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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. Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday
contentious
tirade
conciliatory
mundane
2. A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
fatuous
satire
amenable
infelicitous
3. Tending to believe too readily; gullible
credulous
warranted
shard
iconoclast
4. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
implacable
dogmatic
resolve
inundate
5. Urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention
enervate
exigency
magnanimity
complaisance
6. To slight or belittle
loquacious
disparage
platitude
zealot
7. Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
inveigle
perspicacious
contrite
caustic
8. Refusing to compromise
anarchy
quiescent
intransigent
vituperate
9. Following or in agreement with accepted - traditional standards
futile
canonical
erudite
tirade
10. To make impure
meticulous
conciliatory
hyperbole
adulterate
11. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
capricious
neophyte
connoisseur
insipid
12. Producing large volumes or amounts; productive
prolific
opaque
surfeit
elegy
13. Worried - concerned
solicious
repudiate
imminent
catalyst
14. Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
gullible
fulminate
torpor
intractable
15. Establish by evidence; verify; support
tenuous
substantiate
approbation
waver
16. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
nascent
substantiate
ameliorate
austere
17. Characterized by a strong - sharp smell or taste
truculence
fervor
opprobrium
pungent
18. Acquire; take possession of for one's own use
welter
tenacity
appropriate
exigency
19. Understood; not put into words
lethargic
obstinate
tacit
anomaly
20. Enjoy; have a distinctive flavor - smell - or quality
tortuous
dupe
desiccate
savor
21. Comparable
cacophony
aberrant
analogous
indifferent
22. Languor; weariness
refute
abyss
partisan
lassitude
23. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
ostentatious
enhance
oscillation
prescience
24. Very cautious
banal
belie
wary
meticulous
25. Devotion to pleasurable pursuits - esp. to the pleasures of the senses
pedantic
reticent
adulterate
hedonism
26. To increase in power - influence - and reputation
latent
implacable
aggrandize
opprobrium
27. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
pragmatic
disseminate
condone
goad
28. Unconscious; unresponsive
bucolic
arbitrate
insensible
plethora
29. Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity
craven
volatile
disabuse
levity
30. Unfortunate; inappropriate
veracious
repudiate
infelicitous
discern
31. Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
eulogy
assuage
spectrum
pious
32. Sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
relegate
effrontery
gregarious
obstinate
33. A person who dislikes others
misanthrope
inchoate
precipitate
whimsical
34. Rebel; nonconformist
quiescent
archaic
maverick
austere
35. Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
arduous
impervious
contrite
quaff
36. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
abscond
austere
anomaly
soporific
37. Complex or complicated
subtle
mitigate
alacrity
convoluted
38. Implied; not explicitly stated
implacable
tacit
impetuous
anomalous
39. Improve
furtive
truculence
ameliorate
plastic
40. Introductory statement
pedagogy
preamble
document
facilitate
41. Overly submissive and eager to please
exculpate
obsequious
banal
desiccate
42. The combination of parts to make a whole
pervasive
synthesis
sanction
torpor
43. Clear and easily understood
lucid
intransigent
arduous
vex
44. Person competent to act as a judge of art - etc.; a lover of an art
gregarious
equivocate
connoisseur
credulous
45. Poem or song expressing lamentation
elegy
prosaic
eloquent
penchant
46. To make thinner or sparser
intrepid
obdurate
rarefy
malleable
47. Extreme dislike
archaic
verbose
flout
antipathy
48. Silent - not talkative
innocuous
taciturn
metamorphosis
cogent
49. Inclined to prevent or forbid
burgeon
insensible
prohibitive
anachronism
50. Quick - keen - or accurate knowledge or insight
ameliorate
obdurate
acumen
paragon