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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Urge on
austere
levee
goad
ennui
2. Satisfy fully
pervasive
daunt
incongruity
satiate
3. To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
proliferate
dupe
aggrandize
mundane
4. Characterized by a strong - sharp smell or taste
garrulous
misanthrope
inchoate
pungent
5. Healthful
contentious
fawn
convoluted
salubrious
6. A person who dislikes others
penurious
incongruity
mitigate
misanthrope
7. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
dissemble
germane
tirade
eloquent
8. Disprove
inconsequential
placate
germane
refute
9. Someone easily fooled
discredit
dupe
extrapolation
arduous
10. To undeceive; to set right
inert
indigence
boorish
disabuse
11. Thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals
aggrandize
sparse
strut
fawning
12. The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
mendacity
implacable
engender
rarefied
13. Basically different; unrelated
euphemism
disparate
insipid
demur
14. To punish or criticize harshly
mollify
perfunctory
castigate
latent
15. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
exonerate
castigation
vituperate
prescience
16. Shyness
diffidence
implacable
stolid
antipathy
17. Easily deceived
truculent
intrepid
eccentric
gullible
18. Hostile - unfriendly
inimical
viscous
facetious
shard
19. Vary; go in different directions from the same point
diverge
attenuate
germane
truculent
20. Imitate; rival
vilify
stymie
supposition
emulate
21. Not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
intractable
buttress
malinger
enigma
22. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
inconsequential
reticent
taciturn
axiomatic
23. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
pedagogy
unfeigned
desiccate
repudiate
24. Adherence to highest principles; uprightness
implicit
bombastic
probity
malinger
25. To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
transgression
dupe
equivocate
lament
26. Dry up
ingenuous
dogmatic
desiccate
vituperate
27. To disprove; to successfully argue against
refute
efficacy
obdurate
nascent
28. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
striated
beneficent
luminous
esoteric
29. Fearless and daring
viable
audacious
intractable
assuage
30. Colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
dilatory
pragmatic
spectrum
exculpate
31. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
reprobate
strut
digression
decorum
32. Recent convert; beginner
veracious
contention
neophyte
sordid
33. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
deterrent
pine
amenable
piety
34. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
esoteric
disabuse
tirade
luminous
35. Pompous; grandiloquent
adulterate
bombastic
sparse
profound
36. Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density - force - degree)
pedantic
caustic
attenuate
subside
37. To sooth or pacify
placate
fulminate
ingenuous
frugality
38. Provide written evidence
spectrum
savor
document
succinct
39. Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
burnish
implacable
soporific
latent
40. Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
squalid
warranted
inchoate
voracious
41. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
imperturbable
mundane
adulterate
cynicism
42. Intensely emotional; feverish
contrite
fervid
germane
buttress
43. Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
pernicious
paradox
pious
antipathy
44. Shining; issuing light
mercurial
luminous
peruse
spurious
45. False; misleading
vex
fallacious
apprise
contention
46. Learned - scholarly - bookish
disseminate
erudite
penurious
aggrandize
47. To produce - cause - or bring about
chaos
engender
germane
vex
48. Beginning to come into being or to become apparent
iconoclast
prescience
torpor
incipient
49. Rash; premature; hasty; sudden
enigmatic
precipitate
perfidy
eulogy
50. To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
torpor
dissemble
audacious
aesthetic