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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. Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
emulate
innocuous
contentious
gregarious
2. Wordy
desiccate
verbose
gregarious
salubrious
3. Ancient - old-fashioned
erudite
quiescence
cacophonous
archaic
4. Rash; premature; hasty; sudden
explicit
precipitate
contentious
mundane
5. Able to be molded - altered - or bent
penury
waver
penurious
plastic
6. Accustomed; hardened
insularity
diverge
inured
ambiguous
7. Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
quiescent
nebulous
eccentric
credulous
8. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
prodigal
empirical
obviate
meticulous
9. Practical rather than idealistic
pragmatic
perspicacious
shard
felicitous
10. To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
tenuous
tenacity
prevaricate
garrulous
11. Acting in an indifferent or slow - sluggish manner
lethargic
bombastic
bucolic
prolific
12. Yielding; conforming to requirements
efficacy
preen
compliant
discrepancy
13. To waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; to waver
default
vacillate
mercurial
grandiloquent
14. Coiled around; involved; intricate
lucid
convoluted
virulent
coda
15. One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
dilettante
mundane
relegate
tortuous
16. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
precipitate
metaphor
antipathy
disparate
17. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
intractable
axiomatic
inundate
complaisance
18. Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity
pungent
appropriate
levity
impervious
19. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
crescendo
desultory
obstinate
analogous
20. Infamy; vilification
culpable
opprobium
engender
extemporaneous
21. Trickery or subterfuge
demur
precipitate
chicanery
prodigious
22. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
polemical
pervasive
onerous
intractable
23. Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
accolade
penurious
document
castigate
24. Hint; imply; creep in
coda
insinuate
indifferent
tenuous
25. Arrogant presumption or pride
default
hubris
paragon
idolatrous
26. Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
insensible
discretion
supersede
malleable
27. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
inert
astringent
inundate
complaisance
28. Kindly; doing good
demur
compendium
beneficent
pedant
29. A superficial remark - esp. one offered as meaningful
engender
platitude
disinterested
stolid
30. Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
exculpate
pervade
stigma
glib
31. Droop; grow feeble
endemic
diverge
flag
welter
32. Peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
didactic
contentious
strut
tangential
33. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
decorum
hackneyed
transgression
odious
34. To block; thwart
denigrate
stymie
profound
laud
35. Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
fledgling
discretion
imperturbable
spendthrift
36. Concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that summarizes
prosaic
coda
plethora
lethargic
37. Intentional obstruction - esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
filibuster
plastic
soporific
laud
38. Truthful
veracious
perfunctory
insipid
dissemble
39. Ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
exculpate
fawn
assuage
stipulate
40. Not fully formed; disorganized
fanatical
ingenuous
trenchant
inchoate
41. Of a similar kind
incorporate
disseminate
homogenous
dissemble
42. To reduce in strength
enervate
impermeable
idolatry
craven
43. Temporary - lasting a brief time
transitory
supplant
naive
emollient
44. Trickery; deception
impervious
burgeon
stymie
chicanery
45. Approve; ratify
profligate
stolid
precipitate
sanction
46. To sooth or pacify
fervid
transitory
equanimity
placate
47. Easily made angry
irascible
tenuous
amalgamate
dissemble
48. Hermit; loner
disparate
recluse
abate
eulogy
49. Fervent; ardent; impassioned
naive
effrontery
precursor
zealous
50. Pertaining to disease
perfidious
pathological
assuage
erudite