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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. Hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
torque
contrite
banal
subpoena
2. Sociable
futile
reproach
gregarious
capricious
3. To make something unpleasant less sever
banal
assuage
problematic
welter
4. To fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
garrulous
propitiate
renege
explicit
5. To perceive; to recognize
volatile
discern
specious
maverick
6. Naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated
ingenuous
predilection
articulate
capricious
7. Effective writing or speaking
austere
implode
rhetoric
derision
8. Wandering away from the subject
digression
hyperbole
deride
sparse
9. Lack of harmony; absurdity
penury
pristine
incongruity
lassitude
10. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
laconic
iconoclast
desultory
empirical
11. Reconciling; soothing
conciliatory
parody
quotidian
recalcitrant
12. Unruly; stubborn; unyielding
cogent
intractable
enigma
euphemism
13. Intended to teach or instruct
whimsical
didactic
levity
reticent
14. Firmly established by nature or habit
intransigent
esoteric
inherent
squalid
15. Disguise; pretend
dissemble
disjointed
meticulous
banal
16. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
misanthrope
specious
trenchant
stigma
17. Model of excellence or perfection
paragon
irresolute
pedant
disabuse
18. To produce - cause - or bring about
buttress
empirical
engender
perfunctory
19. Soothe
mundane
archaic
mollify
ostentatious
20. Lacking interest or flavor
florid
intrepid
bombastic
insipid
21. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
tirade
inured
grandiloquence
approbation
22. To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
disinterested
attenuate
morose
opprobrium
23. Wordy
sage
confound
verbose
hubris
24. Complex or complicated
inert
tenacity
convoluted
inveigle
25. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
tacit
appropriate
assuage
log
26. To disclose something secret
tenuous
aesthetic
dissemble
divulge
27. Characterized by filth - grime - or squalor; foul
exculpate
exigency
embellish
sordid
28. Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
proscribe
proclivity
implacable
euphemism
29. A piece of broken pottery or glass
squander
alacrity
shard
redoubtable
30. To obtain by deception or flattery
volatile
imperturbable
quiescent
inveigle
31. Exonerate; to clear of blame
alleviate
putrefy
exculpate
discrepancy
32. Blacken
explicit
garrulous
denigrate
queries
33. Greatly emotional or zealous
discerning
fervent
sporadic
dilettante
34. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
capricious
maverick
disparage
mitigate
35. Claim; thesis
penurious
discretion
ambiguous
contention
36. Treacherous; disloyal
perfidious
diffident
deference
rarefied
37. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
convoluted
disparate
insipid
veracity
38. Exaggeration; overstatement
inchoate
hyperbole
profound
abstain
39. Help bring about; make less difficult
eloquent
facilitate
demur
paradox
40. One who hates all other humans
anachronism
misanthrope
derision
meticulous
41. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
torpid
disparage
perspicacious
veracious
42. Rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
secrete
reticent
bucolic
idolatry
43. Harsh - jarring noise
superfluous
amenable
cacaphony
insipid
44. Characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled
tenuous
pristine
default
effrontery
45. Adherence to highest principles; uprightness
vituperate
fallacious
probity
supplant
46. To reduce in strength
malinger
enervate
adulterate
salubrious
47. To clear from blame; prove innocent
exculpate
axiomatic
aberrant
arbitrate
48. To give unsparingly (V); Extremely generous or extravagant (ADJ)
prohibitive
vacillate
accolade
lavish
49. Poverty
indigence
intrepid
dissonance
aver
50. Lacking in flavor; dull
insipid
prevaricate
sublime
admonish