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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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Subjects
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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. To annoy
pernicious
vex
rarefy
archaic
2. Deceit or trickery
infelicitous
guile
denigrate
laud
3. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
engender
precipitate
condone
hyperbole
4. Aggressiveness; ferocity
dirge
truculence
bolster
deference
5. Showing off learning; bookish
pedantic
precipitate
demur
dilatory
6. Respectful; worshipful
paean
exculpate
reverent
implacable
7. Unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
capricious
inert
evanescent
mundane
8. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
empirical
zealous
opprobrium
volatile
9. Lacking in flavor; dull
magnanimity
insipid
ambiguous
skeptic
10. Uncertain how to act; weak
irresolute
eclectic
alleviate
attenuate
11. Not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
subtle
obsequious
meticulous
naive
12. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
impetuous
forestall
tirade
audacious
13. To flatter or praise excessively
perennial
anomaly
fawn
burgeon
14. Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
audacious
apathy
squalid
diverge
15. Excessive praise; intense adoration
antagonize
adulation
coagulate
plummet
16. Lasting a short time
desultory
frugality
mendacity
ephemeral
17. Clear; easily understood
tirade
lucid
caustic
lavish
18. Wordy
assuage
verbose
odious
profuse
19. Lacking genuine candor; insincere
strut
censure
analogous
disingenuous
20. Evoking intense aversion or dislike
odious
reticent
elicit
castigation
21. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
obdurate
refractory
capricious
castigation
22. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
implacable
deference
caustic
proliferate
23. Lacking interest or flavor
esoteric
subside
extrapolation
insipid
24. Imitate; rival
emulate
terse
trenchant
nebulous
25. Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
occlude
opaque
emollient
perfidy
26. Strip; deprive
garrulous
heretical
soporific
divest
27. Ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
irascible
assuage
laud
eclectic
28. The willingness to comply with the wishes of others
tangential
complaisance
tirade
satiate
29. Inactive; lacking power to move
permeable
inert
malleable
immutable
30. Poem or song expressing lamentation
elegy
supersede
redoubtable
canonical
31. Stir up; instigate
metamorphosis
endemic
foment
parody
32. Disguise; pretend
dissemble
sublime
viscous
fulminate
33. To defame; to characterize harshly
emulate
vilify
disingenuous
guile
34. Lack of interest or emotion
apathy
rhetoric
banal
fallacious
35. Very learned; scholarly
opprobrium
erudite
dissemble
quiescent
36. Introductory statement
buttress
arduous
candid
preamble
37. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
chary
proliferate
convoluted
insipid
38. Limited; restricted
admonish
qualified
castigation
dissemble
39. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
plastic
savor
gregarious
specious
40. Harmful; injurious
noxious
shard
obdurate
prevaricate
41. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
morose
dirge
laconic
unfeigned
42. Characterized by filth - grime - or squalor; foul
lucid
impair
sordid
lethargic
43. To provide support or reinforcement
bolster
dirge
empirical
lament
44. Convincing
fatuous
contrite
cogent
elegy
45. To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
equivocate
eccentric
culpable
mitigate
46. An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
discredit
antagonize
pedagogy
maverick
47. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
tortuous
untenable
plethora
aesthetic
48. A mournful poem - esp. one lamenting the dead
prodigal
stigma
elegy
disingenuous
49. Unconscious; unresponsive
foment
insensible
spectrum
alleviate
50. Truthful
obdurate
innocuous
venerate
veracious