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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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Subjects
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Sticky - gluey
plethora
belie
viscous
catalyst
2. Concerning the appreciation of beauty
disparage
aesthetic
itinerary
bucolic
3. Tending to talk a lot
catalyst
garrulous
chaos
bucolic
4. Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
arduous
default
repudiate
capricious
5. Truthfulness; honesty
strut
veracity
implacable
malevolent
6. Improve
magnanimity
ameliorate
corroborate
subtle
7. Beginning to come into being or to become apparent
lucid
spendthrift
arduous
incipient
8. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
aggrandize
tortuous
decorum
impecunious
9. Thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals
foment
warranted
disparate
sparse
10. Brief; concise
pungent
fanatical
cogent
succinct
11. Courteous regard for another's wish
deference
bolster
ascetic
disparage
12. Unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
boorish
euphemism
craven
inert
13. To punish or criticize harshly
harangue
connoisseur
anomaly
castigate
14. To lie or deviate from the truth
assuage
relegate
prevaricate
implacable
15. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
flout
tenacity
disparage
insipid
16. Sharp and irritating to the senses
prattle
pungent
placate
bolster
17. Lacking in flavor; dull
insipid
extemporaneous
odious
specious
18. Diligent
hegemony
specious
pedant
assiduous
19. Calm; not easily disturbed
phlegmatic
fervor
disparate
flag
20. Prevent by taking action in advance
dissemble
sparse
forestall
problematic
21. Hostile - unfriendly
salubrious
morose
precursor
inimical
22. Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
probity
antipathy
harangue
secrete
23. Support; reinforce
fledgling
obfuscate
bolster
stint
24. To arouse or incite
chauvinist
digression
impassive
foment
25. Intended to delay
dilatory
admonish
unfeigned
enervate
26. Lack of harmony; absurdity
apprise
incongruity
precursor
lethargic
27. To reduce in amount - degree - or severity
propitiate
zeal
precipitate
abate
28. To remove blame
exonerate
elegy
canonical
prevaricate
29. A force that causes rotation
strut
torque
quiescence
ingenuous
30. To demonstrate contempt for - as in a rule or convention
aberrant
flout
deride
decorum
31. Lack of consistency; difference
deference
pungent
discrepancy
mercurial
32. Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
irascible
alacrity
torpor
proliferate
33. Not moving - active - or in motion; at rest
veracious
static
exculpate
irascible
34. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
metaphor
salubrious
untenable
proliferate
35. Draw out by discussion
elicit
craven
endemic
glib
36. One who spends money wastefully
axiomatic
spendthrift
assuage
conciliatory
37. Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
impervious
censure
disinterested
exculpate
38. Blacken
denigrate
impunity
sporadic
credulous
39. Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
specious
connoisseur
solvent
audacious
40. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
querulous
ephemeral
convoluted
coda
41. Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density - force - degree)
attenuate
log
impervious
hubris
42. Eliminate from consideration; reject
inimical
tortuous
log
dismiss
43. Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
pristine
stoic
capricious
amalgamate
44. A natural predisposition or inclination
proclivity
corroborate
dissolution
mollify
45. Riddle; difficult problem
desiccate
disjointed
conundrum
filibuster
46. Someone who shows off learning
trenchant
eulogy
pedant
perfunctory
47. To plunge or drop straight down
assuage
plummet
implode
soporific
48. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
disjointed
recant
axiomatic
static
49. Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
malleable
futile
arduous
innocuous
50. Something long-lasting
perennial
hubris
quibble
digression