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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. Reject; mock; show contempt for
flout
guile
mitigate
rarefy
2. Trickery; deception
chicanery
prodigal
beneficent
grandiloquent
3. Impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
propitiate
equivocate
erudite
impervious
4. Excess
urbane
appropriate
tangential
plethora
5. Fervent; ardent; impassioned
mollify
zealous
grandiloquent
inveigle
6. Willing to betray one's trust
perfidious
aesthetic
tacit
elicit
7. Hinder - block
peruse
vituperative
impede
rescind
8. Able to speak clearly and expressively
diatribe
specious
corroborate
articulate
9. Arrogant; taking liberties
presumptuous
fervent
aesthetic
untenable
10. A sorrowful poem or speech
taciturn
reverent
diatribe
elegy
11. Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
profligate
specious
arduous
glib
12. Colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
spectrum
erudite
contiguous
audacious
13. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
endemic
laud
felicitous
condone
14. Occurring irregularly
sporadic
ambiguous
eclectic
derision
15. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
abate
sage
equivocate
enigmatic
16. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
adulation
meticulous
dogmatic
tenuous
17. To stun - baffle - or amaze
erudite
stupefy
platitude
guile
18. Corresponding in extent - degree - amount - etc.; proportionate
dichotomy
document
stoic
commensurate
19. Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
tirade
malinger
misanthrope
pungent
20. Full of pores; like a sieve
stipulate
discredit
porous
stint
21. In an initial stage; not fully formed
inchoate
proscribe
levee
prolific
22. Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
appropriate
disparate
hedonism
adulation
23. Disprove
negate
refute
magnanimity
invective
24. Wasteful; reckless with money
prodigal
impetuous
decorum
inert
25. Combine; unite in one body
amalgamate
imperturbable
vigilant
antagonize
26. Long - passionate - and vehement speech
specious
salubrious
harangue
morose
27. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
qualms
connoisseur
obdurate
imperturbable
28. Dictatorial in one's opinions
aesthetic
frugality
bombast
dogmatic
29. To make impure
ephemeral
onerous
dormant
adulterate
30. Sad; sullen; melancholy
dogmatic
morose
terse
inured
31. Diligent
noxious
assiduous
prudence
boorish
32. Token of disgrace; brand
insipid
equivocate
stigma
daunt
33. Intense and passionate feeling
aggrandize
meticulous
ardor
attenuate
34. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
proliferate
abstemious
diffuse
intransigent
35. To leave secretly
luminous
equivocate
ascetic
abscond
36. Hypothesis; surmise
levity
satiate
supposition
implacable
37. To disclose something secret
apathy
extemporaneous
divulge
inchoate
38. Intensely emotional; feverish
fervid
paucity
florid
lucid
39. Dealing with - appreciative of - or responsive to art or the beautiful
perfunctory
fallacious
imperturbable
aesthetic
40. Intimidate; frighten
daunt
chauvinist
complaisant
permeate
41. Admirable
dissemble
estimable
dissemble
exculpate
42. Correct a false impression; undeceive
dupe
disabuse
axiomatic
derision
43. Cursory; done without care or interest
refulgent
perfunctory
specious
transitory
44. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
tortuous
coda
aberrant
eclectic
45. Uncertain how to act; weak
irresolute
trenchant
laud
repudiate
46. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
grandiloquent
waver
adulation
pernicious
47. A mournful poem - esp. one lamenting the dead
reverent
elegy
subside
abeyance
48. Controversial; argumentative
disparate
chauvinist
aberrant
polemical
49. Power to produce desired effect
fallacious
efficacy
prosaic
demur
50. Brief and to the point
itinerary
laconic
tout
complaisance