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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs
reprobate
mendacity
propriety
luminous
2. Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
glib
desiccate
abate
perennial
3. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
discrete
eulogy
enumerate
paucity
4. To sway physically; to be indecisive
analogous
ingenuous
vacillate
desiccate
5. Be thrifty; set limits
profuse
stint
iconoclast
abeyance
6. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
dissemble
nebulous
dupe
abscond
7. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted
quotidian
assuage
pristine
fortuitous
8. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
indigence
obsequious
grandiloquent
paragon
9. A piece of broken pottery or glass
obsequious
shard
adulterate
pungent
10. To express sorrow; to grieve
frugality
acerbic
unfeigned
lament
11. Eliminate from consideration; reject
dismiss
embellish
exigent
alacrity
12. To make larger; to expand
inchoate
neologism
implicit
dilate
13. Insignificant; unimportant
chicanery
inconsequential
strut
embellish
14. Done without using words
malleable
morose
tacit
truculent
15. Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
quixotic
appropriate
perennial
misanthrope
16. Reject; mock; show contempt for
flout
stoic
eloquent
ameliorate
17. Healthful
salubrious
paean
profligate
assiduous
18. The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
capricious
hegemony
insinuate
inherent
19. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
pernicious
putrefy
prevaricate
onerous
20. Pompous in speech and manner
guileless
convention
loquacious
bombastic
21. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
dupe
obstinate
propitiate
facetious
22. Adherence to highest principles; uprightness
probity
grandiloquent
aesthetic
emulate
23. Pompous; using inflated language
bombastic
idolatry
aesthetic
profuse
24. Steadily increasing volume or force
discrete
insularity
crescendo
pithy
25. Polite or appropriate conduct or behavior
candid
decorum
inadvertently
ambivalence
26. Having a sour or bitter taste or character
acerbic
strut
hyperbole
abate
27. Person competent to act as a judge of art - etc.; a lover of an art
gullible
morose
prevaricate
connoisseur
28. Contradict; give a false impression
cacophony
belie
ennui
quibble
29. Damaging; harmful; injurious
assiduous
imperturbable
eulogy
inimical
30. Wordy
voracious
volatile
verbose
fanatical
31. Refusal of any compromise; stubbornness
obdurate
intransigence
implode
veracious
32. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
pedant
untenable
decorum
ebullience
33. Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
appropriate
vituperate
negate
irascible
34. Thrift; economy
variegated
discretion
discern
frugality
35. Disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error
savor
recant
disparate
stint
36. Approval
stint
exculpate
hegemony
approbation
37. Wandering and unpredictable
arduous
eulogy
sublime
erratic
38. Not fully formed; disorganized
diatribe
buttress
inchoate
penury
39. Overcharge
adulation
gouge
mitigate
transitory
40. Characterized by a strong - sharp smell or taste
pungent
adulation
placate
impetuous
41. Calm; sluggish; unemotional
quiescence
capricious
phlegmatic
elicit
42. To demonstrate contempt for - as in a rule or convention
wary
flout
ebullience
hubris
43. Composed of elements drawn from various sources
supposition
philanthropy
eclectic
sporadic
44. Treacherous; disloyal
pungent
derision
morose
perfidious
45. A contradiction or dilemma
discrete
burnish
paradox
facetious
46. Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
rhetoric
penurious
inundate
discordant
47. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
insipid
inundate
anomaly
grandiloquence
48. Severe poverty; stinginess
transient
penury
disabuse
odious
49. Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
disinterested
torpor
gregarious
caustic
50. False; misleading
extemporaneous
static
fallacious
taciturn