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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. Hermit; loner
recluse
enervate
assuage
flout
2. Long - harsh speech or verbal attack
dissemble
diatribe
goad
tirade
3. To stun - baffle - or amaze
exonerate
iconoclast
stupefy
gainsay
4. An extremely deep hole
malevolent
perfunctory
dogmatic
abyss
5. One who hates all other humans
luminous
assuage
misanthrope
dismiss
6. Fall sharply
abeyance
pervasive
succinct
plummet
7. Apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
felicitous
neophyte
filibuster
torque
8. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
deference
disabuse
luminous
disparage
9. Sharp and irritating to the senses
torque
substantiate
imperturbable
pungent
10. Poem or song expressing lamentation
reverent
elegy
proliferate
virulent
11. Base on experience
prohibitive
foment
ambivalence
empirical
12. To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
desiccate
tenuous
facilitate
aesthetic
13. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
caustic
insipid
conundrum
tenuous
14. A mark of shame or discredit
conundrum
recondite
stigma
penurious
15. Intentional breach of faith; treachery
maverick
perfidy
prevaricate
sporadic
16. Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic
parody
stymie
austere
recalcitrant
17. A person or thing that causes change
default
satiate
catalyst
impervious
18. Strip; deprive
divest
distill
voracious
oscillate
19. Arrogant presumption or pride
anomalous
intransigent
hubris
inimical
20. Excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous
foment
meticulous
harangue
luminous
21. Pertaining to disease
eccentric
divulge
pathological
exculpate
22. Tending to talk a lot
squander
garrulous
decorum
lucid
23. Droop; grow feeble
discredit
striated
flag
dogmatic
24. Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
penurious
ephemeral
sanction
apathy
25. A new word - expression - or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
neologism
volatile
waver
fawning
26. Producing large volumes or amounts; productive
iconoclast
welter
prolific
veracious
27. Overly submissive and eager to please
magnanimity
obsequious
compliant
spendthrift
28. Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
intrepid
capricious
philanthropy
equanimity
29. Practical as opposed to idealistic
pragmatic
sage
stipulate
penury
30. Healthful
tacit
reverent
stigma
salubrious
31. Overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
pedantic
presumptuous
proclivity
dissonance
32. To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
phlegmatic
perfunctory
putrefy
insularity
33. Harmless
innocuous
lethargic
pervasive
rhetoric
34. Confuse; puzzle
anomaly
confound
elegy
beneficent
35. Dull; unimaginative
obfuscate
axiomatic
dilate
prosaic
36. Intensely emotional; feverish
hyperbole
fervid
penury
prolific
37. Urge on
decorum
dupe
goad
diverge
38. Split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
chauvinist
dichotomy
repudiate
reproach
39. Pompous walk
inured
paucity
vacillate
strut
40. Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
subpoena
lethargic
dearth
discredit
41. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
euphemism
acerbic
elicit
dilettante
42. Worried - concerned
rescind
solicious
embellish
facilitate
43. Stubbornly opinionated
disparate
substantiate
dogmatic
connoisseur
44. Abusive; scolding
enervate
dupe
vituperative
precursor
45. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
analogous
trenchant
exonerate
sparse
46. To undeceive; to set right
eulogy
disabuse
prattle
apathy
47. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
amenable
sanction
abscond
exacerbate
48. Pompous speech or expression
vex
iconoclast
grandiloquence
fawn
49. Calm; sluggish; unemotional
alchemy
quiescent
phlegmatic
facilitate
50. Aversion; dislike
precursor
tenuous
predilection
antipathy