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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. Excessive showiness
stipulate
ostentation
discern
truculent
2. Something that discourages; hindrance
stymie
frugality
conundrum
deterrent
3. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
peruse
tenuous
ingenuous
inchoate
4. Hint; imply; creep in
lavish
imperturbable
insinuate
fawn
5. Weaken
acumen
impervious
complaisant
enervate
6. Unpredictable; fickle
fledgling
articulate
goad
capricious
7. Token of disgrace; brand
castigation
relegate
discrepancy
stigma
8. Aggressiveness; ferocity
plastic
truculence
prescience
dissemble
9. Evoking intense aversion or dislike
opaque
phlegmatic
disabuse
odious
10. Thin; rare; slim
tenuous
dupe
emulate
quiescent
11. Intense and passionate feeling
ameliorate
engender
veracity
ardor
12. A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
homogenous
mendacity
convention
analogous
13. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
volatile
penchant
sanction
alleviate
14. To defame; to characterize harshly
vilify
discordant
secrete
engender
15. Playful; humorous
facetious
vigilant
repudiate
laud
16. Public disgrace
opprobrium
stigma
pervasive
fallacious
17. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
ambivalence
irascible
delineate
fawn
18. Overcharge
buttress
squalid
eulogy
gouge
19. Able to speak clearly and expressively
articulate
erratic
innocuous
florid
20. Plan of a trip
impede
proscribe
disabuse
itinerary
21. Practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
capricious
specious
impunity
viable
22. To calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity
innocuous
abate
monotony
mollify
23. Exonerate; to clear of blame
exculpate
axiom
delineate
viable
24. Impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
obviate
occlude
empirical
impervious
25. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
vigilant
profuse
deterrent
proliferate
26. Ill-humored; sullen; melancholy
morose
beneficent
secrete
hegemony
27. To make impure
proliferate
strut
adulterate
fervid
28. To remove blame
chauvinist
exonerate
esoteric
truculent
29. Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality - region - or people
recant
inadvertently
germane
endemic
30. Without feeling; imperturbable; stoical
trenchant
impassive
pragmatic
cacophony
31. Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
guileless
opaque
prevaricate
proscribe
32. Strip; deprive
capricious
burnish
divest
effrontery
33. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
precursor
disparate
penchant
complaisant
34. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
ingenuous
quiescence
truculent
proclivity
35. Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
pervade
inchoate
strut
abstemious
36. Not fully formed; disorganized
exculpate
inchoate
bombast
burgeon
37. Firmly established by nature or habit
inherent
prodigious
problematic
log
38. Wordy
viscous
meticulous
verbose
lament
39. Approval
abscond
approbation
negate
catalyst
40. One who feigns illness to escape duty
conciliatory
mendacious
malingerer
tout
41. Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
banal
impetuous
bucolic
impervious
42. Effectiveness
efficacy
zealous
abstain
implode
43. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
dogmatic
exacerbate
insipid
voracious
44. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive - time
partisan
dissemble
archaic
desultory
45. Penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
connoisseur
permeable
mollify
obdurate
46. Meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services
itinerary
officious
inveigle
specious
47. Convincing
penury
skeptic
vilify
cogent
48. Sharp and irritating to the senses
admonish
pungent
paragon
pine
49. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
solvent
volatile
urbane
artless
50. Following or in agreement with accepted - traditional standards
canonical
neophyte
disparage
propitiate