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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. Lacking self-confidence
itinerary
maverick
indeterminate
diffident
2. Long - passionate - and vehement speech
harangue
rescind
conciliatory
satiate
3. Aggressiveness; ferocity
insipid
coda
pernicious
truculence
4. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
inured
esoteric
eclectic
reverent
5. Intense and passionate feeling
tirade
equivocate
ardor
soporific
6. To express sorrow; to grieve
implacable
perfidious
lament
insipid
7. Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
precipitate
subtle
malleable
inert
8. To court favor by a flattering manner
frugality
stolid
fawn
caustic
9. Immunity from punishment or penalty
mollify
shard
impunity
opprobrium
10. Full of pores; like a sieve
porous
specious
engender
querulous
11. Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity
bolster
paradox
levity
loquacious
12. Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
log
dilettante
bombastic
hackneyed
13. The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
complaisant
hegemony
opaque
impede
14. Shyness
diffidence
enervate
disabuse
reticent
15. Speech in praise of someone
convention
incongruity
opaque
eulogy
16. To publicly praise or promote
irresolute
impede
savor
tout
17. Using few words
pithy
condone
laconic
elicit
18. To invalidate; to repeal; to retract
obviate
maverick
rescind
meticulous
19. To anticipate and make unnecessary
derision
belie
intractable
obviate
20. Approve; ratify
sanction
mollify
precursor
compliant
21. Abstruse; profound; secret
inundate
innocuous
vacillate
recondite
22. Sleeping; lethargic; latent
divest
condone
dormant
prevaricate
23. Cowardly
futile
craven
irascible
mollify
24. Greed - esp. for wealth
chicanery
aberrant
penury
avarice
25. Establish by evidence; verify; support
esoteric
substantiate
quixotic
dismiss
26. Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
stolid
morose
indifferent
propriety
27. Without feeling; imperturbable; stoical
pristine
impassive
connoisseur
fervor
28. Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
indifferent
abstain
audacious
opaque
29. To lie or deviate from the truth
precipitate
metaphor
chauvinist
prevaricate
30. Violation of a law; sin
facilitate
divest
transgression
conciliatory
31. An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
approbation
occlude
maverick
iconoclast
32. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
amenable
chicanery
recalcitrant
tirade
33. Easily made angry
irascible
dissemble
gregarious
banal
34. Unpredictable; fickle
felicitous
capricious
queries
antipathy
35. Determination; firmness of purpose
torpid
credulous
resolve
cynicism
36. Promoting health or well-being
salubrious
adulation
attenuate
craven
37. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
fervid
inveigle
prodigious
disparate
38. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
paean
glib
condone
inured
39. Person celebrated for wisdom
impassive
audacious
imperturbable
sage
40. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
ingenuous
solicious
squalid
static
41. Minor objection or complaint
pragmatic
obsequious
quibble
penury
42. To defame; to characterize harshly
nascent
hyperbole
vilify
insipid
43. Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
futile
queries
torpor
impassive
44. Concerning the appreciation of beauty
salubrious
assuage
aesthetic
precursor
45. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
neologism
viable
hackneyed
amenable
46. Made less dense (of a gas)
rarefied
laconic
misanthrope
inundate
47. Diligent
assiduous
cogent
permeate
complaisant
48. A natural predisposition or inclination
rescind
derivative
ambivalence
proclivity
49. To overwhelm; to cover with water
engender
gullible
inundate
pragmatic
50. Very cautious
impair
recant
cogent
wary