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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. Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
iconoclast
austere
erudite
amalgamate
2. Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
opaque
truculent
dichotomy
antipathy
3. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
exacerbate
alchemy
ebullience
obsequious
4. A disposition in favor of something; preference
predilection
ambivalence
substantiate
estimable
5. Sophisticated; refined; elegant
dormant
diffuse
abstemious
urbane
6. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
indeterminate
refute
naive
intransigent
7. Extremely talkative
loquacious
ascetic
pedantic
placate
8. Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
ambiguous
stymie
cogent
astringent
9. Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
supersede
volatile
impetuous
gregarious
10. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
volatile
pungent
tout
proliferate
11. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
cacophonous
querulous
astringent
obsequious
12. Ostracize; banish; outlaw
zealot
satiate
decorum
proscribe
13. Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
secrete
deride
dearth
diatribe
14. One who hates all other humans
vacillate
misanthrope
subtle
perfunctory
15. Abnormal; irregular
incipient
anomalous
ingenuous
platitude
16. Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
obdurate
belie
adulation
truculence
17. Shut; close
spurious
veracity
occlude
volatile
18. Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
discordant
dogmatic
dilettante
secrete
19. Stubborn
obdurate
arbitrate
chicanery
qualms
20. To plunge or drop straight down
proliferate
plummet
reticent
presumptuous
21. Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density - force - degree)
impassive
ingenuous
attenuate
maverick
22. Kindly; doing good
plethora
prodigal
beneficent
garrulous
23. Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
convoluted
dogmatic
extemporaneous
vituperative
24. Troubling; burdensome
eclectic
onerous
pragmatic
anarchy
25. To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
precipitate
equivocate
tortuous
dupe
26. Model of excellence or perfection
belie
querulous
paragon
supersede
27. Unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
obsequious
recalcitrant
inert
obsequious
28. Languor; weariness
facilitate
supposition
pragmatic
lassitude
29. To reduce in amount - degree - or severity
abate
proliferate
disabuse
abscond
30. To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
adulterate
platitude
disinterested
vacillate
31. Approach; tend to meet; come together
savor
chauvinist
irascible
converge
32. Great disorder or confusion
paean
austere
mercurial
chaos
33. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
rhetoric
garrulous
qualified
squalid
34. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
squalid
eulogy
occlude
untenable
35. Cheerful promptness; eagerness
sporadic
shard
reproach
alacrity
36. Something out of place in time
proliferate
anachronism
sanction
pristine
37. Lie - mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
naive
equivocate
adulterate
savor
38. Wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas)
diffuse
prodigal
advocate
aberrant
39. Coiled around; involved; intricate
convoluted
insensible
exacerbate
obviate
40. Weaken
vituperative
enervate
sparse
dupe
41. To provide supporting evidence
attenuate
alleviate
corroborate
welter
42. Artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
appropriate
eulogy
pervasive
ingenuous
43. Disguise; pretend
stipulate
recalcitrant
dissemble
mollify
44. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
volatile
desiccate
nascent
iconoclast
45. Calm; sluggish; unemotional
contentious
phlegmatic
warranted
exigent
46. Sociable
ubiquitous
abscond
gregarious
exacerbate
47. Hermit; loner
bombastic
recluse
refute
pragmatic
48. Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
laconic
exculpate
nebulous
condone
49. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
precursor
canon
eclectic
mitigate
50. Practical rather than idealistic
tortuous
penurious
probity
pragmatic