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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. Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
supposition
pristine
discretion
philanthropy
2. Approval
torpor
noxious
enumerate
approbation
3. Yielding; conforming to requirements
advocate
compliant
conundrum
fawn
4. Abundant in size - force - or extent; extraordinary
malinger
savor
ambivalence
prodigious
5. A speech honoring the dead
inadvertently
eulogy
fervid
diatribe
6. Wasteful; reckless with money
maverick
prodigal
incorporate
crescendo
7. Temporary - lasting a brief time
voracious
transitory
filibuster
cynicism
8. Truthful
insinuate
veracious
luminous
dogmatic
9. Revealing no emotion
redoubtable
trenchant
equivocate
impassive
10. To combine several elements into a whole
amalgamate
sporadic
assuage
credulous
11. Not capable of change
garrulous
diffidence
immutable
occlude
12. Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
anachronism
adulterate
truculence
penurious
13. Composed of elements drawn from various sources
coagulate
eclectic
rarefy
exigent
14. Uncertain; risky
artless
fervent
maverick
precarious
15. Hard; strenuous
arduous
coda
inchoate
endemic
16. Lacking self-confidence
diffident
sanction
placate
prolific
17. Brief; concise
abate
stigma
alleviate
succinct
18. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
fervor
squalid
sanction
volatile
19. To set right; to free from error
implicit
fawning
disabuse
euphemism
20. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
dissemble
aesthetic
malleable
assuage
21. Minor objection or complaint
perfidious
alacrity
garrulous
quibble
22. Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
soporific
flout
stipulate
sanction
23. Marked by extreme calm - impassivity and steadiness
audacious
nascent
divulge
imperturbable
24. Make express conditions - specify
laconic
precipitate
stipulate
disparate
25. Overcharge
gouge
aberrant
capricious
insipid
26. Talkative
loquacious
abate
implode
proliferate
27. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
tirade
obviate
equivocate
supersede
28. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
disjointed
dissemble
innocuous
pedantic
29. Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
eccentric
grandiloquence
paean
recalcitrant
30. Disprove
refute
precarious
precipitate
predilection
31. Lessen in intensity; moderate; appease
insinuate
coda
assuage
mitigate
32. To reject the validity of
repudiate
cogent
deference
perfunctory
33. Impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness
amalgamate
effrontery
laud
rarefy
34. Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
anomaly
austere
impervious
effrontery
35. To make better or more tolerable
shard
ameliorate
tirade
skeptic
36. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
onerous
obsequious
amenable
voracious
37. To flatter or praise excessively
fawn
impecunious
dupe
pervasive
38. Help bring about; make less difficult
solicitous
aesthetic
solvent
facilitate
39. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
enervate
capricious
intractable
tangential
40. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional)
specious
daunt
acumen
dismiss
41. To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate
vituperate
chary
mollify
profuse
42. Potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
latent
vex
veracious
frugality
43. Fall sharply
vigilant
ameliorate
plummet
enervate
44. Deny
tenacity
exculpate
gainsay
sublime
45. Learned; scholarly
erudite
adulterate
banal
penury
46. Understood but not stated
efficacy
ardor
implicit
stigma
47. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
loquacious
equivocate
approbation
ebullience
48. Clear; easily understood
disparage
lucid
flout
substantiate
49. To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
extemporaneous
impervious
precipitate
malinger
50. To provide supporting evidence
occlude
fawning
spurious
corroborate