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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. Able to speak clearly and expressively
connoisseur
articulate
perfunctory
tout
2. Lacking genuine candor; insincere
infelicitous
exigency
abstain
disingenuous
3. To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
pervasive
ameliorate
attenuate
elegy
4. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view
skeptic
pervasive
proliferate
evanescent
5. To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
proliferate
pervasive
platitude
discretion
6. Lasting a short time
ephemeral
apathy
chauvinist
effrontery
7. An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
disparate
quaff
proclivity
fallacy
8. Wisdom - caution - or restraint
specious
prudence
soporific
mitigate
9. Talkative
tacit
loquacious
spendthrift
penurious
10. To provide supporting evidence
immutable
contention
tacit
corroborate
11. Determination; firmness of purpose
disingenuous
plummet
aesthetic
resolve
12. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
decorum
onerous
inconsequential
condone
13. Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
sporadic
malleable
fortuitous
piety
14. To give praise; to glorify
belie
antipathy
digression
laud
15. Winding; full of curves
sparse
tortuous
substantiate
dogmatic
16. To arouse or incite
resolution
sanction
foment
extemporaneous
17. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
permeable
relegate
torpid
analogous
18. Earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding
prodigal
insipid
levee
embellish
19. Fitness; correct conduct
bombastic
convoluted
inadvertently
propriety
20. To block; thwart
redoubtable
stymie
inimical
mollify
21. To make better; to improve
garrulous
imperturbable
pernicious
ameliorate
22. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
lucid
dirge
discrete
convoluted
23. Temporary - lasting a brief time
fanatical
transitory
stymie
assiduous
24. To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
heretical
trenchant
malinger
fledgling
25. Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
stolid
placate
denigrate
negate
26. Overcharge
gouge
contention
dichotomy
pristine
27. Extreme dislike
ebullient
bolster
spectrum
antipathy
28. To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate
static
vituperate
compendium
caustic
29. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
subpoena
impecunious
tenuous
tirade
30. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
adulterate
innocuous
compendium
enigmatic
31. Inform
truculent
apprise
sage
exigent
32. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
convoluted
verbose
inundate
commensurate
33. Pompous; grandiloquent
torpor
bombastic
vituperative
laconic
34. To obstruct or block
abscond
boorish
lucid
occlude
35. Departing from norms or conventions
enigma
eccentric
cacaphony
tirade
36. Disprove
resolution
disabuse
refute
succinct
37. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
diatribe
axiomatic
malleable
diatribe
38. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
mollify
burgeon
disparate
naive
39. Acting in an indifferent or slow - sluggish manner
lethargic
grandiloquence
disabuse
rarefy
40. Known or understood by only a few
explicit
mitigate
esoteric
burnish
41. Pompous; using inflated language
dilatory
bombastic
stigma
pernicious
42. A funeral hymn or mournful speech
desultory
obstinate
pedantic
dirge
43. Sociable
dissemble
gregarious
occlude
obdurate
44. Writ summoning a witness to appear
lament
apprise
subpoena
venerate
45. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
tortuous
ambiguous
pragmatic
inchoate
46. Improvised; done without preparation
compliant
verbose
fulminate
extemporaneous
47. To set right; to free from error
abstemious
boorish
pervasive
disabuse
48. Pacify; conciliate
profligate
veracity
malingerer
placate
49. Calm; sluggish; unemotional
castigation
phlegmatic
subpoena
exculpate
50. Hinder - block
impede
pristine
compliant
anarchy