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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. Improvised; done without preparation
diatribe
specious
extemporaneous
precursor
2. One who feigns illness to escape duty
rancorous
soporific
propriety
malingerer
3. Associated with war and the armed forces
martial
imperturbable
explicit
pervasive
4. Lack of variation
compendium
monotony
misanthrope
alacrity
5. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
fatuous
negate
garrulous
ascetic
6. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view
skeptic
censure
aver
inert
7. Droop; grow feeble
verbose
flag
levity
laud
8. Hint; imply; creep in
ebullient
insinuate
disabuse
lament
9. To examine with great care
peruse
incorporate
ennui
penurious
10. Done without using words
subside
enigmatic
aesthetic
tacit
11. One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
apathy
subpoena
castigation
iconoclast
12. Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
vacillate
laud
recondite
peruse
13. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
torpor
credulous
distend
pine
14. To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
putrefy
truculent
soporific
impassive
15. Sociable
sparse
apathy
naive
gregarious
16. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
pious
germane
discrete
rarefied
17. Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
dogmatic
fawn
irresolute
magnanimity
18. Imitate; rival
sparse
burgeon
emulate
discretion
19. Fearless and daring
audacious
loquacious
adulation
adulterate
20. Calm and peaceful
opprobrium
halcyon
wary
sanction
21. Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
audacious
equanimity
indolent
tenuous
22. To make worse
alleviate
impermeable
exacerbate
acumen
23. To make thinner or sparser
impede
rarefy
appease
discordant
24. Burst inward
disabuse
implode
artless
dilatory
25. Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in several ways
crescendo
subside
ambiguous
culpable
26. Aggressiveness; ferocity
permeable
equivocate
truculence
mollify
27. Controversial; argumentative
polemical
predilection
maverick
permeable
28. Clear; easily understood
empirical
lucid
propriety
abstemious
29. Clear from blame
exculpate
resolution
digression
adulation
30. Fragment; generally of pottery
perfunctory
subtle
shard
partisan
31. Showing off learning; bookish
pedantic
problematic
occlude
mundane
32. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
cogent
torpid
caustic
chaos
33. Burning; sarcastically biting
efficacy
caustic
incorporate
adulterate
34. To plunge or drop straight down
plummet
confound
pristine
artless
35. To combine several elements into a whole
lassitude
amalgamate
obdurate
insensible
36. Characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled
quibble
chicanery
pristine
naive
37. Daring; bold
apathy
audacious
pungent
impassive
38. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound; dissonance
aggregate
cacophony
salubrious
denigrate
39. Languor; weariness
paradox
hubris
flout
lassitude
40. To fluctuate between choices
supplant
waver
recant
convoluted
41. Deny
recluse
gainsay
crescendo
phlegmatic
42. Worship of idols; excessive admiration
elegy
opaque
latent
idolatry
43. Cause; produce
propitiate
engender
fatuous
viscous
44. Soak thoroughly
pervasive
boorish
salubrious
saturate
45. Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
irascible
paucity
pervasive
complaisance
46. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
gullible
fallacy
indeterminate
divest
47. Coiled around; involved; intricate
convoluted
viable
lucid
placate
48. To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
vacillate
profound
castigate
desiccate
49. Dull; unimaginative
prohibitive
prosaic
resolution
enigmatic
50. Without guile; open and honest
ingenuous
artless
prodigious
obviate