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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
disabuse
recant
occlude
decorum
2. To annoy
vex
canon
ebullient
irascible
3. Supporting bar
austere
stolid
subside
strut
4. False; misleading
misanthrope
contentious
fallacious
magnanimity
5. Lacking funds; without money
specious
rarefy
impecunious
banal
6. Motionless
tractable
inimical
eloquent
quiescent
7. To retract - esp. a previously held belief
pedagogy
aberrant
recant
implode
8. Effectiveness
efficacy
oscillation
parody
pristine
9. Sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
gregarious
incipient
caustic
mitigate
10. Trite remark; commonplace statement
static
platitude
plethora
archaic
11. A substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing
catalyst
pervade
innocuous
mitigate
12. Hinder - block
impede
succinct
inadvertently
flag
13. Damaging; harmful; injurious
porous
inimical
abscond
strut
14. Concerning the appreciation of beauty
coda
inimical
aesthetic
ingenuous
15. Record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities
elegy
erudite
inchoate
log
16. The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
mendacity
presumptuous
naive
avarice
17. Languor; weariness
lassitude
archaic
esoteric
prudence
18. Burst inward
perfunctory
ennui
implode
laconic
19. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive - time
problematic
archaic
dogma
discretion
20. Using few words
empirical
loquacious
laconic
disparate
21. Soak thoroughly
aver
dismiss
eclectic
saturate
22. Diligent; persistent; hard-working
propensity
platitude
incorporate
sedulous
23. To count - list - or itemize
anomaly
implicit
voracious
enumerate
24. A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
corroborate
dirge
laud
satire
25. A firmly held opinion - often a religious belief
engender
dogma
pedantic
paragon
26. Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
sordid
garrulous
bolster
apprise
27. Without guile; open and honest
transient
caustic
convoluted
artless
28. To punish or criticize harshly
advocate
audacious
decorum
castigate
29. Contradict; give a false impression
belie
inveigle
abscond
commensurate
30. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule; abnormality
anomaly
obfuscate
garrulous
inherent
31. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
rhetoric
conundrum
decorum
volatile
32. Lie
prevaricate
diffidence
didactic
capricious
33. Deceit or trickery
magnanimity
evanescent
guile
desiccate
34. Thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals
aggregate
zealot
sparse
prodigal
35. Shyness
subpoena
diffidence
paragon
assuage
36. To support; to prop up
veracity
bolster
predilection
hyperbole
37. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound; dissonance
cacophony
refractory
rescind
prodigal
38. Of the same kind
ambiguous
sporadic
homogenous
prudence
39. Treacherous; disloyal
perfidious
abscond
wary
axiomatic
40. To increase in number quickly
waver
proliferate
metamorphosis
insinuate
41. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
compliant
torpor
desultory
insipid
42. Rude; insensitive
boorish
flag
grandiloquent
inveigle
43. Impervious; not permitting passage through its substance
disinterested
impermeable
prohibitive
incorporate
44. To clear from blame; prove innocent
quiescent
saturate
exculpate
torpor
45. Bright - brilliant - glowing
assuage
luminous
querulous
garrulous
46. An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
engender
perfidious
veracity
fallacy
47. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
intransigent
grandiloquence
florid
proliferate
48. Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
apathy
virulent
contention
subside
49. Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme - unquestioned devotion
mercurial
homogenous
fanatical
dilatory
50. Changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly
exigent
volatile
unfeigned
malevolent