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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. To publicly praise or promote
queries
adulation
tout
emulate
2. Controversial; argumentative
disingenuous
polemical
quiescent
rescind
3. Failure to act
facetious
enervate
default
paradox
4. To flatter or praise excessively
arduous
viscous
ephemeral
fawn
5. Worsen; embitter
exacerbate
ingenuous
inchoate
preamble
6. An extremely deep hole
efficacy
incipient
abyss
ubiquitous
7. Cheerful promptness; eagerness
alacrity
spendthrift
prosaic
decorum
8. Fall sharply
canon
salubrious
plummet
flout
9. Injure; hurt
log
impair
specious
hackneyed
10. Lacking genuine candor; insincere
flout
pedant
disingenuous
chary
11. Sad; sullen; melancholy
obtuse
insinuate
morose
solvent
12. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
pedantic
ambivalence
misanthrope
exacerbate
13. To question or oppose
loquacious
innocuous
solvent
demur
14. Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
connoisseur
stoic
pragmatic
engender
15. To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
specious
adulterate
pungent
misanthrope
16. Based on observation or experiment
divest
audacious
empirical
innocuous
17. Rash; premature; hasty; sudden
banal
laconic
precipitate
canonical
18. Change of form
catalyst
metamorphosis
polemical
fallacious
19. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
sordid
capricious
magnanimity
assuage
20. Immunity from punishment or penalty
impunity
glib
effrontery
perfidious
21. Ability to be molded
unfeigned
elicit
plasticity
mitigate
22. Mentally quick and observant; having insight
laconic
effrontery
discerning
ostentatious
23. Departing from norms or conventions
eccentric
exculpate
mollify
reverent
24. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
connoisseur
prevaricate
condone
abyss
25. Quick to act without thinking
credulous
impetuous
itinerary
inured
26. To forcibly assign - esp. to a lower place or position
relegate
derision
proliferate
euphemism
27. Great disorder or confusion
stigma
obsequious
inundate
chaos
28. To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
phlegmatic
dupe
discretion
ameliorate
29. Brief; concise
burgeon
succinct
tirade
fawning
30. Harmless; causing no damage
convoluted
oscillate
innocuous
impunity
31. One who opposes established beliefs - customs - and institutions
nascent
iconoclast
occlude
shard
32. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
tirade
bombastic
convention
precipitate
33. Fearless and daring
canonical
audacious
discrete
naive
34. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
buttress
tacit
guile
welter
35. Sticky - gluey
viscous
gregarious
fawning
phlegmatic
36. Improvised; done without preparation
extemporaneous
ostentation
fanatical
insipid
37. Healthful
florid
insipid
salubrious
maverick
38. Uncertain; risky
precarious
saturate
phlegmatic
officious
39. Penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
indifferent
permeable
decorum
perennial
40. At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
obdurate
quibble
fawn
quiescent
41. Something long-lasting
disparage
perennial
insipid
erratic
42. Loquacious; wordy; talkative
static
propensity
audacious
garrulous
43. Approval
tenuous
approbation
exculpate
inert
44. Disgrace; contempt; scorn
ambiguous
opprobrium
gouge
belie
45. Artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful
aesthetic
tacit
banal
empirical
46. Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
bolster
alacrity
prodigal
stolid
47. Thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals
sparse
morose
distill
mitigate
48. Arrogant presumption or pride
occlude
impermeable
log
hubris
49. To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
recluse
zeal
desiccate
obsequious
50. Overly submissive and eager to please
deterrent
presumptuous
pungent
obsequious