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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. Approve; ratify
terse
pith
misanthrope
sanction
2. Peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
gullible
corroborate
plummet
tangential
3. Damaging; harmful; injurious
alleviate
inimical
accolade
prevaricate
4. A force that causes rotation
alchemy
diffidence
torque
luminous
5. Immunity from punishment or penalty
prolific
recant
impunity
ostentatious
6. Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
implacable
welter
subpoena
deference
7. Prevent by taking action in advance
forestall
disabuse
perfidious
convoluted
8. Practicing self-denial; austere
flag
equivocate
ascetic
implode
9. To calm or make less severe
mollify
sparse
loquacious
fatuous
10. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
occlude
untenable
static
pungent
11. A person or thing that causes change
precarious
hedonism
bombastic
catalyst
12. To punish or criticize harshly
divest
castigate
tout
fallacious
13. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
lucid
disabuse
discrete
superfluous
14. To make better or more tolerable
homogenous
ameliorate
cacophonous
desiccate
15. Claim; thesis
attenuate
insipid
contention
luminous
16. Ability to be molded
plasticity
axiom
quotidian
burgeon
17. A puzzle; a mystery
quibble
vexation
enigma
rescind
18. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
presumptuous
mitigate
explicit
abstemious
19. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
esoteric
strut
avarice
imperturbable
20. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
recalcitrant
caustic
bolster
impecunious
21. Lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
inured
torpor
lucid
inundate
22. Thicken; congeal; clot
pragmatic
sedulous
coagulate
malleable
23. Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
mitigate
pious
eccentric
parody
24. A funeral hymn or mournful speech
advocate
dirge
shard
implacable
25. Weaken
mercurial
lethargic
enervate
lethargic
26. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
truculent
gregarious
venerate
oscillation
27. Predictable - cliched - boring
renege
banal
platitude
cacophony
28. Marked by - feeling - or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
lament
reverent
vilify
acumen
29. Violation of a law; sin
soporific
transgression
engender
rhetoric
30. To drink deeply
chicanery
quaff
ubiquitous
contention
31. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
pervasive
rarefy
pedagogy
presumptuous
32. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
intransigent
eloquent
ostentatious
acumen
33. Sociable
itinerary
gregarious
waver
striated
34. Impervious; not permitting passage through its substance
impermeable
desiccate
inadvertently
qualms
35. Arrogant presumption or pride
hubris
insipid
fawning
discerning
36. Wordy
pervasive
rescind
verbose
pedant
37. Hinder - block
frugality
relegate
impede
obfuscate
38. To choose not to do something
diffident
dissemble
abstain
eloquent
39. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
torpid
supposition
condone
bombast
40. Riddle; difficult problem
presumptuous
gouge
conundrum
proliferate
41. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
stipulate
querulous
squander
rhetoric
42. Characterized by or given to pretentiousness
ascetic
empirical
vacillate
ostentatious
43. Intentional obstruction - esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
intransigence
obfuscate
gullible
filibuster
44. Poverty; destitution
penury
inert
amalgamate
disabuse
45. Without deceit
fortuitous
verbose
guileless
reprobate
46. Hostile - unfriendly
imminent
inimical
prattle
whimsical
47. Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
precursor
pragmatic
ennui
misanthrope
48. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
meticulous
indeterminate
apprise
solicitous
49. Hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
contrite
malleable
placate
banal
50. Disown; disavow
lethargic
flag
placate
repudiate