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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. Artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
ingenuous
stupefy
esoteric
onerous
2. Vary; go in different directions from the same point
porous
diverge
subside
perfunctory
3. Acquire; take possession of for one's own use
burnish
abate
mitigate
appropriate
4. Convincing and well reasoned
enumerate
cogent
mitigate
rescind
5. One who hates mankind
propitiate
enigmatic
misanthrope
eulogy
6. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
germane
incorporate
cogent
waver
7. Spread throughout
pervasive
solvent
erudite
anarchy
8. Harmful; injurious
volatile
noxious
malleable
equivocate
9. The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
canonical
default
archaic
tenacity
10. Promoting health or well-being
dogmatic
aberrant
salubrious
contrite
11. Person celebrated for wisdom
obviate
amalgamate
recalcitrant
sage
12. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
eloquent
stint
precursor
grandiloquence
13. Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
pious
venerate
perfunctory
audacious
14. To soften; to lessen
lucid
obdurate
mitigate
eloquent
15. To reduce in strength
complaisance
enervate
sparse
rescind
16. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
hedonism
qualms
luminous
malleable
17. To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
prattle
aesthetic
volatile
filibuster
18. To provide supporting evidence
corroborate
itinerary
vacillate
veracity
19. Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
supposition
reticent
fawn
morose
20. Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
stigma
warranted
contrite
inimical
21. Immunity from punishment or penalty
impunity
perfunctory
tenuous
aesthetic
22. Indifferent; free from self-interest
hyperbole
oscillation
chaos
disinterested
23. To dry out thoroughly
disparate
desiccate
placate
neophyte
24. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
volatile
tenuous
flag
filibuster
25. Practical rather than idealistic
pragmatic
dilettante
disparate
estimable
26. Plan of a trip
foment
truculent
itinerary
peruse
27. Without guile; open and honest
artless
tenuous
obdurate
aberrant
28. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
disinterested
hedonism
prescience
salubrious
29. Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
sporadic
reticent
disabuse
tenuous
30. To make thinner or sparser
antipathy
empirical
malevolent
rarefy
31. One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
mitigate
ubiquitous
iconoclast
loquacious
32. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
reticent
oscillation
tacit
culpable
33. An expression of approval or praise
catalyst
supplant
abstain
approbation
34. Increase; improve
profound
penchant
enhance
sedulous
35. Easily understood; clear; intelligible
lucid
specious
impassive
pungent
36. Unfortunate; inappropriate
morose
infelicitous
hyperbole
frugality
37. Severe criticism or punishment
castigation
parody
erudite
engender
38. Excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous
laconic
obsequious
endemic
meticulous
39. Unruly; stubborn; unyielding
intractable
abyss
dormant
rhetoric
40. The willingness to comply with the wishes of others
quibble
complaisance
equanimity
pristine
41. Cancel out; nullify; deny
perfunctory
negate
banal
erudite
42. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
proliferate
stoic
pedantic
secrete
43. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
prolific
delineate
repudiate
immutable
44. To obstruct or block
contention
desiccate
convoluted
occlude
45. Depart secretly and hide
coda
sporadic
abscond
paradox
46. Abnormal; irregular
laud
neophyte
probity
anomalous
47. Daring; bold
alacrity
hyperbole
subside
audacious
48. Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
vexation
effrontery
abyss
mundane
49. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
fortuitous
estimable
oscillate
placate
50. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
stigma
squalid
cogent
connoisseur