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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. Claim; thesis
soporific
contention
implacable
decorum
2. To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
bolster
skeptic
prevaricate
laconic
3. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
bombast
gregarious
eulogy
intrepid
4. To praise highly
laud
cacophony
reticent
obdurate
5. Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
intransigent
extemporaneous
didactic
condone
6. Sharing a border; touching; adjacent
corroborate
laconic
soporific
contiguous
7. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
inundate
repudiate
ostentatious
garrulous
8. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
pathological
torpor
castigation
insipid
9. Satisfy fully
mundane
pedantic
satiate
admonish
10. Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
vituperate
catalyst
insensible
torpor
11. Pompous in speech and manner
philanthropy
bombastic
deride
onerous
12. To lessen in intensity or degree
abate
perfidy
truculent
chaos
13. Unpredictable; fickle
flout
inherent
capricious
erudite
14. To sooth or pacify
placate
cogent
prevaricate
contiguous
15. Worship of idols; excessive admiration
obfuscate
ostentatious
axiomatic
idolatry
16. A new word - expression - or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
neologism
welter
transient
discrete
17. Public disgrace
goad
equivocate
opprobrium
synthesis
18. One who practices rigid self-denial - esp. as an act of religious devotion
soporific
ascetic
tenacity
advocate
19. Token of disgrace; brand
euphemism
maverick
satiate
stigma
20. To block; thwart
burgeon
stymie
solicitous
prodigal
21. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
perfunctory
catalyst
antipathy
spurious
22. A harsh and disagreeable combination - often of sounds
exigent
dissonance
pathological
redoubtable
23. Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
stolid
equivocate
audacious
noxious
24. Support; reinforce
perfidious
disjointed
bolster
viscous
25. Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression
explicit
irascible
preen
precipitate
26. Stubborn; unmanageable
aver
grandiloquence
erudite
refractory
27. Changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly
guileless
immutable
volatile
mercurial
28. Uncertain how to act; weak
permeable
irresolute
obviate
dormant
29. Poem or song expressing lamentation
diffident
elegy
equanimity
propriety
30. The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
aver
insipid
chicanery
tenacity
31. To undeceive; to set right
negate
disabuse
desiccate
satiate
32. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
gregarious
ambivalence
bolster
catalyst
33. Able to be molded - altered - or bent
alchemy
plastic
canon
attenuate
34. To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
specious
mitigate
relegate
precipitate
35. Easily made angry
irascible
axiomatic
recalcitrant
transient
36. Relieve
exigent
levity
alleviate
subpoena
37. Alertly watchful
quibble
vigilant
hedonism
meticulous
38. Diligent; persistent; hard-working
abstemious
arduous
pervasive
sedulous
39. Made less dense (of a gas)
penchant
effrontery
rarefied
abyss
40. To reduce in amount - degree - or severity
discordant
abate
striated
apathy
41. Reject; mock; show contempt for
equivocate
flout
sporadic
effrontery
42. Producing large volumes or amounts; productive
irresolute
qualms
prolific
implacable
43. A force that causes rotation
recant
surfeit
strut
torque
44. Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
elegy
obviate
obtuse
eccentric
45. Correct a false impression; undeceive
pedantic
disabuse
equanimity
sporadic
46. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
pernicious
taciturn
erudite
disingenuous
47. To cause or happen before anticipated or required
amalgamate
dichotomy
precipitate
magnanimity
48. Excessive praise; intense adoration
enhance
warranted
adulation
filibuster
49. Immunity from punishment or penalty
impunity
dilettante
skeptic
eulogy
50. Accustomed; hardened
onerous
satiate
inured
desultory