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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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Subjects
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To reduce in strength
fawning
enervate
furtive
ostentatious
2. Harmless
waver
innocuous
preamble
onerous
3. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
gouge
efficacy
vituperative
inundate
4. Power to produce desired effect
obdurate
lethargic
precipitate
efficacy
5. To make larger; to expand
exacerbate
dilate
assuage
extemporaneous
6. Implied; not explicitly stated
tacit
propitiate
rarefy
supersede
7. Kindly; doing good
beneficent
saturate
futile
abstemious
8. Disintegration; looseness in morals
tangential
dissolution
equivocate
pine
9. Infamy; vilification
tractable
adulation
opprobium
loquacious
10. At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
inconsequential
quiescent
rescind
prosaic
11. To clear from blame; prove innocent
exculpate
loquacious
insensible
frugality
12. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
placate
audacious
transient
pedantic
13. Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
precipitate
eclectic
repudiate
abscond
14. Wary; cautious; sparing
compendium
malleable
chary
prevaricate
15. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
vacillate
striated
pine
dogmatic
16. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
ambiguous
discordant
metamorphosis
imperturbable
17. Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
tenuous
subpoena
queries
immutable
18. Settle down; descend; grow quiet
oscillate
paragon
truculent
subside
19. Appease
propitiate
quixotic
canon
exonerate
20. Lacking funds; without money
deference
pristine
philanthropy
impecunious
21. Practical (as opposed to idealistic)
guileless
pragmatic
burgeon
capricious
22. Make shiny by rubbing; polish
solvent
lethargic
burnish
permeable
23. Increase; improve
plasticity
obtuse
gregarious
enhance
24. Scarcity
neophyte
mitigate
impunity
paucity
25. Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
ingenuous
discrete
recalcitrant
venerate
26. Attacking cherished traditions
iconoclast
guileless
contention
effrontery
27. Lacking sophistication or experience
verbose
naive
profound
malleable
28. Fervent; ardent; impassioned
platitude
zealous
artless
volatile
29. Radiant; shiny; brilliant
refulgent
mercurial
apathy
elegy
30. To undeceive; to set right
obstinate
disabuse
quiescent
officious
31. To combine - to mix together
vacillate
ambiguous
amalgamate
mitigate
32. To stun - baffle - or amaze
transient
placate
guile
stupefy
33. Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
sordid
anachronism
solvent
waver
34. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view
fledgling
luminous
tacit
skeptic
35. Great disorder or confusion
lucid
truculence
pristine
chaos
36. Improvised; done without preparation
rhetoric
extemporaneous
obstinate
perennial
37. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
enervate
demur
advocate
laconic
38. Immunity from punishment or penalty
impunity
laud
gregarious
substantiate
39. Concerning the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
dormant
dirge
polemical
40. Foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals
inimical
ebullient
quixotic
dogmatic
41. Quick - keen - or accurate knowledge or insight
audacious
condone
acumen
stipulate
42. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
capricious
default
eloquent
convoluted
43. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
pernicious
obsequious
efficacy
surfeit
44. Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in several ways
derivative
ambiguous
noxious
germane
45. To lessen in intensity or degree
dichotomy
abate
squalid
veracious
46. To prevent; to make unnecessary
innocuous
obviate
placate
inimical
47. To perceive; to recognize
taciturn
renege
discern
approbation
48. Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
intractable
buttress
opaque
fervor
49. Practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
perfunctory
paragon
conciliatory
viable
50. Grow forth; send out buds
lament
transient
burgeon
adulterate