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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
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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. A natural predisposition or inclination
diatribe
inchoate
proclivity
discrepancy
2. Disguise; pretend
austere
dissemble
misanthrope
propensity
3. Intended to delay
equivocate
indolent
dilatory
accolade
4. Concerned and attentive; eager
queries
mendacity
anomalous
solicitous
5. Based on observation or experiment
contrite
obstinate
empirical
evanescent
6. Trickery; deception
disparate
vigilant
recant
chicanery
7. To dry out thoroughly
torque
capricious
desiccate
disparate
8. Greed - esp. for wealth
arduous
catalyst
deference
avarice
9. Bitter scolding; invective
ingenuous
diatribe
monotony
appease
10. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
zealous
garrulous
eclectic
probity
11. Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
mitigate
tenuous
aesthetic
castigate
12. Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
dogma
adulterate
obsequious
tirade
13. Changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly
estimable
advocate
volatile
iconoclast
14. To respect deeply
audacious
neologism
venerate
dichotomy
15. An extremely deep hole
untenable
impunity
abyss
implicit
16. Appease
irascible
commensurate
propitiate
audacious
17. A substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing
lucid
probity
indolent
catalyst
18. Quick - keen - or accurate knowledge or insight
acumen
aggrandize
propriety
queries
19. Grow forth; send out buds
burgeon
assuage
probity
sordid
20. The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
impetuous
mundane
hegemony
refute
21. Intimidate; frighten
mercurial
daunt
loquacious
implicit
22. Overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
homogenous
presumptuous
quixotic
sparse
23. Deep; not superficial; complete
abscond
quiescence
profound
obstinate
24. Sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness
soporific
confound
credulous
discern
25. Increase; improve
magnanimity
enhance
laud
diffidence
26. Quarrelsome
avarice
contentious
elegy
maverick
27. To increase in intensity - power - or prestige
aggrandize
inured
assuage
prevaricate
28. Penitent
contrite
hyperbole
superfluous
incipient
29. Basically different; unrelated
approbation
flout
perennial
disparate
30. An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
cogent
facilitate
maverick
equivocate
31. Intense and passionate feeling
pervasive
abscond
quiescent
ardor
32. Pompous walk
implicit
strut
solicitous
censure
33. To overwhelm; to cover with water
misanthrope
inundate
disparage
vex
34. Acting in an indifferent or slow - sluggish manner
craven
ephemeral
lethargic
intransigent
35. Inexperienced
foment
lethargic
esoteric
fledgling
36. Without feeling; imperturbable; stoical
alacrity
impermeable
impassive
placate
37. Useless; hopeless; ineffectual
contrite
stolid
futile
mercurial
38. A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
succinct
guileless
banal
convention
39. Shyness
perfunctory
inchoate
diffidence
censure
40. Projection; superfluous
garrulous
extrapolation
catalyst
contiguous
41. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
desiccate
propensity
zeal
plethora
42. Able to speak clearly and expressively
buttress
torque
squander
articulate
43. To satisfy fully or overindulge
implode
satiate
inured
striated
44. To criticize severely; to officially rebuke
latent
dissolution
sordid
censure
45. Inform
bucolic
pristine
apprise
prohibitive
46. Troubling; burdensome
eclectic
plethora
fulminate
onerous
47. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
hackneyed
loquacious
analogous
metaphor
48. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
elegy
shard
deterrent
fortuitous
49. Causing sleep or lethargy
emollient
ardor
soporific
guileless
50. Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
pervasive
astringent
eulogy
intransigent