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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. A mark of shame or discredit
disparate
coda
stigma
contrite
2. Known or understood by only a few
esoteric
empirical
reticent
pedant
3. To increase in intensity - power - or prestige
malleable
aggrandize
queries
problematic
4. Cancel
rescind
striated
burnish
abscond
5. Lie - mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
desiccate
mollify
innocuous
equivocate
6. Riddle; difficult problem
laconic
conundrum
halcyon
banal
7. Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic
austere
diatribe
innocuous
salubrious
8. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
irascible
profligate
guile
subpoena
9. Dealing with - appreciative of - or responsive to art or the beautiful
aesthetic
reverent
pervasive
foment
10. Make express conditions - specify
estimable
stipulate
inimical
sublime
11. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
onerous
compliant
subpoena
mitigate
12. Causing sleep or lethargy
refute
soporific
exonerate
trenchant
13. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
contrite
plasticity
misanthrope
squander
14. Fearless and daring
implacable
log
credulous
audacious
15. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
abscond
fanatical
lament
discrete
16. Cowardly
craven
proliferate
coda
censure
17. A natural predisposition or inclination
viscous
intransigent
ebullience
proclivity
18. Something that discourages; hindrance
fervent
deterrent
disparage
aver
19. The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
tenacity
ingenuous
derivative
convoluted
20. Worship of idols; excessive admiration
fatuous
inherent
dissonance
idolatry
21. Adherence to highest principles; uprightness
pirate
probity
facetious
obdurate
22. Satisfy fully
ameliorate
insipid
insipid
satiate
23. Clear and easily understood
diverge
lucid
banal
ingenuous
24. Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
relegate
austere
recalcitrant
iconoclast
25. Intensely emotional; feverish
vacillate
fervid
sublime
banal
26. Record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities
piety
prolific
frugality
log
27. To publicly praise or promote
stymie
obdurate
ennui
tout
28. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
mollify
endemic
catalyst
prolific
29. Characterized by filth - grime - or squalor; foul
synthesis
craven
sordid
anomaly
30. Learned - scholarly - bookish
chicanery
erudite
sublime
hackneyed
31. Abusive; scolding
maverick
vituperative
enhance
irascible
32. Urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
abyss
homogenous
exigent
discordant
33. Rash; premature; hasty; sudden
effrontery
precipitate
fervor
transient
34. To calm or make less severe
obdurate
belie
mollify
implacable
35. Pompous in speech and manner
preamble
disingenuous
bombastic
convention
36. Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
obdurate
intransigence
platitude
mundane
37. Make unnecessary; get rid of
solvent
desiccate
obviate
dismiss
38. Multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color
abscond
viscous
intransigent
variegated
39. Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
decorum
desultory
soporific
intrepid
40. Wordy
volatile
ardor
erudite
verbose
41. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
unfeigned
occlude
fatuous
waver
42. To overwhelm; to cover with water
extemporaneous
inundate
admonish
flag
43. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
proliferate
dismiss
pine
endemic
44. Trickery or subterfuge
soporific
chicanery
propitiate
erratic
45. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
converge
rancorous
waver
tortuous
46. To combine several elements into a whole
connoisseur
boorish
amalgamate
enigma
47. To make something unpleasant less sever
assuage
strut
sporadic
antipathy
48. Dictatorial in one's opinions
assuage
diffuse
dogmatic
prevaricate
49. Harmless
satiate
innocuous
diatribe
maverick
50. Greatly emotional or zealous
plastic
diatribe
warranted
fervent