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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. Not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
prevaricate
chicanery
intractable
presumptuous
2. Approve; ratify
sporadic
aberrant
perennial
sanction
3. One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
laconic
chary
adulation
iconoclast
4. Using few words; terse
quiescent
alleviate
laconic
vexation
5. To conciliate; to appease
propitiate
rarefy
corroborate
imminent
6. To praise highly
disabuse
profuse
innocuous
laud
7. Settle down; descend; grow quiet
inert
dissonance
paragon
subside
8. Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
innocuous
pious
laud
subtle
9. To make larger; to expand
dilate
lament
connoisseur
distill
10. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
pedantic
audacious
metamorphosis
malingerer
11. Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity
levity
decorum
sedulous
subside
12. Rash; premature; hasty; sudden
disseminate
preamble
preen
precipitate
13. Base on experience
paragon
soporific
empirical
mercurial
14. Eager and enthusiastic willingness
decorum
alacrity
viscous
mitigate
15. Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
stoic
desultory
burnish
grandiloquence
16. To undeceive; to set right
disabuse
warranted
exculpate
vexation
17. Marked with parallel bands; grooved
stymie
tirade
striated
vacillate
18. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
aesthetic
contrite
profligate
erudite
19. Change of form
precipitate
metamorphosis
synthesis
vacillate
20. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
mollify
mitigate
supersede
anomaly
21. Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
contiguous
obviate
torpor
propriety
22. Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs
distill
propriety
cacaphony
recalcitrant
23. Radiant; shiny; brilliant
perennial
refulgent
fawn
eulogy
24. To make better; to improve
dormant
ameliorate
audacious
ambiguous
25. Appease
digression
diatribe
propitiate
ingenuous
26. To provide supporting evidence
strut
corroborate
renege
abscond
27. Intense and passionate feeling
homogenous
austere
ardor
lavish
28. Wordy
verbose
endemic
trenchant
precarious
29. Of the same kind
reverent
prudence
neophyte
homogenous
30. Tending to believe too readily; gullible
luminous
audacious
demur
credulous
31. Limited; restricted
discretion
qualified
compliant
gouge
32. Strip; deprive
divest
cynicism
volatile
impair
33. Exaggeration; overstatement
hyperbole
empirical
inured
iconoclast
34. Sociable
gregarious
fallacious
neophyte
austere
35. An extremely deep hole
abyss
stipulate
sanction
porous
36. Excess; overabundance
abate
plethora
placate
chary
37. Reject; mock; show contempt for
filibuster
flout
subside
soporific
38. Characterized by filth - grime - or squalor; foul
sordid
dogma
implicit
loquacious
39. Urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention
exigency
luminous
desiccate
approbation
40. Concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that summarizes
advocate
penchant
erudite
coda
41. To cause or happen before anticipated or required
specious
fervid
stipulate
precipitate
42. Tending to talk a lot
salubrious
catalyst
garrulous
transgression
43. Spread throughout
capricious
coagulate
sparse
pervasive
44. Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
efficacy
qualified
dilate
secrete
45. Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
quiescent
austere
noxious
luminous
46. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
welter
cogent
proliferate
neophyte
47. Excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous
solicious
extrapolation
ostentation
meticulous
48. Model of excellence or perfection
paragon
inured
erudite
hedonism
49. Improve
chicanery
penurious
ameliorate
dogmatic
50. Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
zeal
sage
discretion
pristine