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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. Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
opprobium
queries
amalgamate
mitigate
2. Thin; rare; slim
tenuous
meticulous
paradox
diffidence
3. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
anachronism
desultory
discredit
stolid
4. Motionless
tirade
saturate
quiescent
prosaic
5. Person hardened by sin - devoid of a sense of decency
guileless
ameliorate
reprobate
refute
6. Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
mendacity
philanthropy
whimsical
specious
7. Agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction - development - or change
catalyst
tortuous
paragon
castigate
8. Sophisticated; refined; elegant
obdurate
delineate
pristine
urbane
9. Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
opaque
endemic
dogmatic
querulous
10. Not capable of change
canonical
ambiguous
erudite
immutable
11. Bright - brilliant - glowing
effrontery
ennui
discerning
luminous
12. Not capable of being disturbed
chauvinist
imperturbable
eccentric
pervasive
13. Combine; unite in one body
amalgamate
phlegmatic
credulous
rarefy
14. Confuse; puzzle
perspicacious
confound
prodigious
precipitate
15. Passion - excitement
zeal
incorporate
insipid
mollify
16. Attacking cherished traditions
iconoclast
prodigious
specious
prodigal
17. Respect - courtesy
deference
castigation
approbation
catalyst
18. Short-lived; fleeting
ephemeral
piety
sage
hyperbole
19. Precise and brief
grandiloquent
pithy
dichotomy
static
20. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule; abnormality
anomaly
inveigle
pungent
paragon
21. Record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities
log
credulous
alleviate
abyss
22. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
prescience
intractable
mendacious
fervid
23. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
halcyon
canonical
oscillation
plasticity
24. Characterized by bitter - long-lasting resentment
laud
rancorous
spurious
attenuate
25. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
incipient
onerous
obviate
convoluted
26. The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
contentious
abscond
opaque
hegemony
27. Firmly established by nature or habit
inherent
predilection
corroborate
indifferent
28. Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
frugality
bombast
perspicacious
enigmatic
29. Evoking intense aversion or dislike
engender
foment
elegy
odious
30. Having a sour or bitter taste or character
acerbic
hyperbole
abate
catalyst
31. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
discredit
extrapolation
metaphor
mitigate
32. One who spends money wastefully
propensity
diatribe
derivative
spendthrift
33. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
mundane
pious
esoteric
chary
34. To court favor by a flattering manner
audacious
resolution
imperturbable
fawn
35. Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
digression
disingenuous
redoubtable
meticulous
36. Characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled
pristine
implacable
foment
pedantic
37. Something out of place in time
equanimity
recondite
deference
anachronism
38. Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
malinger
prohibitive
amalgamate
anachronism
39. To stop up; to prevent the passage of
impetuous
aggrandize
occlude
discerning
40. Unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly
implode
inadvertently
ephemeral
obviate
41. To copy; to try to equal or excel
garrulous
shard
emulate
refute
42. Approve; ratify
sanction
proliferate
credulous
occlude
43. An expression of praise
veracious
capricious
exigent
accolade
44. To invalidate; to repeal; to retract
permeate
viscous
rescind
obdurate
45. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
trenchant
stigma
recant
exculpate
46. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
decorum
impunity
nascent
garrulous
47. Assert confidently or declare; as used in law - state formally as a fact
disparate
pious
volatile
aver
48. The essential or central part
pith
perfidy
negate
equivocate
49. Excess; overindulgence
surfeit
anomaly
effrontery
avarice
50. Pompous; grandiloquent
bombastic
stigma
pristine
deference