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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. Intended to delay
dilatory
analogous
laconic
anomalous
2. Intricate and complicated
veracity
esoteric
convoluted
refute
3. Settle down; descend; grow quiet
accolade
digression
subside
facilitate
4. To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
desiccate
grandiloquence
monotony
exigency
5. One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
desultory
artless
germane
iconoclast
6. Coiled around; involved; intricate
amalgamate
inundate
germane
convoluted
7. Troubling; burdensome
polemical
dogmatic
perfidy
onerous
8. Disprove
prosaic
opprobrium
penury
refute
9. Associated with war and the armed forces
martial
synthesis
archaic
supplant
10. Annoyance; irritation
profligate
obfuscate
condone
vexation
11. Stubborn
discern
harangue
obdurate
impair
12. The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
rarefied
mendacity
secrete
reticent
13. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
inundate
pungent
compendium
tirade
14. Trickery or subterfuge
perfidious
tenuous
chicanery
deride
15. Urgent; requiring immediate action
stolid
misanthrope
solicious
exigent
16. Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
hackneyed
terse
lucid
recalcitrant
17. Violation of a law; sin
transgression
opaque
maverick
fervor
18. To make better or more tolerable
reprobate
strut
ameliorate
fawn
19. Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
boorish
catalyst
facetious
reticent
20. Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
foment
laud
intransigent
abyss
21. Justified; authorized
sporadic
placate
quaff
warranted
22. To permeate throughout
exonerate
prosaic
shard
pervade
23. Lacking in flavor; dull
efficacy
insipid
specious
polemical
24. Purify; refine; concentrate
distill
catalyst
aver
whimsical
25. Temporary - lasting a brief time
unfeigned
transitory
waver
assuage
26. Eager and enthusiastic willingness
alacrity
prohibitive
fulminate
laud
27. Penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
zealot
permeable
tenacity
pithy
28. Penitent
subpoena
pristine
efficacy
contrite
29. Eliminate from consideration; reject
dismiss
chauvinist
sanction
compendium
30. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
opprobrium
venerate
solvent
ingenuous
31. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view
recondite
imperturbable
skeptic
grandiloquent
32. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
candid
assiduous
deference
meticulous
33. Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
venerate
venerate
ingenuous
arduous
34. To clear from blame; prove innocent
eloquent
implacable
exculpate
adulterate
35. Drowsy; dull
pith
quiescence
lethargic
contentious
36. Burning; sarcastically biting
profuse
malleable
disabuse
caustic
37. Harmless; causing no damage
ubiquitous
innocuous
ambivalence
indolent
38. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
capricious
laud
cacophonous
recondite
39. To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
erudite
prevaricate
decorum
disabuse
40. Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
bombastic
irascible
partisan
flout
41. Characterized by filth - grime - or squalor; foul
implacable
plummet
sordid
denigrate
42. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
gouge
aggrandize
neophyte
ascetic
43. To provide supporting evidence
bolster
corroborate
vituperative
verbose
44. Comparable
supersede
catalyst
buttress
analogous
45. Uncertain; risky
quiescent
precarious
efficacy
venerate
46. Abusive; scolding
refractory
imperturbable
stigma
vituperative
47. Fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal
paradox
zealot
quiescent
facetious
48. Intentional breach of faith; treachery
prevaricate
banal
pine
perfidy
49. Practical rather than idealistic
enumerate
embellish
pragmatic
castigate
50. Silent - reserved
imminent
distend
dirge
reticent