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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. To reduce in amount - degree - or severity
abate
rarefy
chary
plastic
2. Wary; cautious; sparing
pious
impetuous
diffuse
chary
3. Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
salubrious
obtuse
antagonize
pervasive
4. Understood; not put into words
discrete
pedant
perennial
tacit
5. Sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
gregarious
permeate
dilate
discrete
6. Belittle
verbose
disparage
imperturbable
prolific
7. Not moving - active - or in motion; at rest
arbitrate
saturate
esoteric
static
8. Great disorder or confusion
presumptuous
neophyte
chaos
welter
9. Make express conditions - specify
rancorous
permeable
aberrant
stipulate
10. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
secrete
dogmatic
maverick
waver
11. Approve; ratify
sanction
felicitous
implacable
frugality
12. To leave secretly
pervasive
abscond
obsequious
decorum
13. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
exonerate
untenable
volatile
platitude
14. To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
prattle
indifferent
quibble
hedonism
15. Arrogant presumption or pride
deference
implacable
imperturbable
hubris
16. Stubbornly opinionated
esoteric
precursor
pungent
dogmatic
17. Quick to act without thinking
filibuster
impetuous
fallacious
anomaly
18. Unpredictable; fickle
gregarious
rhetoric
analogous
capricious
19. Able to speak clearly and expressively
articulate
tenuous
waver
antipathy
20. Very cautious
cogent
gregarious
distend
wary
21. Hermit; loner
subside
refute
recluse
diffuse
22. Revere
apathy
incipient
venerate
tirade
23. Acquire; take possession of for one's own use
pith
appropriate
luminous
transitory
24. Punishment; severe criticism
anachronism
antipathy
castigation
chicanery
25. Burdensome
onerous
predilection
guileless
inveigle
26. A harsh denunciation
banal
proscribe
diatribe
pathological
27. Increase; improve
precipitate
boorish
propriety
enhance
28. Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
impassive
opaque
audacious
discordant
29. Adorn; ornament; enhance - as a story
quiescent
pristine
embellish
bolster
30. Marked by extreme calm - impassivity and steadiness
verbose
preen
imperturbable
hyperbole
31. Having a sour or bitter taste or character
opprobium
elegy
philanthropy
acerbic
32. Approach; tend to meet; come together
penurious
recant
dormant
converge
33. Outgoing - sociable
deference
gregarious
bolster
contentious
34. Rude; insensitive
placate
boorish
grandiloquent
intrepid
35. Changing one's mind quickly and often
demur
volatile
capricious
meticulous
36. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
garrulous
censure
bombast
torpor
37. Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
flag
supersede
satiate
opprobrium
38. Suspended action
enervate
specious
presumptuous
abeyance
39. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
oscillation
derivative
luminous
ameliorate
40. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
philanthropy
repudiate
virulent
banal
41. Adherence to highest principles; uprightness
perfunctory
probity
shard
perennial
42. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
pine
austere
boorish
intransigent
43. Stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
endemic
sordid
phlegmatic
quiescence
44. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
compliant
paragon
reticent
ingenuous
45. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
abstain
dissemble
paean
ebullience
46. Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
secrete
complaisant
volatile
penchant
47. Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
philanthropy
ephemeral
terse
precursor
48. Of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
desultory
presumptuous
metamorphosis
mundane
49. Failure to act
decorum
default
subside
cogent
50. Firmly established by nature or habit
platitude
inherent
pristine
taciturn