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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. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
alleviate
nascent
explicit
obsequious
2. Worried - concerned
ennui
ameliorate
solicious
aggregate
3. Poem or song expressing lamentation
efficacy
desiccate
elegy
diffuse
4. Characterized by a strong - sharp smell or taste
pragmatic
supplant
pungent
aberrant
5. A piece of broken pottery or glass
shard
tirade
ephemeral
ebullience
6. To court favor by a flattering manner
axiomatic
neologism
adulterate
fawn
7. To defame; to characterize harshly
viable
enhance
vilify
oscillate
8. Damaging; harmful; injurious
alacrity
inimical
sordid
torpor
9. Impervious; not permitting passage through its substance
exigency
impermeable
whimsical
immutable
10. Extremely careful about details
endemic
mitigate
meticulous
resolve
11. Artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful
fulminate
flout
ascetic
aesthetic
12. To forcibly assign - esp. to a lower place or position
relegate
dilettante
eulogy
contention
13. To make worse or more severe
exacerbate
empirical
acerbic
inadvertently
14. To sway physically; to be indecisive
hubris
adulterate
renege
vacillate
15. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
beneficent
rhetoric
decorum
exacerbate
16. Precise and brief
eulogy
iconoclast
pithy
astringent
17. To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
prevaricate
stipulate
grandiloquence
dilettante
18. Abnormal; irregular
savor
anomalous
fulminate
penchant
19. Excessive showiness
phlegmatic
ostentation
innocuous
trenchant
20. Able to speak clearly and expressively
articulate
nebulous
burgeon
catalyst
21. To conciliate; to appease
amalgamate
propitiate
tirade
evanescent
22. Talkative
embellish
pungent
virulent
loquacious
23. Strip; deprive
amalgamate
occlude
divest
convention
24. To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
chicanery
intransigence
loquacious
dupe
25. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
nebulous
impervious
welter
propensity
26. Change of form
metamorphosis
embellish
odious
diatribe
27. Thick; sticky
specious
accolade
viscous
approbation
28. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
pervade
rarefy
indigence
futile
29. Extremely talkative
loquacious
cogent
extemporaneous
stupefy
30. Forerunner; harbinger
monotony
paean
precursor
gregarious
31. Of a similar kind
pious
esoteric
laconic
homogenous
32. Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
hackneyed
propriety
perennial
dissonance
33. A harsh and disagreeable combination - often of sounds
bolster
reproach
plethora
dissonance
34. To grow rapidly or flourish
transient
burgeon
frugality
apathy
35. Scarcity
canon
paucity
misanthrope
reverent
36. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
platitude
connoisseur
dissolution
supplant
37. Wandering and unpredictable
mollify
catalyst
extrapolation
erratic
38. Winding; full of curves
tortuous
intransigent
martial
platitude
39. Wasteful; reckless with money
austere
prodigal
strut
disseminate
40. Corresponding in extent - degree - amount - etc.; proportionate
recondite
commensurate
implode
anachronism
41. Effective writing or speaking
specious
rancorous
repudiate
rhetoric
42. One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
dilettante
alleviate
reticent
indifferent
43. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
prevaricate
precipitate
profligate
quixotic
44. Practicing self-denial; austere
proliferate
ascetic
phlegmatic
equivocate
45. Exonerate; to clear of blame
deride
axiomatic
exculpate
disabuse
46. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
substantiate
equanimity
specious
irascible
47. Introductory statement
iconoclast
pirate
disabuse
preamble
48. Thicken; congeal; clot
inimical
luminous
pedant
coagulate
49. Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
supersede
whimsical
grandiloquent
exacerbate
50. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
antipathy
anomaly
spendthrift
tirade