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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. Not capable of being disturbed
penury
imperturbable
enervate
refractory
2. Dictatorial in one's opinions
effrontery
stymie
dogmatic
adulation
3. Respect - courtesy
deference
convoluted
sedulous
amenable
4. Wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas)
diffuse
warranted
occlude
vex
5. To undeceive; to set right
variegated
disabuse
inert
intransigence
6. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
malingerer
maverick
metaphor
malleable
7. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
analogous
endemic
precipitate
dupe
8. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
complaisance
fervent
waver
inchoate
9. Ridicule; make fun of
deride
hubris
odious
cacaphony
10. Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
opaque
inundate
soporific
emulate
11. Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
stolid
opprobrium
facilitate
phlegmatic
12. Wandering and unpredictable
erratic
precursor
presumptuous
heretical
13. Burdensome
germane
porous
onerous
dogmatic
14. Rude; insensitive
desiccate
occlude
demur
boorish
15. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
refute
convoluted
dogmatic
caustic
16. Brief - comprehensive summary
subside
compendium
implode
audacious
17. Convincing
fledgling
cogent
recalcitrant
ambiguous
18. Extremely talkative
luminous
analogous
tacit
loquacious
19. Occurring irregularly
compliant
vex
sporadic
garrulous
20. Unfortunate; inappropriate
diffident
infelicitous
mollify
assiduous
21. At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
incipient
obsequious
propitiate
quiescent
22. Ancient - old-fashioned
mendacity
archaic
specious
lucid
23. The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
anomalous
mendacity
plummet
belie
24. Hermit; loner
recluse
disparage
complaisant
indeterminate
25. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
specious
lassitude
implacable
dissonance
26. Agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction - development - or change
gregarious
catalyst
fallacy
convoluted
27. Record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities
pedant
log
imperturbable
propensity
28. Dull; unimaginative
arbitrate
obsequious
prosaic
maverick
29. Accustomed; hardened
eclectic
platitude
imperturbable
inured
30. Speech in praise of someone
eulogy
quiescent
ostentation
rarefy
31. To clear of blame
sanction
burgeon
dissemble
exonerate
32. Poverty; destitution
surfeit
penury
warranted
cogent
33. Temporary - lasting a brief time
disparate
transitory
germane
probity
34. To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate
vituperate
aggrandize
skeptic
specious
35. Understood but not stated
platitude
predilection
meticulous
implicit
36. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
inured
relegate
rarefy
volatile
37. A natural predisposition or inclination
obstinate
hegemony
bolster
proclivity
38. Cause; produce
engender
exculpate
obstinate
tortuous
39. Something long-lasting
culpable
torpid
sparse
perennial
40. Drowsy; dull
plummet
presumptuous
lethargic
deference
41. Justified; authorized
quaff
warranted
appropriate
abstemious
42. Make unnecessary; get rid of
aberrant
tangential
obviate
eclectic
43. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
assiduous
satiate
specious
bombast
44. Convincing and well reasoned
lucid
equanimity
cogent
fortuitous
45. Precise and brief
austere
pithy
anachronism
insipid
46. Disprove
hedonism
qualms
refute
castigate
47. To overwhelm; to cover with water
discordant
pious
tirade
inundate
48. To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
prevaricate
dogmatic
gouge
conciliatory
49. To plunge or drop straight down
mitigate
preen
plummet
prescience
50. Cancel out; nullify; deny
engender
itinerary
obstinate
negate