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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. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
indeterminate
savor
rarefy
opaque
2. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound; dissonance
sordid
cacophony
accolade
impervious
3. Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood
ephemeral
gregarious
stupefy
mercurial
4. Sleeping; lethargic; latent
truculent
lethargic
fervent
dormant
5. Gather; accumulate
aggregate
tacit
fervor
vituperative
6. To invalidate; to repeal; to retract
malleable
tirade
rescind
sublime
7. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
viscous
torpid
perfidy
candid
8. Bright - brilliant - glowing
luminous
exigent
laconic
torque
9. Silent - reserved
reticent
rescind
volatile
vacillate
10. Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
tractable
pungent
torque
convoluted
11. To make better or more tolerable
facetious
noxious
grandiloquence
ameliorate
12. A disposition in favor of something; preference
predilection
tirade
anomalous
volatile
13. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
harangue
homogenous
plethora
disparage
14. To combine - to mix together
diatribe
pristine
amalgamate
ephemeral
15. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
dilettante
stolid
caustic
imminent
16. Deviating from the norm
opprobium
rescind
pervasive
aberrant
17. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted
pristine
luminous
oscillation
desultory
18. Causing sleep or lethargy
dissemble
soporific
compliant
contiguous
19. Deserving blame
reticent
catalyst
dissonance
culpable
20. Determination
meticulous
abscond
tenacity
resolution
21. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
furtive
querulous
untenable
contiguous
22. To stop up; to prevent the passage of
censure
penurious
elegy
occlude
23. Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
harangue
queries
fallacious
pragmatic
24. To defame; to characterize harshly
repudiate
impassive
vilify
elegy
25. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
morose
transitory
derision
refractory
26. To copy; to try to equal or excel
occlude
emulate
inchoate
inherent
27. Excessive praise; intense adoration
adulation
confound
penchant
embellish
28. Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
pristine
explicit
static
dogmatic
29. Overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
erratic
demur
ameliorate
presumptuous
30. About to happen; impending
imminent
welter
transgression
analogous
31. Coiled around; involved; intricate
convoluted
eclectic
fatuous
occlude
32. Pompous speech or expression
placate
pragmatic
appease
grandiloquence
33. Excess; overindulgence
esoteric
opprobrium
surfeit
quotidian
34. Lasting a short time
proliferate
ephemeral
opprobrium
presumptuous
35. Settle down; descend; grow quiet
vacillate
subside
dissemble
reticent
36. Harmful; injurious
appropriate
noxious
bolster
immutable
37. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
abscond
arduous
meticulous
rarefy
38. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
euphemism
superfluous
striated
odious
39. Relieve
alleviate
ambiguous
obviate
inert
40. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
pedagogy
amenable
gainsay
elicit
41. To overwhelm; to cover with water
inundate
arbitrate
engender
precursor
42. Biting in wit
stolid
caustic
axiomatic
enervate
43. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
axiomatic
shard
hegemony
foment
44. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
capricious
inert
prodigal
eccentric
45. Satisfy fully
disparate
sparse
satiate
lucid
46. Shut; close
buttress
extrapolation
occlude
credulous
47. Thick; sticky
dogmatic
attenuate
viscous
incorporate
48. Prevent by taking action in advance
bombast
pervade
plummet
forestall
49. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
fulminate
desultory
complaisance
viscous
50. The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
renege
canonical
nebulous
mendacity