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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. Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm
ebullient
reproach
ambivalence
efficacy
2. Outgoing - sociable
gregarious
exacerbate
austere
prodigious
3. Lavish - wasteful
inimical
facilitate
prodigal
proclivity
4. Long - passionate - and vehement speech
supersede
eclectic
harangue
connoisseur
5. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
lethargic
perfunctory
proliferate
belie
6. Lacking sophistication or experience
cogent
specious
naive
disparage
7. Learned - scholarly - bookish
erudite
exculpate
insularity
pungent
8. Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
fawning
astringent
chicanery
burnish
9. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
waver
gullible
precursor
discern
10. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
caustic
vexation
rescind
laud
11. Change of form
metamorphosis
dupe
intransigent
spendthrift
12. Obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly
soporific
fervor
castigation
recalcitrant
13. Using few words; terse
relegate
opaque
laconic
officious
14. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
propriety
sparse
exacerbate
assuage
15. Disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error
recant
pristine
strut
abscond
16. Steadfast and courageous
nebulous
intrepid
penury
assiduous
17. A sorrowful poem or speech
proliferate
engender
elegy
misanthrope
18. Capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable
striated
virulent
precipitate
malleable
19. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
capricious
refractory
elegy
squander
20. Clear and easily understood
plethora
lucid
obstinate
precipitate
21. Eager and enthusiastic willingness
alacrity
pirate
pedant
abstain
22. Useless; hopeless; ineffectual
hedonism
filibuster
futile
estimable
23. Something that discourages; hindrance
deterrent
archaic
obdurate
onerous
24. Combine; unite in one body
insinuate
perfidious
recluse
amalgamate
25. Overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
loquacious
presumptuous
precipitate
guileless
26. Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
recalcitrant
vituperative
lavish
desultory
27. Impartial and honest in speech
complaisance
candid
condone
renege
28. Waver; fluctuate
officious
vacillate
banal
martial
29. Disprove
garrulous
foment
refute
disinterested
30. Drowsy; dull
lethargic
quiescent
malleable
culpable
31. Fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal
paragon
zealot
placate
euphemism
32. Arrogant presumption or pride
hubris
tacit
dissemble
discrepancy
33. Hermit; loner
daunt
ephemeral
perennial
recluse
34. Talkative
hyperbole
vituperative
extemporaneous
loquacious
35. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
supplant
luminous
anomaly
eloquent
36. Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
intransigent
disingenuous
laconic
pervade
37. Warn; reprove
squander
admonish
complaisance
discredit
38. Intentional obstruction - esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
noxious
articulate
putrefy
filibuster
39. A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
martial
facilitate
facetious
paean
40. To make better or more tolerable
mundane
ameliorate
chicanery
abate
41. Be thrifty; set limits
canonical
pungent
stint
arbitrate
42. Unchangeable
laud
idolatrous
immutable
platitude
43. Lack of interest or emotion
apathy
catalyst
document
reproach
44. Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
mitigate
disparate
volatile
imminent
45. Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
propensity
whimsical
sporadic
malinger
46. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
tirade
astringent
precipitate
eloquent
47. Abnormal or deviant
saturate
foment
aberrant
abscond
48. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
eclectic
recalcitrant
sporadic
venerate
49. Stir up; instigate
innocuous
enumerate
foment
adulterate
50. Purify; refine; concentrate
subpoena
grandiloquent
distill
austere