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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. Great disorder or confusion
approbation
irascible
hedonism
chaos
2. Aggressiveness; ferocity
truculence
platitude
odious
loquacious
3. Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
contrite
dearth
deride
facetious
4. To plunge or drop straight down
apathy
tangential
idolatry
plummet
5. Lacking funds; without money
bucolic
rarefied
impecunious
sage
6. Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
exculpate
nebulous
efficacy
endemic
7. Disprove
assuage
preamble
impetuous
refute
8. Riddle; difficult problem
disjointed
reticent
rarefy
conundrum
9. Adorn; ornament; enhance - as a story
efficacy
embellish
zealot
phlegmatic
10. To fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
volatile
facilitate
laconic
renege
11. Arrogant presumption or pride
naive
martial
hubris
repudiate
12. Limited; restricted
qualified
plummet
derivative
loquacious
13. Soothing - esp. to the skin; making less harsh
banal
dirge
emollient
obstinate
14. Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
aver
indolent
specious
castigate
15. To dry out thoroughly
guile
noxious
ephemeral
desiccate
16. Implied; not explicitly stated
tacit
spendthrift
torpor
squander
17. Cursory; done without care or interest
dismiss
bucolic
capricious
perfunctory
18. Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood
catalyst
mercurial
mitigate
anomalous
19. Loquacious; wordy; talkative
garrulous
deride
equivocate
onerous
20. Split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
decorum
venerate
dichotomy
anachronism
21. Revere
anachronism
venerate
squalid
embellish
22. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
partisan
abscond
dogmatic
volatile
23. Abusive; scolding
vituperative
exacerbate
perfunctory
cacophonous
24. Departing from norms or conventions
eccentric
inconsequential
impassive
zeal
25. Capable of being shaped
malleable
fatuous
dilate
martial
26. Urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
credulous
exigent
diatribe
fervid
27. Harmful; injurious
noxious
castigation
proclivity
gregarious
28. Burdensome
verbose
onerous
eloquent
verbose
29. To perceive; to recognize
equivocate
discern
garrulous
satiate
30. Someone easily fooled
dupe
negate
default
fallacy
31. Approve; ratify
equivocate
anachronism
sanction
soporific
32. Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
laconic
soporific
malinger
harangue
33. Associated with war and the armed forces
discern
imminent
disjointed
martial
34. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
chaos
welter
estimable
perfidious
35. Able to be molded - altered - or bent
digression
plastic
redoubtable
magnanimity
36. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
abstemious
caustic
audacious
plummet
37. Filled with truth and accuracy
ingenuous
whimsical
veracity
transgression
38. Abnormal or deviant
converge
perennial
cacaphony
aberrant
39. To make larger; to expand
metamorphosis
incipient
preamble
dilate
40. To lie or deviate from the truth
presumptuous
propitiate
prevaricate
contrite
41. Acting in an indifferent or slow - sluggish manner
impunity
lethargic
squalid
tacit
42. Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
buttress
shard
recondite
chicanery
43. Defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve
discredit
proscribe
recant
efficacy
44. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
spurious
distend
pungent
sporadic
45. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
cacaphony
desiccate
neophyte
quaff
46. To calm or make less severe
audacious
rarefy
emulate
mollify
47. Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
verbose
innocuous
astringent
fanatical
48. Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme - unquestioned devotion
fanatical
divulge
quaff
vigilant
49. Soothe
mollify
vex
abyss
magnanimity
50. Blacken
caustic
denigrate
impetuous
proliferate