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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. Calm; placid
implode
extemporaneous
chaos
imperturbable
2. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
esoteric
flout
naive
propitiate
3. Shyness
diffidence
lavish
meticulous
artless
4. Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
coagulate
lucid
perspicacious
ambiguous
5. Dealing with - appreciative of - or responsive to art or the beautiful
guile
rescind
warranted
aesthetic
6. Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
viscous
reprobate
obfuscate
whimsical
7. Concerning the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
opprobrium
maverick
metaphor
8. Languor; weariness
viable
lassitude
condone
alacrity
9. Understood but not stated
vituperative
implicit
contrite
contrite
10. To obstruct or block
aesthetic
precursor
occlude
sublime
11. Discordant; inharmonious
officious
cacophonous
negate
rarefy
12. Lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
ascetic
inherent
verbose
torpor
13. Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
empirical
canonical
tenuous
transient
14. Sophisticated; refined; elegant
urbane
approbation
chicanery
engender
15. One who feigns illness to escape duty
maverick
malingerer
vigilant
virulent
16. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
eclectic
innocuous
fortuitous
convention
17. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
volatile
gainsay
connoisseur
aggregate
18. Improve
desultory
ameliorate
audacious
rarefy
19. Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
soporific
pine
urbane
reticent
20. Intimidate; frighten
satire
fallacy
pragmatic
daunt
21. Praise
dissemble
vacillate
laud
explicit
22. Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
implacable
grandiloquence
obdurate
banal
23. Characterized by a strong - sharp smell or taste
mundane
pungent
burnish
desultory
24. Calm and peaceful
facilitate
waver
halcyon
evanescent
25. Abundant in size - force - or extent; extraordinary
veracity
prodigious
diatribe
reticent
26. Brief - comprehensive summary
ameliorate
compendium
converge
contrite
27. Base on experience
empirical
pungent
obviate
abate
28. Implied; not explicitly stated
alchemy
qualified
dissolution
tacit
29. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
impervious
placate
ingenuous
dissonance
30. Belittle
imperturbable
disparage
caustic
implacable
31. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
proscribe
eclectic
relegate
precipitate
32. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
torpor
impetuous
solvent
acumen
33. Strip; deprive
exculpate
harangue
repudiate
divest
34. To dry out thoroughly
terse
enervate
desiccate
document
35. Draw out by discussion
elicit
opaque
tractable
accolade
36. To annoy or provoke to anger
felicitous
engender
propitiate
antagonize
37. To disguise or conceal; to mislead
distend
officious
dissemble
stymie
38. Tending to talk a lot
erudite
garrulous
convoluted
malleable
39. Harmless
forestall
prodigal
innocuous
inconsequential
40. Excess; overabundance
avarice
discrete
plethora
goad
41. Quick to act without thinking
chary
impetuous
glib
meticulous
42. A substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing
catalyst
implacable
vituperative
aver
43. Dictatorial in one's opinions
bucolic
penury
disparage
dogmatic
44. To grow rapidly or flourish
fanatical
burgeon
skeptic
reverent
45. Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
superfluous
reverent
eclectic
parody
46. Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday
laud
tirade
mundane
aggrandize
47. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
propensity
desiccate
austere
ambiguous
48. To slight or belittle
disparage
efficacy
culpable
buttress
49. An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
austere
culpable
log
fallacy
50. Pacify; conciliate
assuage
presumptuous
bombastic
placate