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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. Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
austere
euphemism
boorish
banal
2. Meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services
implacable
attenuate
transitory
officious
3. The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart - esp. in forgiving
presumptuous
quibble
boorish
magnanimity
4. Foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals
salubrious
officious
vacillate
quixotic
5. Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant
precursor
profuse
intransigent
chicanery
6. Approach; tend to meet; come together
verbose
converge
amenable
skeptic
7. Brief and concise in wording
adulterate
terse
inconsequential
platitude
8. Wordy
verbose
document
tortuous
efficacy
9. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
misanthrope
ambivalence
pine
putrefy
10. Determination; firmness of purpose
antipathy
plasticity
homogenous
resolve
11. One who practices rigid self-denial - esp. as an act of religious devotion
banal
disparate
ascetic
veracity
12. Wasteful; reckless with money
prodigal
hackneyed
inconsequential
putrefy
13. Waver; fluctuate
renege
dichotomy
vacillate
odious
14. Thicken; congeal; clot
chicanery
solicitous
pristine
coagulate
15. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
prodigal
eclectic
subtle
fawn
16. Sad; sullen; melancholy
morose
intransigent
insipid
imperturbable
17. A force that causes rotation
invective
confound
torque
plethora
18. Claim; thesis
contention
precipitate
surfeit
mollify
19. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
amenable
superfluous
phlegmatic
austere
20. Steadily increasing volume or force
ephemeral
terse
crescendo
hackneyed
21. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
eclectic
erudite
sanction
oscillation
22. To fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
renege
eccentric
laud
subtle
23. Model of excellence or perfection
paragon
exacerbate
dogma
morose
24. Something that brings about a change in something else
catalyst
lament
satiate
cogent
25. Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
condone
reprobate
preen
filibuster
26. Causing sleep or lethargy
soporific
aberrant
pious
vacillate
27. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
capricious
intransigent
discrepancy
harangue
28. To express sorrow; to grieve
mollify
prevaricate
lament
specious
29. Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
vacillate
ennui
specious
prevaricate
30. Deep; not superficial; complete
pithy
refractory
dogma
profound
31. Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
lucid
assuage
assuage
adulterate
32. Made less dense (of a gas)
inimical
rarefied
fallacy
aggrandize
33. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
endemic
arbitrate
sporadic
condone
34. Power to produce desired effect
pithy
efficacy
mollify
diffuse
35. Stubbornly opinionated
decorum
discerning
dogmatic
disparage
36. Hostile - unfriendly
inimical
oscillation
enigmatic
capricious
37. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
disparage
esoteric
crescendo
appropriate
38. Marked by extreme calm - impassivity and steadiness
ostentatious
imperturbable
denigrate
cynicism
39. About to happen; impending
pragmatic
capricious
imminent
ascetic
40. Associated with war and the armed forces
abscond
prodigal
martial
lucid
41. To publicly praise or promote
tout
pirate
archaic
explicit
42. Hard; strenuous
occlude
specious
gregarious
arduous
43. Producing large volumes or amounts; productive
aver
prolific
fallacious
analogous
44. To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
dissemble
stint
prattle
boorish
45. Wordy
exculpate
verbose
perfidious
truculence
46. Overcharge
disabuse
superfluous
problematic
gouge
47. Tending to believe too readily; gullible
credulous
emulate
embellish
pious
48. Recent convert; beginner
diffuse
bolster
loquacious
neophyte
49. Convincing and well reasoned
cogent
fulminate
exculpate
disinterested
50. Generosity
obviate
magnanimity
ubiquitous
emulate