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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
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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. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
ambiguous
taciturn
itinerary
propensity
2. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
assuage
aesthetic
welter
viable
3. Settle down; descend; grow quiet
catalyst
subside
querulous
diverge
4. Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
impetuous
bolster
putrefy
hegemony
5. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
prescience
odious
irascible
banal
6. Deny
ennui
anomaly
imperturbable
gainsay
7. Concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that summarizes
coda
volatile
recant
contentious
8. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
dormant
adulterate
torpid
aesthetic
9. Shut; close
occlude
intractable
presumptuous
astringent
10. Diligent
quixotic
superfluous
assiduous
frugality
11. False; misleading
probity
truculent
supersede
fallacious
12. Long - passionate - and vehement speech
harangue
foment
malinger
torpid
13. Very learned; scholarly
erudite
sanction
virulent
desiccate
14. Determination; firmness of purpose
resolve
opprobrium
accolade
engender
15. Easily made angry
irascible
reprobate
prattle
perennial
16. Dry up
desiccate
stint
levity
aesthetic
17. To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
repudiate
diatribe
prattle
chaos
18. Having a sour or bitter taste or character
acerbic
pervade
convoluted
dormant
19. Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
archaic
chauvinist
tacit
arduous
20. Scarcity
paucity
compliant
converge
aggrandize
21. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
conundrum
caustic
profligate
immutable
22. Combine; unite in one body
philanthropy
admonish
amalgamate
forestall
23. A harsh denunciation
zeal
diatribe
esoteric
austere
24. The willingness to comply with the wishes of others
complaisance
attenuate
disparate
neologism
25. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
desiccate
placate
insipid
stipulate
26. To annoy or provoke to anger
zealot
fanatical
exigent
antagonize
27. Wasteful; reckless with money
prodigal
pithy
supposition
insipid
28. To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
elegy
precipitate
attenuate
effrontery
29. The essential or central part
pith
connoisseur
chaos
filibuster
30. Basically different; unrelated
dissemble
chaos
inured
disparate
31. Lazy
indolent
mitigate
engender
innocuous
32. Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
hackneyed
tenuous
neophyte
grandiloquent
33. A disposition in favor of something; preference
antipathy
predilection
tractable
ameliorate
34. Pompous; grandiloquent
quiescent
banal
zealous
bombastic
35. Fervent; ardent; impassioned
peruse
zealous
avarice
idolatrous
36. Relieve
alleviate
germane
explicit
discrete
37. Occurring irregularly
proscribe
sporadic
default
impetuous
38. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
levee
whimsical
capricious
emulate
39. Violation of a law; sin
anachronism
plastic
transgression
inert
40. To reject the validity of
fawn
repudiate
pervasive
probity
41. Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
grandiloquence
malleable
austere
lethargic
42. Given to intense or excessive devotion to something
impetuous
idolatrous
alacrity
lethargic
43. Split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
tenacity
dichotomy
stipulate
diatribe
44. To increase in number quickly
proliferate
hubris
acumen
adulterate
45. Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
credulous
pirate
meticulous
tenuous
46. Pure; uncorrupted; clean
contention
pernicious
pristine
surfeit
47. Claim; thesis
contention
loquacious
mundane
precipitate
48. Able to speak clearly and expressively
articulate
reverent
discredit
specious
49. To undeceive; to set right
disabuse
dilettante
paragon
perennial
50. Cheerful promptness; eagerness
nascent
alacrity
viscous
transitory