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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. Discordant; inharmonious
cacophonous
levee
reverent
stint
2. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
effrontery
arduous
profligate
estimable
3. Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
supersede
contrite
insipid
alleviate
4. Pompous walk
dirge
specious
anachronism
strut
5. Implied; not explicitly stated
tacit
itinerary
static
noxious
6. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
desultory
metaphor
exacerbate
savor
7. Trite remark; commonplace statement
endemic
platitude
dissemble
antipathy
8. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
unfeigned
obsequious
perfunctory
elegy
9. Lasting a short time
propriety
extrapolation
ephemeral
obdurate
10. Assert confidently or declare; as used in law - state formally as a fact
squander
aver
platitude
ambiguous
11. Brief; fleeting
ephemeral
cacophonous
abscond
aver
12. Docile; easily managed
hubris
subpoena
tractable
precipitate
13. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
flag
articulate
welter
proscribe
14. Justified; authorized
recant
pristine
vituperative
warranted
15. To increase in power - influence - and reputation
beneficent
aggrandize
enervate
austere
16. To judge a dispute between two opposing parties
default
irresolute
penchant
arbitrate
17. Capable of being shaped
aggrandize
assuage
digression
malleable
18. Apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
gregarious
incorporate
lament
felicitous
19. Lack of harmony; absurdity
efficacy
dissemble
incongruity
disparate
20. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
eclectic
crescendo
intrepid
hedonism
21. Disown; disavow
complaisance
banal
transitory
repudiate
22. Adorn; ornament; enhance - as a story
precursor
embellish
hubris
ostentatious
23. Overcharge
gouge
bolster
vigilant
sordid
24. Someone who shows off learning
glib
pedant
static
capricious
25. Potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
relegate
malleable
latent
beneficent
26. Infamy; vilification
incongruity
perfidious
opprobium
impetuous
27. To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock
perfunctory
precipitate
obviate
deride
28. To flatter or praise excessively
fawn
cacaphony
erudite
solvent
29. Able to speak clearly and expressively
ameliorate
articulate
bombast
tortuous
30. Full of pores; like a sieve
metaphor
implode
porous
abscond
31. Alertly watchful
approbation
vigilant
abate
querulous
32. To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
buttress
shard
malinger
adulation
33. The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
fallacious
tenacity
insensible
ardor
34. Done without using words
recalcitrant
burnish
tacit
shard
35. Practicing self-denial; austere
garrulous
impetuous
convention
ascetic
36. Not harmonious; conflicting
discordant
precipitate
levee
impetuous
37. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
specious
prevaricate
morose
amenable
38. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
luminous
prevaricate
onerous
parody
39. Intricate and complicated
incipient
convoluted
paragon
cacophony
40. Failure to act
ephemeral
default
conundrum
felicitous
41. To praise highly
laud
platitude
disabuse
demur
42. Arrogant; taking liberties
loquacious
obsequious
specious
presumptuous
43. Damaging; harmful; injurious
disparate
pedagogy
inimical
aver
44. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
derision
obstinate
prohibitive
enervate
45. A sorrowful poem or speech
empirical
elegy
recant
fawn
46. Complex or complicated
convoluted
prescience
dogmatic
surfeit
47. One who feigns illness to escape duty
malingerer
maverick
delineate
obsequious
48. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive - time
archaic
dirge
catalyst
condone
49. Lack of variation
proliferate
stigma
monotony
paragon
50. Using few words
laconic
analogous
diatribe
abstain