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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. Stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
appropriate
obfuscate
apathy
quiescence
2. Harmful; injurious
intrepid
deride
ostentation
noxious
3. Worship of idols; excessive admiration
connoisseur
tacit
pristine
idolatry
4. Disintegration; looseness in morals
aesthetic
dissolution
idolatry
inert
5. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
effrontery
profligate
fallacy
pine
6. A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect - esp. in literature and art
astringent
luminous
parody
banal
7. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
unfeigned
impermeable
contrite
censure
8. Approve; ratify
precursor
exacerbate
sanction
desiccate
9. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
implicit
pristine
spurious
propitiate
10. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
squander
burnish
belie
pithy
11. Shut; close
supposition
viable
garrulous
occlude
12. Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
endemic
contentious
antipathy
resolve
13. Someone who shows off learning
ascetic
disabuse
quiescence
pedant
14. Burning; sarcastically biting
disinterested
caustic
censure
pine
15. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
capricious
profound
inundate
prodigal
16. Natural inclination
warranted
subtle
propensity
inured
17. Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
relegate
salubrious
audacious
furtive
18. Severe criticism or punishment
castigation
dismiss
enervate
obsequious
19. Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
pervasive
secrete
occlude
magnanimity
20. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
prescience
diffidence
malingerer
misanthrope
21. Exaggeration; overstatement
probity
hyperbole
rhetoric
mitigate
22. To combine - to mix together
viable
diffident
dissemble
amalgamate
23. Unconscious; unresponsive
adulterate
prodigal
insensible
martial
24. Revere
foment
inchoate
pernicious
venerate
25. Introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite
plastic
exculpate
canonical
incorporate
26. To court favor by a flattering manner
commensurate
fawn
volatile
vacillate
27. To prevent; to make unnecessary
castigate
austere
harangue
obviate
28. Deviating from the norm
aberrant
contrite
synthesis
dissonance
29. Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
metamorphosis
intransigent
cogent
variegated
30. Causing sleep or lethargy
renege
erudite
soporific
esoteric
31. To penetrate
permeate
elicit
amalgamate
caustic
32. Expand; swell out
enigmatic
vituperative
distend
malleable
33. Devotion to pleasurable pursuits - esp. to the pleasures of the senses
lucid
deference
hedonism
laud
34. Unpredictable; fickle
tenuous
enhance
salubrious
capricious
35. Wisdom - caution - or restraint
dirge
assiduous
prudence
eulogy
36. Tending to talk a lot
stoic
contention
garrulous
untenable
37. Increase; improve
enhance
transitory
opprobrium
anomaly
38. Belittle
erudite
disparage
impetuous
admonish
39. Predictable - cliched - boring
stolid
aggregate
banal
pedagogy
40. Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
substantiate
decorum
dissolution
perfunctory
41. Lofty or grand
monotony
frugality
pathological
sublime
42. To conciliate; to appease
propitiate
morose
ephemeral
antipathy
43. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
flout
propensity
eloquent
permeable
44. Intimidate; frighten
daunt
gainsay
ameliorate
indifferent
45. To obstruct or block
prolific
prohibitive
occlude
onerous
46. Great disorder or confusion
accolade
whimsical
chaos
effrontery
47. Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
frugality
torque
adulterate
discrepancy
48. Lacking coherence
invective
dogmatic
disjointed
penury
49. Occurring irregularly
resolution
effrontery
caustic
sporadic
50. The essential or central part
static
extemporaneous
pith
luminous