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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. Departing from norms or conventions
indifferent
discrepancy
eccentric
default
2. Uncertain; risky
pathological
rescind
vilify
precarious
3. Acquire; take possession of for one's own use
heretical
appropriate
alchemy
proliferate
4. Wary; cautious; sparing
querulous
articulate
chary
insipid
5. Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
pervasive
chauvinist
confound
substantiate
6. Of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
effrontery
anomaly
maverick
mundane
7. To increase in power - influence - and reputation
aberrant
aggrandize
alacrity
specious
8. At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
perennial
partisan
imperturbable
quiescent
9. Of a similar kind
obviate
desultory
anomaly
homogenous
10. Effective writing or speaking
rhetoric
forestall
paragon
subpoena
11. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
exculpate
ebullience
squander
adulterate
12. Stir up; instigate
maverick
prosaic
foment
dirge
13. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
esoteric
untenable
caustic
onerous
14. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
halcyon
inert
obstinate
transgression
15. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
capricious
chaos
aberrant
distill
16. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
extemporaneous
insensible
occlude
rarefy
17. Unconscious; unresponsive
insensible
axiom
squalid
austere
18. Adherence to highest principles; uprightness
grandiloquence
equivocate
probity
volatile
19. Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
queries
rescind
cogent
elegy
20. Devotion to pleasurable pursuits - esp. to the pleasures of the senses
quaff
efficacy
hedonism
converge
21. Without deceit
guileless
exacerbate
implacable
distend
22. Something that brings about a change in something else
indeterminate
catalyst
reprobate
specious
23. Sharp and irritating to the senses
laud
pungent
bombast
decorum
24. A mark of shame or discredit
stigma
pirate
ostentatious
proliferate
25. Recent convert; beginner
phlegmatic
vituperative
conciliatory
neophyte
26. Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
dirge
perfunctory
impervious
laud
27. Extreme dislike
eclectic
antipathy
contrite
anachronism
28. Impervious; not permitting passage through its substance
pungent
lucid
impermeable
apathy
29. Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
analogous
specious
supersede
ingenuous
30. To annoy
capricious
guileless
engender
vex
31. Appease
propitiate
ebullience
lethargic
desultory
32. Plan of a trip
placate
laud
probity
itinerary
33. To obtain by deception or flattery
emollient
austere
inveigle
amalgamate
34. Not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
intractable
impede
opprobrium
emulate
35. To respect deeply
hyperbole
aggrandize
venerate
esoteric
36. Refusal of any compromise; stubbornness
precipitate
stipulate
intransigence
intransigent
37. Penitent
virulent
catalyst
contrite
infelicitous
38. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
fervid
ameliorate
mundane
metaphor
39. To arouse or incite
foment
catalyst
erratic
embellish
40. Fragment; generally of pottery
disabuse
bombastic
resolution
shard
41. Scarcity
immutable
paucity
ostentatious
castigation
42. Lazy
indolent
implode
imperturbable
immutable
43. Sharing a border; touching; adjacent
tenuous
facetious
decorum
contiguous
44. Dull; unimaginative
crescendo
discordant
mitigate
prosaic
45. To support; to prop up
audacious
permeable
fervid
bolster
46. Deep; not superficial; complete
profound
articulate
presumptuous
hubris
47. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
pine
mollify
inchoate
approbation
48. Cheerful promptness; eagerness
urbane
disparate
alacrity
dormant
49. Great disorder or confusion
chaos
foment
reverent
contrite
50. Controversial; argumentative
polemical
precursor
foment
eloquent