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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. Meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services
squalid
discretion
officious
stigma
2. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
approbation
dissonance
precipitate
connoisseur
3. To annoy or provoke to anger
antagonize
squander
castigation
spectrum
4. To loudly attack or denounce
catalyst
fulminate
facetious
aesthetic
5. Done in a routine way; indifferent
malleable
perfunctory
penury
tenuous
6. Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
specious
viscous
enervate
austere
7. Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
effrontery
austere
obfuscate
recondite
8. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive - time
archaic
endemic
discrepancy
impervious
9. Fall sharply
impair
plummet
burgeon
eclectic
10. Easily deceived
contrite
ingenuous
gullible
obsequious
11. Lack of variation
diffuse
emulate
monotony
penury
12. To sway physically; to be indecisive
pungent
inert
vacillate
esoteric
13. Of the same kind
pirate
ennui
plethora
homogenous
14. Abnormal; irregular
anomalous
estimable
contiguous
appease
15. Arrogant presumption or pride
hubris
aberrant
efficacy
cynicism
16. Radiant; shiny; brilliant
buttress
refulgent
esoteric
adulation
17. Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity
levity
abate
untenable
stolid
18. An established set of principles or code of laws - often religious in nature
canon
acerbic
perfunctory
squalid
19. Occurring irregularly
sporadic
sanction
effrontery
perfunctory
20. Person hardened by sin - devoid of a sense of decency
pungent
reprobate
qualified
taciturn
21. Revealing no emotion
impassive
opaque
ingenuous
eclectic
22. Disguise; pretend
lethargic
dissemble
solvent
dichotomy
23. Stubborn - unyielding
obstinate
stupefy
ingenuous
vacillate
24. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
ebullience
alchemy
tirade
conundrum
25. A tendency to be thrifty or cheap
frugality
impervious
glib
enigmatic
26. Shut; close
stigma
burgeon
occlude
endemic
27. Polite or appropriate conduct or behavior
decorum
abate
intransigent
empirical
28. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
avarice
waver
intrepid
squander
29. Harmless
incipient
empirical
magnanimity
innocuous
30. To make thinner or sparser
idolatrous
rarefy
pernicious
mundane
31. Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
converge
occlude
negate
discordant
32. Lavish - wasteful
prodigal
inconsequential
compliant
misanthrope
33. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
querulous
aberrant
fawn
obsequious
34. Be thrifty; set limits
supersede
empirical
platitude
stint
35. To clear of blame
paragon
exonerate
ascetic
insularity
36. To give praise; to glorify
laud
precipitate
burgeon
prevaricate
37. Unoriginal; obtained from another source
mundane
anarchy
oscillate
derivative
38. Dry up
extrapolation
desiccate
complaisant
alleviate
39. Devoutness; reverence for God
chicanery
laconic
gainsay
piety
40. One who feigns illness to escape duty
homogenous
malingerer
mollify
stolid
41. Learned - scholarly - bookish
repudiate
immutable
disabuse
erudite
42. To flatter or praise excessively
attenuate
viable
unfeigned
fawn
43. An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
homogenous
disabuse
diatribe
fallacy
44. Practical rather than idealistic
surfeit
pragmatic
artless
spendthrift
45. Make shiny by rubbing; polish
canonical
pragmatic
burnish
erudite
46. To choose not to do something
discern
eulogy
guile
abstain
47. Injure; hurt
exculpate
rarefy
eclectic
impair
48. One who hates all other humans
obsequious
misanthrope
diatribe
quixotic
49. Artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
ingenuous
plummet
emulate
viable
50. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
mollify
censure
inundate
partisan