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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. Implied; not explicitly stated
ascetic
subside
malingerer
tacit
2. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
frugality
mollify
propensity
equivocate
3. An established set of principles or code of laws - often religious in nature
inherent
canon
dupe
anomaly
4. Fearless and daring
divulge
piety
occlude
audacious
5. Polite or appropriate conduct or behavior
decorum
ostentation
luminous
insensible
6. To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock
deride
shard
problematic
dogma
7. Bright - brilliant - glowing
perfidy
ameliorate
viscous
luminous
8. Severe poverty; stinginess
obviate
diatribe
acumen
penury
9. Cowardly
exigency
craven
perfidious
aesthetic
10. Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density - force - degree)
attenuate
cacaphony
accolade
obfuscate
11. Inform
salubrious
malleable
apprise
evanescent
12. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
ascetic
condone
tirade
indeterminate
13. To express sorrow; to grieve
desultory
spectrum
spurious
lament
14. Supporting bar
hackneyed
beneficent
refractory
strut
15. Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
vex
abscond
stoic
exigent
16. Not capable of change
immutable
cogent
esoteric
tangential
17. Sophisticated; refined; elegant
bombastic
urbane
assiduous
felicitous
18. Naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated
immutable
diatribe
ingenuous
volatile
19. Practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
variegated
guile
viable
pious
20. Truthful
disparage
evanescent
torque
veracious
21. Pacify; conciliate
sage
invective
onerous
placate
22. The essential or central part
venerate
pith
saturate
magnanimity
23. Intensely emotional; feverish
disabuse
abyss
qualms
fervid
24. To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
diffident
adulterate
disinterested
quaff
25. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
superfluous
mitigate
impecunious
recluse
26. Adorn; ornament; enhance - as a story
esoteric
embellish
luminous
metamorphosis
27. To increase in intensity - power - or prestige
tirade
equanimity
aggrandize
discretion
28. Dull; unimaginative
prosaic
beneficent
inimical
meticulous
29. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
saturate
desultory
dogmatic
loquacious
30. An expression of approval or praise
redoubtable
garrulous
approbation
anachronism
31. Change of form
analogous
abscond
hyperbole
metamorphosis
32. To flatter or praise excessively
placate
rhetoric
sporadic
fawn
33. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
endemic
approbation
perennial
spectrum
34. Adherence to highest principles; uprightness
laconic
probity
strut
quixotic
35. Arrogant presumption or pride
substantiate
hubris
probity
fallacy
36. To slight or belittle
impede
disparage
indigence
discrete
37. Acquire; take possession of for one's own use
eloquent
appropriate
frugality
intractable
38. Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
nebulous
forestall
sedulous
ascetic
39. Not harmonious; conflicting
garrulous
pedant
discordant
equanimity
40. Excessive showiness
exculpate
perennial
stigma
ostentation
41. Radiant; shiny; brilliant
fortuitous
euphemism
refulgent
verbose
42. Shut; close
aberrant
permeable
occlude
obtuse
43. To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate
plethora
penury
vituperate
recant
44. Cause; produce
engender
convention
abstain
anachronism
45. Respect - courtesy
emulate
deference
plethora
pungent
46. Public disgrace
venerate
opprobrium
preamble
audacious
47. Recent convert; beginner
axiomatic
pirate
neophyte
negate
48. Playful; humorous
alleviate
facetious
inchoate
viscous
49. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
implacable
abstemious
desiccate
mollify
50. False; misleading
opaque
fallacious
disseminate
contrite