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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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Subjects
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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. Acting in an indifferent or slow - sluggish manner
insensible
inadvertently
lethargic
bombastic
2. Rebel; nonconformist
pathological
effrontery
onerous
maverick
3. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
abstain
ebullience
convoluted
exculpate
4. Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
abate
arduous
obdurate
noxious
5. To reduce in amount - degree - or severity
assuage
abate
abstemious
tortuous
6. To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
noxious
engender
adulterate
alacrity
7. A mark of shame or discredit
spendthrift
stigma
inchoate
lavish
8. Deviating from the norm
aberrant
felicitous
chicanery
elegy
9. Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
indolent
amalgamate
pious
antagonize
10. Wandering and unpredictable
intransigent
erratic
officious
paucity
11. To cause or happen before anticipated or required
quiescent
delineate
prohibitive
precipitate
12. Claim; thesis
document
disabuse
contention
flout
13. Token of disgrace; brand
impervious
shard
stigma
volatile
14. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
enumerate
indeterminate
sanction
putrefy
15. A person or thing that causes change
catalyst
misanthrope
torpid
specious
16. Suspended action
specious
inadvertently
abeyance
qualms
17. Eliminate from consideration; reject
dismiss
impunity
intransigent
disparate
18. To increase in intensity - power - or prestige
recant
corroborate
aggrandize
inured
19. Power to produce desired effect
mitigate
efficacy
laconic
irascible
20. Satisfy fully
elegy
satiate
axiom
dirge
21. Pompous; using inflated language
imperturbable
bolster
precarious
bombastic
22. To disclose something secret
parody
frugality
divulge
stigma
23. Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread
innocuous
viscous
castigate
ubiquitous
24. Intense and passionate feeling
ardor
specious
heretical
garrulous
25. Cancel
rescind
coda
problematic
extemporaneous
26. Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
whimsical
proliferate
loquacious
spendthrift
27. Naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated
ingenuous
complaisant
deride
ardor
28. To obstruct or block
hubris
diatribe
intransigent
occlude
29. Easily deceived
perennial
gullible
flout
tenuous
30. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
insipid
endemic
incongruity
sublime
31. Too trusting; gullible
refute
obsequious
rescind
credulous
32. To lessen in intensity or degree
abyss
articulate
repudiate
abate
33. Indifferent; free from self-interest
presumptuous
austere
gullible
disinterested
34. Violating accepted dogma or convention
viscous
pernicious
saturate
heretical
35. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
gainsay
ameliorate
pragmatic
condone
36. A harsh and disagreeable combination - often of sounds
dissonance
recondite
buttress
querulous
37. Troubling; burdensome
deference
disparate
discrete
onerous
38. Excess
aver
abscond
viscous
plethora
39. Scarcity
convention
equivocate
paucity
dissemble
40. Sticky - gluey
gullible
viscous
archaic
pedagogy
41. To invalidate; to repeal; to retract
axiomatic
rescind
converge
virulent
42. Wary; cautious; sparing
amalgamate
perfidy
precarious
chary
43. Immunity from punishment or penalty
stigma
impunity
volatile
alleviate
44. Full of pores; like a sieve
wary
porous
pervasive
verbose
45. Devoutness; reverence for God
piety
bombastic
officious
ebullience
46. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
peruse
tortuous
daunt
euphemism
47. Combine; unite in one body
amalgamate
placate
dichotomy
anachronism
48. To annoy or provoke to anger
antagonize
pirate
implacable
craven
49. To examine with great care
intransigent
dogmatic
implacable
peruse
50. Waver; fluctuate
loquacious
striated
vacillate
vigilant