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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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1. Convincing
cogent
trenchant
burgeon
impecunious
2. Truthfulness; honesty
mundane
propriety
veracity
bucolic
3. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted
pristine
pervasive
placate
astringent
4. Discord; opposite of harmony
sanction
truculence
dissonance
nebulous
5. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
specious
advocate
eccentric
fatuous
6. To combine several elements into a whole
implicit
aesthetic
querulous
amalgamate
7. Dull; impassive
inert
dissonance
stolid
officious
8. Clear and easily understood
lucid
sanction
meticulous
discretion
9. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
axiomatic
ebullient
burgeon
tacit
10. To obtain by deception or flattery
condone
inveigle
mitigate
imperturbable
11. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
grandiloquent
lucid
eclectic
culpable
12. Uncertain how to act; weak
alchemy
irresolute
oscillate
beneficent
13. Lasting a short time
skeptic
approbation
plasticity
ephemeral
14. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
paragon
phlegmatic
malleable
waver
15. To clear of blame
truculence
disingenuous
exonerate
ostentatious
16. Without feeling; imperturbable; stoical
impassive
prodigal
tirade
decorum
17. Worsen; embitter
exacerbate
caustic
decorum
veracious
18. Unpredictable; fickle
impervious
capricious
obviate
iconoclast
19. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
esoteric
insipid
rescind
proliferate
20. Lacking in flavor; dull
recalcitrant
tacit
viscous
insipid
21. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
abstemious
propitiate
plethora
truculent
22. To increase in power - influence - and reputation
beneficent
approbation
digression
aggrandize
23. Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
tirade
reticent
pragmatic
variegated
24. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
neophyte
aesthetic
ebullience
heretical
25. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
elicit
reticent
tirade
tortuous
26. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
neophyte
commensurate
malevolent
bolster
27. Pompous; grandiloquent
abate
equanimity
tractable
bombastic
28. Hinder - block
veracity
repudiate
grandiloquent
impede
29. Aggressiveness; ferocity
truculence
spectrum
gregarious
didactic
30. To copy; to try to equal or excel
emulate
monotony
lucid
paucity
31. To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
attenuate
abscond
banal
inveigle
32. Reject; mock; show contempt for
negate
impervious
complaisant
flout
33. Talkative
obdurate
garrulous
heretical
loquacious
34. Treacherous; disloyal
perfidious
rescind
sordid
reverent
35. Deviation form what is normal
anomaly
malingerer
contentious
amalgamate
36. Daring; bold
audacious
fervent
subtle
pith
37. Harmful; injurious
candid
noxious
diatribe
condone
38. Controversial; argumentative
foment
rarefied
vacillate
polemical
39. To make worse or more severe
exacerbate
impassive
anachronism
obstinate
40. Diligent
obdurate
irascible
pithy
assiduous
41. Hostile - unfriendly
fortuitous
mitigate
inimical
probity
42. Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
impervious
convoluted
stigma
opaque
43. Trickery or subterfuge
irascible
chicanery
nebulous
presumptuous
44. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
desultory
transient
sanction
decorum
45. The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart - esp. in forgiving
propriety
peruse
tenuous
magnanimity
46. Calm; not easily disturbed
phlegmatic
synthesis
diverge
ascetic
47. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
proliferate
laud
pedant
abscond
48. One who hates mankind
misanthrope
vituperate
credulous
anachronism
49. Fervent; ardent; impassioned
convoluted
acumen
odious
zealous
50. Attacking cherished traditions
impecunious
iconoclast
desultory
permeate