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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. Based on observation or experiment
empirical
sparse
propitiate
eulogy
2. To dry out thoroughly
precipitate
desiccate
recondite
document
3. Lying; habitually dishonest
equivocate
precipitate
mendacious
default
4. Something or someone misplaced in time
polemical
anachronism
implacable
sanction
5. Lack of harmony; absurdity
imperturbable
magnanimity
insinuate
incongruity
6. Evoking intense aversion or dislike
impetuous
odious
savor
lethargic
7. Characterized by filth - grime - or squalor; foul
sordid
zealot
superfluous
quaff
8. Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
relegate
misanthrope
derision
facetious
9. Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
ostentation
malleable
arduous
decorum
10. Soothe
obstinate
mollify
truculent
porous
11. Superficial; not thorough; lacking interest - care - or enthusiasm
discrepancy
meticulous
perfunctory
capricious
12. Trickery or subterfuge
heretical
eloquent
abeyance
chicanery
13. To undeceive; to set right
pernicious
emulate
disabuse
tirade
14. Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
dirge
incongruity
impetuous
prevaricate
15. Excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous
meticulous
bucolic
austere
substantiate
16. Capable of being shaped
exigent
abate
malleable
dearth
17. Stubbornly opinionated
profuse
dogmatic
equivocate
aggrandize
18. Overcharge
ostentation
torpor
approbation
gouge
19. Failure to act
quixotic
garrulous
default
martial
20. Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression
explicit
perennial
abyss
denigrate
21. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
philanthropy
querulous
caustic
connoisseur
22. Natural inclination
estimable
propensity
solicitous
eclectic
23. An established set of principles or code of laws - often religious in nature
canon
variegated
hegemony
frugality
24. Harmless
innocuous
perennial
anomaly
contentious
25. To anticipate and make unnecessary
impermeable
obviate
reticent
transgression
26. A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
voracious
torpor
eloquent
convention
27. Brief and concise in wording
terse
deterrent
obviate
ingenuous
28. Convincing and well reasoned
succinct
erudite
cogent
malleable
29. Given to intense or excessive devotion to something
idolatrous
anomalous
quixotic
dissemble
30. Exonerate; to clear of blame
exculpate
germane
abstemious
obdurate
31. A speech honoring the dead
eulogy
mollify
whimsical
aggrandize
32. Lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
enhance
torpor
savor
derision
33. Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
irascible
archaic
equivocate
torpor
34. Unruly; stubborn; unyielding
intractable
disabuse
opaque
dissemble
35. Cancel
rescind
apathy
iconoclast
onerous
36. Beginning to come into being or to become apparent
incipient
audacious
nascent
cogent
37. Something long-lasting
satiate
perennial
impunity
facilitate
38. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
austere
perfunctory
probity
abscond
39. Calmness of temperament; composure
chicanery
quiescent
halcyon
equanimity
40. Lack of caring; indifference
obviate
assuage
malleable
apathy
41. Be thrifty; set limits
opprobrium
recalcitrant
exculpate
stint
42. To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
innocuous
prattle
stupefy
precipitate
43. Eager and enthusiastic willingness
felicitous
alacrity
approbation
obsequious
44. Belittle
disparage
neologism
loquacious
opaque
45. Unfortunate; inappropriate
infelicitous
obdurate
intractable
candid
46. Shyness
ambivalence
connoisseur
fatuous
diffidence
47. Hint; imply; creep in
insinuate
derivative
esoteric
disparage
48. To calm or make less severe
mollify
plummet
log
aggrandize
49. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
ambivalence
disparage
plummet
venerate
50. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
recondite
contrite
soporific
truculent