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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
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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. Wasteful; reckless with money
prodigal
dichotomy
implacable
repudiate
2. Marked with parallel bands; grooved
decorum
striated
appropriate
indifferent
3. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
torpor
apathy
squander
guile
4. Lazy
capricious
burnish
implode
indolent
5. Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
approbation
nebulous
caustic
proclivity
6. Clear and easily understood
disinterested
lucid
enumerate
divest
7. Calmness of temperament; composure
austere
propensity
equanimity
rancorous
8. Lament with music
implacable
dirge
solicious
infelicitous
9. To sooth or pacify
irresolute
placate
insipid
chicanery
10. To make worse
quotidian
pirate
exacerbate
transitory
11. Expand; swell out
distend
malleable
accolade
quiescence
12. Thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals
sparse
avarice
rarefy
phlegmatic
13. Cheerful promptness; eagerness
onerous
alacrity
discordant
precarious
14. Infamy; vilification
opprobium
facilitate
redoubtable
dilettante
15. Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
effrontery
pervasive
reprobate
pith
16. Ostracize; banish; outlaw
proscribe
diffuse
malingerer
synthesis
17. Bitter scolding; invective
aesthetic
insularity
diatribe
chicanery
18. To reduce in amount - degree - or severity
venerate
abate
impecunious
truculence
19. Fleeting; passing quickly; brief
transient
aberrant
pragmatic
adulterate
20. Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
chauvinist
dearth
tenuous
malleable
21. Belittle
recondite
cogent
disparage
squalid
22. To undeceive; to set right
beneficent
disabuse
opprobrium
fanatical
23. A person who dislikes others
obsequious
aver
misanthrope
anomaly
24. Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
approbation
furtive
intransigence
strut
25. Urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention
satiate
exigency
enervate
misanthrope
26. To make more bearable
buttress
beneficent
alleviate
exigent
27. Plan of a trip
truculence
harangue
guileless
itinerary
28. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
insipid
transitory
aver
sanction
29. Pacify or soothe; relieve
appease
variegated
paradox
candid
30. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
foment
pedantic
invective
recalcitrant
31. To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
torpor
idolatrous
adulterate
dupe
32. False; misleading
filibuster
renege
recant
fallacious
33. Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
whimsical
pragmatic
fawn
ennui
34. Docile; easily managed
striated
malingerer
tractable
convention
35. Unpredictable; fickle
capricious
eccentric
misanthrope
precursor
36. Predictable - cliched - boring
sparse
voracious
pragmatic
banal
37. To set right; to free from error
disabuse
bombastic
sanction
compendium
38. Agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction - development - or change
glib
obviate
quiescence
catalyst
39. To make better or more tolerable
converge
ameliorate
evanescent
perfidious
40. Calm and peaceful
halcyon
stint
cogent
irresolute
41. Approval
evanescent
approbation
alacrity
stigma
42. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
abscond
tirade
opprobrium
phlegmatic
43. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
precarious
cynicism
precipitate
zeal
44. To waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; to waver
chary
garrulous
vacillate
credulous
45. Without deceit
guileless
tenuous
irascible
exacerbate
46. Overly submissive and eager to please
bombastic
profound
obsequious
stupefy
47. Settle down; descend; grow quiet
viable
savor
divest
subside
48. Urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
mollify
alacrity
exigent
elegy
49. Thick; sticky
proliferate
viscous
insipid
supposition
50. Cancel
decorum
laud
rescind
volatile