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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. Trickery; deception
soporific
piety
strut
chicanery
2. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
obstinate
canon
esoteric
prodigal
3. To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
alleviate
axiomatic
equivocate
abstemious
4. Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
bolster
philanthropy
malinger
disabuse
5. To produce - cause - or bring about
engender
impecunious
foment
volatile
6. Characterized by or given to pretentiousness
pervade
impair
anomalous
ostentatious
7. Inform
aesthetic
inert
apprise
inchoate
8. Droop; grow feeble
astringent
flag
grandiloquence
profuse
9. A new word - expression - or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
reticent
arduous
contiguous
neologism
10. Yielding; conforming to requirements
ingenuous
compliant
viable
convoluted
11. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
opprobium
discern
insipid
precipitate
12. Expand; swell out
elegy
qualified
arbitrate
distend
13. Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression
explicit
pristine
archaic
inured
14. Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread
desultory
ubiquitous
fanatical
ephemeral
15. Lack of interest or emotion
transitory
static
apathy
astringent
16. A piece of broken pottery or glass
negate
shard
quiescent
eulogy
17. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
subtle
discrete
vigilant
pernicious
18. Expression of praise - often on the occasion of someone's death
loquacious
eulogy
quiescence
iconoclast
19. Refusing to compromise
precipitate
eclectic
intransigent
mitigate
20. Wandering away from the subject
approbation
zealous
censure
digression
21. Hypothesis; surmise
catalyst
empirical
volatile
supposition
22. Calm; sluggish; unemotional
hyperbole
phlegmatic
capricious
variegated
23. Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
aggregate
implacable
sordid
deference
24. Easily made angry
shard
perfidy
vacillate
irascible
25. Apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
felicitous
compendium
profligate
specious
26. To court favor by a flattering manner
amalgamate
castigation
profound
fawn
27. Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
viable
fallacious
secrete
gregarious
28. Easily deceived
gullible
contentious
enervate
viscous
29. Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
gregarious
alleviate
dogmatic
aggrandize
30. Promoting health or well-being
ebullience
derivative
ephemeral
salubrious
31. Composed of elements drawn from various sources
eclectic
burgeon
elegy
pungent
32. Dull; unimaginative
chauvinist
elicit
disabuse
prosaic
33. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
ingenuous
lassitude
ameliorate
luminous
34. Shining; issuing light
solvent
credulous
luminous
aver
35. Intricate and complicated
prescience
veracity
perennial
convoluted
36. Prevent by taking action in advance
forestall
facetious
hegemony
nascent
37. Characterized by bitter - long-lasting resentment
dissolution
rancorous
enumerate
reticent
38. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
torpid
advocate
aggrandize
abyss
39. Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
gouge
fallacy
discordant
redoubtable
40. To satisfy fully or overindulge
penury
ostentatious
sanction
satiate
41. To choose not to do something
preamble
deride
abstain
acumen
42. Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
ameliorate
dogmatic
penchant
furtive
43. Excess
plethora
eulogy
impervious
synthesis
44. Thicken; congeal; clot
satiate
adulation
coagulate
propensity
45. About to happen; impending
diatribe
bombastic
anomalous
imminent
46. Clear from blame
fervor
exculpate
condone
canonical
47. Practical as opposed to idealistic
tout
pragmatic
impecunious
fortuitous
48. One who opposes established beliefs - customs - and institutions
dilettante
impede
insensible
iconoclast
49. To question or oppose
abate
inundate
perfidious
demur
50. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
obsequious
enigmatic
futile
capricious