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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. Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
fawning
morose
indifferent
queries
2. Sticky - gluey
viscous
gullible
dismiss
laconic
3. Ridicule; make fun of
goad
deride
opprobrium
euphemism
4. To undeceive; to set right
spectrum
castigation
disabuse
partisan
5. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
aver
noxious
sparse
venerate
6. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
pernicious
verbose
pervasive
vigilant
7. A medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals - esp. base metals into gold
alchemy
propensity
elegy
odious
8. A force that causes rotation
bolster
dissemble
torque
strut
9. Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
fatuous
quotidian
facetious
recant
10. Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
insinuate
plasticity
striated
whimsical
11. Supporting bar
bombastic
prudence
effrontery
strut
12. Known or understood by only a few
exculpate
occlude
esoteric
distend
13. Docile; easily managed
tractable
archaic
quotidian
belie
14. Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm
ingenuous
ebullient
hubris
boorish
15. Urge on
obsequious
goad
enigmatic
plethora
16. To prevent; to make unnecessary
placate
savor
recondite
obviate
17. Hard; strenuous
facilitate
enumerate
astringent
arduous
18. To combine several elements into a whole
amalgamate
intransigent
hubris
catalyst
19. Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
engender
arduous
equivocate
impair
20. Poverty; destitution
digression
neophyte
florid
penury
21. Satisfy fully
satiate
refractory
noxious
ingenuous
22. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
catalyst
meticulous
volatile
oscillate
23. Corresponding in extent - degree - amount - etc.; proportionate
facetious
commensurate
canonical
inherent
24. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive - time
savor
quotidian
archaic
demur
25. Impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
oscillation
preamble
impervious
hyperbole
26. Healthful
lassitude
waver
discerning
salubrious
27. Person hardened by sin - devoid of a sense of decency
burgeon
reprobate
striated
acumen
28. Capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable
audacious
plethora
malleable
prodigal
29. Intimidate; frighten
efficacy
digression
credulous
daunt
30. Fitness; correct conduct
propriety
diffidence
connoisseur
log
31. The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
infelicitous
oscillate
impermeable
hegemony
32. Devotion to pleasurable pursuits - esp. to the pleasures of the senses
rarefied
elegy
hedonism
recondite
33. Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
placate
redoubtable
dissonance
opaque
34. Introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite
capricious
incorporate
imminent
virulent
35. Cancel out; nullify; deny
assuage
quixotic
negate
preamble
36. Dry up
stipulate
obtuse
desiccate
perspicacious
37. Complex or complicated
abate
mollify
convoluted
garrulous
38. A funeral hymn or mournful speech
distend
impetuous
vex
dirge
39. Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
skeptic
perspicacious
grandiloquence
lethargic
40. Beginning to come into being or to become apparent
reproach
skeptic
inundate
incipient
41. Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
pungent
prevaricate
presumptuous
candid
42. To plunge or drop straight down
plummet
verbose
contentious
idolatry
43. Extremely careful about details
buttress
meticulous
stupefy
lethargic
44. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
profligate
tirade
contentious
caustic
45. The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
mendacity
ostentation
diffident
alacrity
46. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
stolid
loquacious
superfluous
plethora
47. Practical (as opposed to idealistic)
abstemious
pragmatic
exacerbate
chicanery
48. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
eloquent
eloquent
bolster
precipitate
49. A mark of shame or discredit
stoic
eclectic
appease
stigma
50. Potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
recalcitrant
subpoena
garrulous
latent