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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. A disposition in favor of something; preference
implacable
harangue
amalgamate
predilection
2. Something out of place in time
anachronism
luminous
irascible
salubrious
3. Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
burgeon
recondite
dissonance
porous
4. A piece of broken pottery or glass
shard
intransigent
rarefied
refractory
5. Prevent by taking action in advance
reproach
forestall
soporific
voracious
6. Uncertain; risky
precarious
ephemeral
demur
exonerate
7. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
derision
apathy
ambivalence
soporific
8. Fitness; correct conduct
empirical
noxious
propriety
erudite
9. To grow rapidly or flourish
mollify
acumen
burgeon
placate
10. Revere
venerate
extrapolation
contrite
esoteric
11. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
plethora
prescience
recluse
inconsequential
12. Uncertain how to act; weak
irresolute
recondite
dilate
bombastic
13. Warn; reprove
empirical
admonish
vituperative
morose
14. Soothe
mollify
indolent
satiate
glib
15. Abuse
spendthrift
ostentation
invective
astringent
16. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
precipitate
divest
mitigate
squander
17. To block; thwart
tenuous
stymie
catalyst
deride
18. Polite or appropriate conduct or behavior
soporific
invective
decorum
dormant
19. Make shiny by rubbing; polish
disinterested
contiguous
burnish
rarefied
20. To punish or criticize harshly
castigate
derivative
loquacious
inchoate
21. Overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
terse
dissonance
document
presumptuous
22. Done in a routine way; indifferent
perfunctory
paragon
censure
abate
23. Justified; authorized
zealous
warranted
recant
pungent
24. Given to intense or excessive devotion to something
idolatrous
esoteric
salubrious
ambiguous
25. Having a sour or bitter taste or character
facetious
acerbic
mitigate
zeal
26. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
insipid
enhance
solvent
tenuous
27. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
connoisseur
enervate
ephemeral
burgeon
28. To retract - esp. a previously held belief
disabuse
recant
probity
wary
29. A speech honoring the dead
disparate
beneficent
problematic
eulogy
30. A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony
subpoena
torpor
censure
capricious
31. Droop; grow feeble
chary
presumptuous
recant
flag
32. Hard; strenuous
recalcitrant
specious
vacillate
arduous
33. Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
idolatrous
opprobium
impervious
wary
34. To make worse or more severe
profound
demur
obviate
exacerbate
35. Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
cogent
insinuate
homogenous
gregarious
36. Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
dilettante
problematic
plethora
specious
37. Unpredictable; fickle
capricious
inundate
gouge
cacophony
38. Lack of variation
disinterested
monotony
caustic
disjointed
39. To copy; to try to equal or excel
emulate
secrete
complaisant
satiate
40. Person hardened by sin - devoid of a sense of decency
complaisant
proliferate
reprobate
refulgent
41. Brief and to the point
irascible
perfidy
laconic
prescience
42. Relieve
prattle
alleviate
plastic
metamorphosis
43. Unchangeable
supposition
immutable
reticent
partisan
44. Clear from blame
malevolent
ostentatious
exculpate
onerous
45. Practical (as opposed to idealistic)
convoluted
recant
pragmatic
fallacious
46. Lie
loquacious
prevaricate
vacillate
deference
47. Truthful
veracious
deterrent
burgeon
gullible
48. Lacking coherence
alacrity
mollify
assiduous
disjointed
49. Easily deceived
recondite
penchant
imperturbable
gullible
50. Thicken; congeal; clot
coagulate
dissemble
disabuse
precipitate