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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. Dry up
desiccate
tout
anarchy
vacillate
2. False; misleading
fallacious
indeterminate
implode
satiate
3. To drink deeply
quaff
placate
viable
disparate
4. Brief; fleeting
anachronism
convoluted
rarefy
ephemeral
5. Wasteful; reckless with money
ardor
prodigal
presumptuous
propitiate
6. Tending to believe too readily; gullible
capricious
credulous
burgeon
pith
7. Pacify or soothe; relieve
appease
refulgent
solicious
reticent
8. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
derision
dupe
castigation
querulous
9. Sociable
implacable
ephemeral
gregarious
aesthetic
10. To punish or criticize harshly
castigate
eloquent
lucid
mendacity
11. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
meticulous
recalcitrant
sanction
forestall
12. To leave secretly
evanescent
commensurate
abscond
verbose
13. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
ameliorate
artless
pine
chicanery
14. Satisfy fully
satiate
viscous
discerning
spectrum
15. A harsh and disagreeable combination - often of sounds
heretical
neologism
dissonance
prodigal
16. Unconscious; unresponsive
dismiss
insensible
stigma
heretical
17. Departing from norms or conventions
invective
laud
occlude
eccentric
18. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
perfunctory
pedantic
equivocate
fallacy
19. Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
profuse
articulate
contrite
stigma
20. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
frugality
tirade
dogmatic
discordant
21. Recent convert; beginner
impede
neophyte
whimsical
ostentatious
22. Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
banal
enervate
erudite
impetuous
23. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
solicious
insensible
repudiate
quotidian
24. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional)
prodigal
specious
reticent
exculpate
25. Claim; thesis
succinct
credulous
contention
garrulous
26. To undeceive; to set right
impervious
inchoate
dogma
disabuse
27. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
prevaricate
cynicism
antagonize
relegate
28. Pompous in speech and manner
stigma
abstemious
bombastic
caustic
29. Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
desultory
piety
elicit
discordant
30. Severe poverty; stinginess
plasticity
desiccate
phlegmatic
penury
31. Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
diffidence
disparate
paean
occlude
32. Brief; concise
succinct
equanimity
dogma
disinterested
33. Potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
culpable
fervent
latent
fledgling
34. Tending to talk a lot
enervate
goad
archaic
garrulous
35. To anticipate and make unnecessary
stigma
aberrant
obviate
occlude
36. Stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
diffident
savor
quiescence
derivative
37. Lasting a short time
flout
vacillate
ephemeral
penchant
38. Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
obtuse
tortuous
disabuse
loquacious
39. Model of perfection
obviate
paragon
quiescent
condone
40. Long - passionate - and vehement speech
flag
lucid
dirge
harangue
41. Effectiveness
disparate
efficacy
supplant
impecunious
42. A disposition in favor of something; preference
elegy
foment
predilection
attenuate
43. Done without using words
dupe
tirade
aggrandize
tacit
44. Intimidate; frighten
perennial
erudite
daunt
recalcitrant
45. Greatly emotional or zealous
proliferate
fervent
iconoclast
artless
46. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
gregarious
coagulate
waver
desiccate
47. Motionless
disinterested
transient
quiescent
connoisseur
48. Fleeting; passing quickly; brief
hyperbole
verbose
transient
urbane
49. Brief and to the point
recant
laconic
opprobrium
eclectic
50. Prevent by taking action in advance
garrulous
forestall
laud
impermeable