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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. Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday
impervious
mundane
disabuse
analogous
2. Characterized by a strong - sharp smell or taste
pungent
arduous
deterrent
tenacity
3. Fleeting; passing quickly; brief
negate
mendacious
transient
maverick
4. Unoriginal; obtained from another source
derivative
cogent
impecunious
tout
5. To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
ascetic
proliferate
aesthetic
quixotic
6. The essential or central part
perfidious
pith
discretion
nascent
7. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
halcyon
rarefy
tenuous
zeal
8. Motionless
quiescent
convoluted
loquacious
efficacy
9. To make more bearable
alleviate
rarefy
commensurate
canonical
10. One who hates all other humans
contrite
misanthrope
propitiate
mendacious
11. Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
repudiate
redoubtable
striated
apprise
12. Indifferent; free from self-interest
vacillate
disinterested
impervious
inimical
13. Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
preamble
disparate
endemic
advocate
14. Composed of elements drawn from various sources
platitude
dichotomy
eclectic
vigilant
15. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
glib
decorum
commensurate
salubrious
16. To invalidate; to repeal; to retract
quiescent
naive
rescind
alacrity
17. Something that discourages; hindrance
viable
catalyst
permeable
deterrent
18. Pacify; conciliate
aesthetic
placate
obdurate
fulminate
19. Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
decorum
austere
refulgent
infelicitous
20. Calm; placid
abate
imperturbable
equivocate
canon
21. Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm
ebullient
rarefy
intrepid
tortuous
22. Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
onerous
morose
refractory
dilettante
23. Tending to believe too readily; gullible
substantiate
credulous
amalgamate
effrontery
24. Model of perfection
castigate
paragon
erudite
synthesis
25. Trickery; deception
impunity
chicanery
disabuse
filibuster
26. Shyness
diffidence
laconic
equanimity
impermeable
27. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
alleviate
reproach
querulous
abeyance
28. Quick to act without thinking
impetuous
catalyst
mendacity
equivocate
29. To appease; to calm by making concessions
misanthrope
precursor
placate
aesthetic
30. Sharp and irritating to the senses
paucity
burnish
pungent
facilitate
31. To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
prattle
pervasive
imperturbable
foment
32. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
enigmatic
mercurial
caustic
neophyte
33. Treacherous; disloyal
chaos
catalyst
insinuate
perfidious
34. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
obsequious
intransigent
antipathy
esoteric
35. Of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
enumerate
grandiloquent
frugality
mundane
36. Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
infelicitous
censure
penurious
rarefy
37. Blacken
perfidy
denigrate
pith
satire
38. Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
magnanimity
tirade
contentious
effrontery
39. A speech honoring the dead
tirade
impermeable
bolster
eulogy
40. Supporting bar
apprise
strut
ebullience
grandiloquence
41. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
wary
insipid
phlegmatic
ambiguous
42. Basically different; unrelated
obdurate
obdurate
extemporaneous
disparate
43. Lacking genuine candor; insincere
heretical
eloquent
disingenuous
salubrious
44. Intensely emotional; feverish
subpoena
fervid
probity
disinterested
45. Obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly
distend
disparage
maverick
recalcitrant
46. Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
austere
invective
cacophony
dogmatic
47. A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony
philanthropy
chauvinist
maverick
subpoena
48. Draw out by discussion
contention
inundate
artless
elicit
49. Quick - keen - or accurate knowledge or insight
acumen
loquacious
stoic
hubris
50. Shut; close
occlude
truculent
whimsical
articulate