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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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Subjects
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Talkative
partisan
castigation
luminous
loquacious
2. Something out of place in time
implicit
idolatrous
anachronism
stolid
3. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted
pristine
stupefy
opaque
fortuitous
4. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
cogent
foment
inimical
endemic
5. Characterized by a strong - sharp smell or taste
burgeon
pungent
alleviate
enigma
6. Capable of being shaped
malleable
perspicacious
impervious
probity
7. Shut; close
burgeon
occlude
sanction
obdurate
8. To stun - baffle - or amaze
probity
pithy
malleable
stupefy
9. Concerned and attentive; eager
precarious
cacaphony
solicitous
placate
10. To drink deeply
opaque
volatile
wary
quaff
11. Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
placate
nebulous
adulation
insipid
12. Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
probity
coagulate
specious
subtle
13. Improvised; done without preparation
cacophony
homogenous
amalgamate
extemporaneous
14. Causing sleep or lethargy
soporific
luminous
volatile
glib
15. Immunity from punishment or penalty
impunity
dogmatic
fervent
irascible
16. To lessen in intensity or degree
abate
obviate
whimsical
vituperate
17. Dull; unimaginative
prosaic
solvent
disparate
taciturn
18. A mark of shame or discredit
relegate
stipulate
indeterminate
stigma
19. To leave secretly
abscond
torque
mollify
impervious
20. To satisfy fully or overindulge
engender
prevaricate
satiate
paradox
21. Cancel out; nullify; deny
probity
guile
mitigate
negate
22. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound; dissonance
rhetoric
cacophony
advocate
axiomatic
23. Practical rather than idealistic
magnanimity
pragmatic
whimsical
glib
24. Disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error
onerous
recant
misanthrope
repudiate
25. To give praise; to glorify
magnanimity
solicious
laud
ambiguous
26. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
grandiloquent
prodigal
extrapolation
fawning
27. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
abeyance
inert
welter
quixotic
28. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
chicanery
succinct
lethargic
fatuous
29. To sway physically; to be indecisive
vacillate
luminous
fervid
secrete
30. Kindly; doing good
ambiguous
erudite
beneficent
fervor
31. Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
deride
opaque
inchoate
reticent
32. Superficial; not thorough; lacking interest - care - or enthusiasm
perfunctory
exculpate
strut
bombastic
33. A superficial remark - esp. one offered as meaningful
platitude
insensible
obfuscate
pious
34. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
irascible
volatile
stint
candid
35. To increase in power - influence - and reputation
placate
aggrandize
synthesis
catalyst
36. Approach; tend to meet; come together
exigent
dilate
converge
condone
37. Basically different; unrelated
disparate
viscous
supersede
enhance
38. Limited; restricted
solicious
ascetic
vigilant
qualified
39. Eager and enthusiastic willingness
alacrity
coagulate
log
culpable
40. Marked by - feeling - or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
reverent
bucolic
amalgamate
recondite
41. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
mitigate
harangue
amenable
abate
42. Colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
sanction
quiescent
dilettante
spectrum
43. Lavish - wasteful
prodigal
putrefy
aggrandize
fawning
44. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
savor
spurious
opaque
inured
45. Acquire; take possession of for one's own use
vacillate
appropriate
indolent
archaic
46. Attacking cherished traditions
immutable
antipathy
iconoclast
lucid
47. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
discrete
malleable
innocuous
mercurial
48. Departing from norms or conventions
repudiate
pervade
eccentric
hubris
49. Combine; unite in one body
amalgamate
disseminate
stigma
qualified
50. A sorrowful poem or speech
irascible
catalyst
laconic
elegy