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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. Disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error
felicitous
recant
lassitude
idolatry
2. Something that brings about a change in something else
disabuse
catalyst
transgression
abscond
3. Practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
untenable
derision
obdurate
viable
4. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
pervasive
soporific
pine
bombastic
5. Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
reticent
exculpate
laud
platitude
6. To disguise or conceal; to mislead
idolatry
dilate
dissemble
rhetoric
7. To provide support or reinforcement
bolster
boorish
pedagogy
ephemeral
8. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
insipid
capricious
qualms
erudite
9. Intentional obstruction - esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
filibuster
enervate
diatribe
quiescence
10. Dry up
meticulous
plethora
desiccate
hubris
11. Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
discern
flout
torpor
vituperative
12. Hermit; loner
discretion
confound
recluse
euphemism
13. Satisfy fully
appease
satiate
volatile
dogma
14. Respect - courtesy
eclectic
predilection
redoubtable
deference
15. Impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness
effrontery
contentious
bolster
laud
16. Determination
desultory
resolution
canonical
misanthrope
17. To set right; to free from error
veracity
disabuse
homogenous
discerning
18. To cause or happen before anticipated or required
invective
prevaricate
precipitate
polemical
19. One who opposes established beliefs - customs - and institutions
iconoclast
abscond
ardor
vigilant
20. The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
tenacity
ameliorate
antipathy
chaos
21. Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
hackneyed
penury
redoubtable
capricious
22. Pompous walk
strut
lethargic
pristine
repudiate
23. One who practices rigid self-denial - esp. as an act of religious devotion
disabuse
ascetic
meticulous
dogmatic
24. Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
attenuate
beneficent
decorum
adulterate
25. Something or someone misplaced in time
quibble
stupefy
anachronism
reverent
26. Lack of harmony; absurdity
presumptuous
stigma
onerous
incongruity
27. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
convoluted
enigmatic
ostentatious
aesthetic
28. Loquacious; wordy; talkative
garrulous
irascible
mitigate
facetious
29. Outgoing - sociable
obsequious
tirade
ameliorate
gregarious
30. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
fatuous
dissonance
contiguous
abeyance
31. To increase in number quickly
proliferate
grandiloquent
ambiguous
apathy
32. Poverty; destitution
strut
divest
penury
hedonism
33. Capricious; fanciful
elegy
whimsical
prevaricate
inadvertently
34. Unconscious; unresponsive
tortuous
insensible
taciturn
laconic
35. Not capable of being disturbed
equivocate
imperturbable
aberrant
glib
36. Confuse; puzzle
grandiloquent
soporific
confound
cogent
37. The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
synthesis
ingenuous
mollify
hegemony
38. Relieve
stolid
document
alleviate
waver
39. Occurring only occasionally - or in scattered instances
misanthrope
malevolent
dichotomy
sporadic
40. Be thrifty; set limits
stint
ostentation
precipitate
deference
41. Harmless
luminous
recant
aggrandize
innocuous
42. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
florid
pernicious
exonerate
indigence
43. A firmly held opinion - often a religious belief
ambivalence
dogma
repudiate
maverick
44. Changing one's mind quickly and often
idolatry
capricious
catalyst
frugality
45. Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs
obstinate
propriety
prevaricate
esoteric
46. Make unnecessary; get rid of
efficacy
tacit
obviate
derision
47. Trite remark; commonplace statement
whimsical
paucity
platitude
ostentatious
48. To make impure
mitigate
paradox
anarchy
adulterate
49. One who hates mankind
misanthrope
untenable
tirade
abscond
50. Lament with music
fervid
dirge
quotidian
diatribe