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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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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. Uncertain how to act; weak
irresolute
ephemeral
ephemeral
supplant
2. To combine - to mix together
conundrum
acerbic
amalgamate
distend
3. Exonerate; to clear of blame
digression
exculpate
sordid
impunity
4. Accustomed; hardened
inured
malleable
renege
tortuous
5. Short-lived; fleeting
ephemeral
solicitous
lassitude
impecunious
6. Record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities
permeable
catalyst
log
extrapolation
7. Punishment; severe criticism
castigation
permeate
erudite
loquacious
8. Base on experience
inimical
empirical
burgeon
inured
9. Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
foment
abstain
penchant
inchoate
10. Ability to be molded
sparse
levity
plasticity
attenuate
11. A funeral hymn or mournful speech
bolster
dirge
imperturbable
luminous
12. Precise and brief
pithy
rancorous
alchemy
impair
13. To obtain by deception or flattery
inveigle
repudiate
elegy
whimsical
14. Worsen; embitter
deference
exacerbate
anomalous
inherent
15. Learned - scholarly - bookish
plethora
magnanimity
perennial
erudite
16. To judge a dispute between two opposing parties
precipitate
compliant
daunt
arbitrate
17. To make something unpleasant less sever
impermeable
empirical
assuage
proliferate
18. Inactive; lacking power to move
dissemble
pedant
inert
pirate
19. To reduce in strength
diffidence
enervate
flag
austere
20. Trying to please by behaving obsequiously - flattering or cringing
fawning
savor
advocate
amalgamate
21. Burst inward
implode
dissemble
disinterested
soporific
22. Lacking in flavor; dull
insensible
ebullience
derision
insipid
23. Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
relegate
plummet
plummet
striated
24. Using few words
laconic
bolster
gregarious
desultory
25. A disposition in favor of something; preference
perfunctory
predilection
piety
audacious
26. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
desultory
meticulous
deterrent
presumptuous
27. Abnormal or deviant
salubrious
elicit
castigation
aberrant
28. Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
diffidence
warranted
soporific
supersede
29. Disgrace; contempt; scorn
endemic
opprobrium
ascetic
prattle
30. Cancel out; nullify; deny
condone
eccentric
negate
imminent
31. Diligent; persistent; hard-working
shard
sedulous
recant
advocate
32. Reconciling; soothing
foment
prodigal
digression
conciliatory
33. Causing sleep or lethargy
commensurate
soporific
presumptuous
engender
34. Lie - mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
obsequious
partisan
equivocate
impermeable
35. Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
recondite
artless
probity
deference
36. To stun - baffle - or amaze
pedantic
stupefy
dilettante
truculent
37. Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic
dogmatic
ingenuous
austere
malleable
38. Pompous; grandiloquent
loquacious
bombastic
anarchy
recondite
39. Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
tortuous
discordant
ingenuous
voracious
40. Easily understood; clear; intelligible
lucid
fledgling
bombastic
laud
41. An abusive - condemnatory speech
catalyst
tirade
diatribe
banal
42. Approach; tend to meet; come together
perfidy
diffuse
converge
fledgling
43. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
rhetoric
metaphor
substantiate
malinger
44. Unfortunate; inappropriate
dissemble
prudence
prescience
infelicitous
45. Shyness
attenuate
diffidence
ambivalence
squander
46. Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
idolatrous
dupe
ennui
homogenous
47. Confuse; puzzle
tenuous
archaic
complaisant
confound
48. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
laud
volatile
euphemism
astringent
49. Damaging; harmful; injurious
iconoclast
eulogy
austere
inimical
50. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
impede
convoluted
meticulous
neophyte