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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. An exaggerated statement - often used as a figure of speech
intransigent
torque
coda
hyperbole
2. To copy; to try to equal or excel
paradox
emulate
veracity
propensity
3. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
ubiquitous
supplant
lethargic
axiomatic
4. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
squalid
transgression
artless
neophyte
5. Silent - reserved
reticent
enhance
nascent
ubiquitous
6. Projection; superfluous
innocuous
pungent
extrapolation
latent
7. Power to produce desired effect
coagulate
efficacy
loquacious
disparate
8. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
ebullience
prevaricate
squander
satiate
9. Intensely emotional; feverish
recalcitrant
fervid
appropriate
oscillation
10. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
satiate
contentious
torpid
laud
11. Support; prop up
buttress
indifferent
iconoclast
reticent
12. Hermit; loner
recluse
tout
conundrum
solvent
13. Peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
analogous
ostentatious
tangential
ascetic
14. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
precipitate
laud
diverge
paradox
15. Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
deterrent
recondite
contiguous
aggrandize
16. Imitate; rival
eulogy
secrete
recondite
emulate
17. To count - list - or itemize
substantiate
fallacious
paragon
enumerate
18. Belittle
disparage
truculent
furtive
intractable
19. Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
insipid
distend
dirge
dogmatic
20. A firmly held opinion - often a religious belief
dogma
didactic
engender
appease
21. In an initial stage; not fully formed
compendium
caustic
inchoate
truculence
22. Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
queries
loquacious
mundane
euphemism
23. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
onerous
hyperbole
ambiguous
amenable
24. To praise highly
abate
enigma
dirge
laud
25. To reduce in amount - degree - or severity
mundane
pirate
abate
buttress
26. Concerning the appreciation of beauty
bombast
solicitous
aesthetic
infelicitous
27. Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
garrulous
esoteric
audacious
officious
28. To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate
immutable
convoluted
esoteric
vituperate
29. Worship of idols; excessive admiration
idolatry
gregarious
audacious
pith
30. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
terse
eclectic
bucolic
precursor
31. Grow forth; send out buds
burgeon
vituperative
plummet
furtive
32. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
disabuse
inundate
adulation
harangue
33. Hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
efficacy
banal
rarefy
impede
34. Calm; not easily disturbed
corroborate
phlegmatic
impassive
plasticity
35. Full of pores; like a sieve
indeterminate
porous
chicanery
partisan
36. Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
perennial
erudite
bombastic
impetuous
37. To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
invective
reproach
desiccate
bolster
38. Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
misanthrope
secrete
innocuous
ambiguous
39. Able to be molded - altered - or bent
abate
querulous
mitigate
plastic
40. Combine; unite in one body
amenable
amalgamate
confound
peruse
41. Lacking coherence
disjointed
plethora
craven
lethargic
42. Too trusting; gullible
dirge
elicit
credulous
ephemeral
43. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
unfeigned
zeal
refute
prodigal
44. Natural inclination
desultory
virulent
propensity
eloquent
45. Bright - brilliant - glowing
luminous
guile
rarefied
assuage
46. Of a similar kind
pious
buttress
desultory
homogenous
47. Comparable
eclectic
irresolute
squander
analogous
48. Uprightness; incorruptibility
gullible
ebullient
forestall
probity
49. Wandering away from the subject
digression
axiom
spectrum
condone
50. To undeceive; to set right
frugality
analogous
disabuse
shard