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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. To grow rapidly or flourish
avarice
obsequious
inured
burgeon
2. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
noxious
recant
neophyte
deference
3. Kindly; doing good
beneficent
dogma
queries
malevolent
4. A mournful poem - esp. one lamenting the dead
analogous
decorum
salubrious
elegy
5. Be thrifty; set limits
stint
mollify
equivocate
precipitate
6. Cowardly
querulous
vacillate
loquacious
craven
7. To arouse or incite
foment
catalyst
prodigal
glib
8. Harsh - jarring noise
cacaphony
pith
invective
oscillation
9. Intentional obstruction - esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
embellish
filibuster
obsequious
levity
10. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
stolid
mundane
bombast
abate
11. Practical (as opposed to idealistic)
pragmatic
pristine
irascible
levity
12. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
waver
supplant
viscous
exacerbate
13. Lacking interest or flavor
recondite
halcyon
antipathy
insipid
14. Thicken; congeal; clot
recondite
aggrandize
partisan
coagulate
15. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
unfeigned
parody
relegate
ascetic
16. Pompous speech or expression
skeptic
enumerate
vacillate
grandiloquence
17. Harmless
perfunctory
innocuous
vexation
reproach
18. Departing from norms or conventions
obviate
eccentric
dogmatic
obsequious
19. To lie or deviate from the truth
glib
voracious
rescind
prevaricate
20. Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
relegate
erratic
desiccate
soporific
21. Lack of caring; indifference
sparse
apathy
prohibitive
fulminate
22. Harmful; injurious
eclectic
flout
noxious
endemic
23. Cancel
convoluted
obstinate
transient
rescind
24. Reconciling; soothing
conciliatory
condone
imperturbable
deterrent
25. Combine; unite in one body
occlude
prescience
convention
amalgamate
26. Excessive showiness
credulous
ostentation
inimical
esoteric
27. Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
enumerate
equivocate
condone
supplant
28. Satisfy fully
disjointed
ardor
satiate
refute
29. Projection; superfluous
foment
sordid
extrapolation
disabuse
30. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
squander
ennui
bolster
infelicitous
31. Corresponding in extent - degree - amount - etc.; proportionate
disparage
gainsay
commensurate
pungent
32. Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
imminent
stoic
luminous
salubrious
33. One who feigns illness to escape duty
lucid
malingerer
inimical
porous
34. A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
attenuate
paean
capricious
laud
35. To dry out thoroughly
desiccate
bolster
contrite
endemic
36. Dull; impassive
proscribe
intractable
stolid
impede
37. Great disorder or confusion
gregarious
chaos
lament
tacit
38. To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
solicitous
prevaricate
exigent
grandiloquence
39. To set right; to free from error
buttress
quotidian
trenchant
disabuse
40. Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
engender
verbose
dissonance
contrite
41. Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs
alchemy
plethora
propriety
chicanery
42. Harmless
innocuous
satire
peruse
chicanery
43. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound; dissonance
qualms
pedantic
pious
cacophony
44. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
whimsical
abscond
confound
incorporate
45. Deny
gainsay
anomaly
meticulous
officious
46. Intense and passionate feeling
precipitate
ardor
lucid
facilitate
47. To court favor by a flattering manner
fawn
pristine
efficacy
idolatrous
48. Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm
chicanery
ebullient
extrapolation
warranted
49. To speak in favor of
resolve
commensurate
advocate
plethora
50. Something or someone misplaced in time
caustic
anachronism
hegemony
inert