endemic
paradox
48. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
enumerate
apathy
disparate
tirade
49. Winding; full of curves
subpoena
approbation
voracious
tortuous
50. Injure; hurt
exculpate
supposition
immutable
impair