SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Very cautious
wary
taciturn
burgeon
opaque
2. Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
gainsay
analogous
efficacy
disingenuous
3. Unfortunate; inappropriate
infelicitous
tacit
sanction
lavish
4. To praise highly
guileless
noxious
levee
laud
5. Diligent
vacillate
reticent
discern
assiduous
6. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
penchant
solvent
sordid
chary
7. Excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous
meticulous
buttress
enigmatic
plethora
8. Following or in agreement with accepted - traditional standards
ingenuous
exigent
foment
canonical
9. Portray; depict; sketch
idolatry
delineate
convention
converge
10. To judge a dispute between two opposing parties
arbitrate
luminous
ebullient
ameliorate
11. Quick - keen - or accurate knowledge or insight
ambiguous
tacit
derision
acumen
12. Firmly established by nature or habit
incorporate
inherent
gouge
complaisant
13. Concerning the appreciation of beauty
reticent
aesthetic
dichotomy
recalcitrant
14. Cause; produce
exacerbate
desiccate
malleable
engender
15. Disown; disavow
repudiate
ebullience
disabuse
vilify
16. To reject the validity of
dogmatic
discordant
repudiate
impunity
17. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
mitigate
intractable
profligate
derision
18. Fragment; generally of pottery
shard
veracious
diatribe
occlude
19. Fleeting; passing quickly; brief
veracious
transient
pungent
platitude
20. Departing from norms or conventions
eccentric
sanction
contentious
approbation
21. Accustomed; hardened
inured
exonerate
efficacy
flag
22. Lavish - wasteful
prodigal
ingenuous
disparage
artless
23. Penitent
contrite
burgeon
skeptic
articulate
24. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
perspicacious
amalgamate
crescendo
oscillation
25. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
whimsical
reticent
disinterested
esoteric
26. Vibrate pendulumlike; waver
volatile
gregarious
oscillate
explicit
27. Sharp and irritating to the senses
mitigate
laud
pungent
rarefy
28. Model of perfection
default
paragon
squander
alleviate
29. Speech in praise of someone
salubrious
eulogy
prodigal
refulgent
30. Precise and brief
pithy
endemic
rhetoric
irresolute
31. Hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
banal
adulation
caustic
euphemism
32. Loquacious; wordy; talkative
garrulous
anarchy
eccentric
surfeit
33. Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
disparate
pragmatic
presumptuous
onerous
34. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
obviate
axiomatic
insularity
adulterate
35. Split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
dichotomy
cynicism
virulent
platitude
36. Intended to delay
dilatory
quiescent
disabuse
rarefy
37. Practical (as opposed to idealistic)
arbitrate
eulogy
innocuous
pragmatic
38. Natural inclination
propensity
laconic
whimsical
warranted
39. Capable of being shaped
condone
canonical
malleable
tacit
40. Scarcity
rescind
disinterested
paucity
digression
41. To retract - esp. a previously held belief
skeptic
discrepancy
recant
laconic
42. A natural predisposition or inclination
proclivity
frugality
abstain
taciturn
43. Occurring only occasionally - or in scattered instances
irascible
engender
sporadic
extemporaneous
44. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
laud
laud
coagulate
querulous
45. Violation of a law; sin
castigate
admonish
transgression
foment
46. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
anachronism
waver
tirade
impair
47. The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
plethora
lavish
document
mendacity
48. Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
anachronism
sporadic
veracity
perfidious
49. Something that discourages; hindrance
buttress
credulous
felicitous
deterrent
50. To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate
queries
vituperate
furtive
ostentatious