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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. The art or profession of training - teaching - or instructing
pedagogy
exigent
germane
mitigate
2. Short-lived; fleeting
surfeit
lethargic
ephemeral
paucity
3. Excessively decorated or embellished
rarefy
whimsical
fatuous
florid
4. Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
infelicitous
dearth
cogent
inadvertently
5. Weaken
condone
goad
enervate
ardor
6. Enjoy; have a distinctive flavor - smell - or quality
savor
default
pristine
discredit
7. To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
endemic
gullible
resolution
malinger
8. Sociable
axiom
torpid
gregarious
impede
9. Foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals
discredit
embellish
ennui
quixotic
10. Filled with truth and accuracy
perfunctory
fervent
dissolution
veracity
11. To make better or more tolerable
ameliorate
propriety
solvent
metamorphosis
12. Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
malleable
skeptic
strut
imperturbable
13. Showing off learning; bookish
pedantic
imminent
impassive
static
14. Learned; scholarly
decorum
bombast
austere
erudite
15. To disprove; to successfully argue against
archaic
refractory
refute
magnanimity
16. Spread throughout
loquacious
tirade
pervasive
aberrant
17. Sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
occlude
chicanery
gregarious
antipathy
18. Supporting bar
strut
capricious
dogmatic
placate
19. Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
adulterate
mollify
latent
vexation
20. Cancel out; nullify; deny
negate
dupe
alleviate
voracious
21. Convincing
cogent
querulous
disinterested
abscond
22. Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
voracious
dichotomy
maverick
subtle
23. To make worse or more severe
wary
ambivalence
elegy
exacerbate
24. Languor; weariness
divest
lucid
lassitude
dupe
25. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
discerning
mollify
onerous
foment
26. Severe criticism or punishment
assuage
erratic
castigation
irascible
27. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
pirate
pious
solvent
forestall
28. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
prohibitive
obstinate
propitiate
reverent
29. Intimidate; frighten
contiguous
daunt
prodigious
prattle
30. Respect - courtesy
penurious
insinuate
caustic
deference
31. Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
spendthrift
soporific
tortuous
rarefied
32. Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
plastic
veracity
veracious
opaque
33. Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
cacophony
garrulous
adulterate
impetuous
34. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
decorum
convention
equivocate
innocuous
35. Occurring only occasionally - or in scattered instances
opprobrium
sporadic
implacable
subpoena
36. Pertaining to disease
pernicious
impassive
pedant
pathological
37. Rude; insensitive
esoteric
boorish
perfunctory
adulterate
38. To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
prattle
mendacity
presumptuous
assuage
39. Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
volatile
propriety
verbose
lament
40. Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
nebulous
precursor
rescind
astringent
41. Appease
apprise
propitiate
convoluted
obfuscate
42. Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme - unquestioned devotion
burgeon
diffident
lucid
fanatical
43. Impartial and honest in speech
dichotomy
candid
bolster
refulgent
44. Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression
diatribe
tirade
explicit
divulge
45. To choose not to do something
veracity
impede
abstain
dissolution
46. Person competent to act as a judge of art - etc.; a lover of an art
pragmatic
axiom
stint
connoisseur
47. Done in a routine way; indifferent
officious
loquacious
perfunctory
connoisseur
48. Concerning the appreciation of beauty
diatribe
aesthetic
tacit
obviate
49. To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock
pedantic
equanimity
opaque
deride
50. Stubbornly opinionated
lavish
dogmatic
conundrum
arbitrate