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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 present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
amalgamate
philanthropy
dissemble
prodigal
2. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
elegy
condone
pungent
impecunious
3. A universally recognized principle
contiguous
propriety
axiom
catalyst
4. Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
obdurate
intrepid
soporific
morose
5. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
resolution
appease
proliferate
cogent
6. Admirable
implicit
variegated
estimable
aggrandize
7. Support; prop up
rancorous
axiom
buttress
quiescent
8. Deny
gainsay
euphemism
tangential
dissemble
9. To plunge or drop straight down
viable
exigent
sedulous
plummet
10. To flatter or praise excessively
aesthetic
negate
sedulous
fawn
11. To court favor by a flattering manner
surfeit
neophyte
venerate
fawn
12. Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
rescind
aggrandize
supplant
inchoate
13. Revealing no emotion
impassive
log
pedantic
pedagogy
14. Wordy
verbose
indolent
tenuous
qualms
15. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
fervid
profligate
euphemism
equivocate
16. An exaggerated statement - often used as a figure of speech
hyperbole
mitigate
torpor
tangential
17. Portray; depict; sketch
delineate
naive
enervate
recalcitrant
18. To clear of blame
tirade
unfeigned
presumptuous
exonerate
19. Wordy
deride
implode
verbose
exculpate
20. To combine - to mix together
denigrate
recondite
amalgamate
abstain
21. An expression of approval or praise
precursor
approbation
gregarious
belie
22. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
whimsical
axiomatic
filibuster
discretion
23. Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
glib
implicit
whimsical
repudiate
24. Subside or moderate
perennial
abate
futile
rarefy
25. Short-lived; fleeting
enervate
fawn
ephemeral
inadvertently
26. A speech honoring the dead
mitigate
dupe
eulogy
spendthrift
27. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view
skeptic
dogmatic
estimable
ingenuous
28. To fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
renege
approbation
contention
anomaly
29. Failure to act
precipitate
default
truculent
plummet
30. A contradiction or dilemma
penury
irresolute
paradox
precipitate
31. An established set of principles or code of laws - often religious in nature
goad
canon
tractable
ennui
32. Rebel; nonconformist
disinterested
predilection
maverick
tenacity
33. To slight or belittle
discretion
exculpate
strut
disparage
34. Be thrifty; set limits
transient
austere
occlude
stint
35. Precise and brief
permeable
stigma
pithy
tenuous
36. Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
penurious
attenuate
taciturn
neophyte
37. An expression of praise
accolade
supplant
shard
daunt
38. A funeral hymn or mournful speech
dirge
efficacy
superfluous
connoisseur
39. Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
torpor
pragmatic
embellish
eulogy
40. Hermit; loner
discretion
glib
recluse
supposition
41. Kindly; doing good
adulterate
porous
beneficent
tacit
42. Composed of elements drawn from various sources
estimable
evanescent
eclectic
acumen
43. Intended to teach or instruct
lucid
didactic
pious
tirade
44. Filled with truth and accuracy
rarefy
pathological
veracity
supplant
45. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional)
obstinate
platitude
amalgamate
specious
46. To anticipate and make unnecessary
mitigate
inimical
obviate
perfunctory
47. Irritable; easily angered
obsequious
latent
irascible
censure
48. An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
soporific
maverick
exculpate
hegemony
49. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
capricious
meticulous
secrete
phlegmatic
50. Useless; hopeless; ineffectual
futile
enervate
pedantic
crescendo