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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. Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
aver
subpoena
efficacy
eclectic
2. Improvised; done without preparation
contiguous
mitigate
zealous
extemporaneous
3. Lavish - wasteful
pristine
culpable
prodigal
desiccate
4. Disown; disavow
inadvertently
chaos
repudiate
ostentatious
5. Immunity from punishment or penalty
lucid
impunity
discretion
forestall
6. Intensely emotional; feverish
fervid
cogent
abate
hyperbole
7. Passion - excitement
belie
zeal
converge
placate
8. Brief; concise
levity
neophyte
insularity
succinct
9. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional)
fortuitous
specious
maverick
propitiate
10. A medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals - esp. base metals into gold
perfunctory
sanction
alchemy
luminous
11. Pertaining to disease
infelicitous
veracity
stymie
pathological
12. Hermit; loner
deride
decorum
recluse
discerning
13. Wordy
anomalous
futile
inchoate
verbose
14. Precise and brief
pithy
lucid
laconic
metamorphosis
15. Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
placate
abate
laconic
torpor
16. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
paean
strut
rhetoric
fatuous
17. An overabundance; a surplus
secrete
peruse
fulminate
plethora
18. To produce - cause - or bring about
placate
engender
soporific
savor
19. Persuasive and moving - especially in speech
spurious
plastic
recalcitrant
eloquent
20. Easily deceived
discordant
gullible
skeptic
astringent
21. Violation of a law; sin
viable
transgression
perennial
fawn
22. Lack of caring; indifference
apathy
fulminate
erratic
discordant
23. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
inchoate
derision
efficacy
resolve
24. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
caustic
paean
tangential
presumptuous
25. Capable of being shaped
esoteric
malleable
ubiquitous
explicit
26. To arouse or incite
vacillate
waver
foment
enigmatic
27. Droop; grow feeble
hackneyed
aberrant
flag
neophyte
28. Failure to act
dormant
candid
obtuse
default
29. To respect deeply
problematic
paucity
venerate
inured
30. Brief - comprehensive summary
compendium
artless
intrepid
proliferate
31. Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
enumerate
distill
irascible
ambiguous
32. Person celebrated for wisdom
perfunctory
harangue
sage
chauvinist
33. Causing sleep or lethargy
intractable
perfidy
soporific
magnanimity
34. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
equivocate
relegate
perennial
obviate
35. Improve
imminent
pungent
ameliorate
plethora
36. The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
hegemony
desultory
aesthetic
ephemeral
37. Thrift; economy
eulogy
discrepancy
castigate
frugality
38. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
welter
exculpate
neophyte
decorum
39. Provide written evidence
putrefy
document
venerate
voracious
40. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
euphemism
vituperate
permeable
iconoclast
41. Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
malevolent
exacerbate
inchoate
banal
42. Trite remark; commonplace statement
platitude
dissemble
inimical
meticulous
43. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
volatile
oscillation
obsequious
equivocate
44. Eliminate from consideration; reject
dismiss
abyss
articulate
probity
45. Thin; rare; slim
stipulate
tenuous
fawn
impervious
46. Playful; humorous
facetious
ennui
pernicious
caustic
47. Soothe
ostentatious
meticulous
mollify
diverge
48. Trickery or subterfuge
indolent
spurious
welter
chicanery
49. Pompous; using inflated language
propriety
dissonance
loquacious
bombastic
50. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
morose
convoluted
ostentatious
desultory