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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
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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. Daring; bold
intractable
polemical
audacious
penchant
2. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
amenable
dilate
malingerer
attenuate
3. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
bolster
insipid
inured
ephemeral
4. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
complaisant
implacable
intrepid
censure
5. Make unnecessary; get rid of
zeal
impetuous
cynicism
obviate
6. To remove blame
implacable
amalgamate
exonerate
precipitate
7. A firmly held opinion - often a religious belief
ephemeral
cynicism
dogma
iconoclast
8. Forerunner; harbinger
precursor
precipitate
daunt
preamble
9. Sharing a border; touching; adjacent
derivative
sage
contiguous
castigation
10. Intentional breach of faith; treachery
sage
perfidy
penurious
indeterminate
11. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
squander
endemic
occlude
enumerate
12. Split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
mundane
dichotomy
prevaricate
exigent
13. Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
bombastic
dogmatic
volatile
eloquent
14. To dry out thoroughly
mendacity
innocuous
desiccate
castigate
15. Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
astringent
articulate
embellish
convention
16. Burning; sarcastically biting
castigation
caustic
vigilant
implacable
17. Support; prop up
buttress
specious
misanthrope
effrontery
18. To give unsparingly (V); Extremely generous or extravagant (ADJ)
lavish
pine
abate
inimical
19. Practical rather than idealistic
pragmatic
gullible
soporific
paragon
20. Unruly; stubborn; unyielding
extrapolation
converge
intractable
tirade
21. Departing from norms or conventions
eccentric
extrapolation
desultory
prattle
22. To loudly attack or denounce
inured
tenuous
fulminate
tacit
23. To satisfy fully or overindulge
impervious
sporadic
satiate
opprobrium
24. Poverty
elegy
discretion
antipathy
indigence
25. A piece of broken pottery or glass
polemical
prodigal
torpid
shard
26. Made less dense (of a gas)
tirade
trenchant
hyperbole
rarefied
27. Severe poverty; stinginess
synthesis
dissemble
penury
quixotic
28. Ostracize; banish; outlaw
proscribe
venerate
obtuse
attenuate
29. Not capable of being disturbed
dormant
candid
imperturbable
tortuous
30. Minor objection or complaint
preen
supposition
morose
quibble
31. To penetrate
enervate
permeate
indigence
neologism
32. Lacking sophistication or experience
trenchant
naive
pragmatic
monotony
33. Devotion to pleasurable pursuits - esp. to the pleasures of the senses
static
didactic
hedonism
demur
34. Soak thoroughly
precursor
saturate
coagulate
rhetoric
35. Dictatorial in one's opinions
resolve
dogmatic
castigation
impassive
36. Writ summoning a witness to appear
subpoena
elegy
contrite
lavish
37. Intense and passionate feeling
abate
ardor
tirade
deterrent
38. Expand; swell out
pungent
distend
resolve
dilatory
39. To arouse or incite
deference
condone
ebullience
foment
40. Wisdom - caution - or restraint
banal
stoic
prudence
levee
41. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
diverge
implacable
abscond
occlude
42. To anticipate and make unnecessary
convoluted
abscond
occlude
obviate
43. Poem or song expressing lamentation
misanthrope
dissonance
exculpate
elegy
44. Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
quotidian
presumptuous
ambiguous
amalgamate
45. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
eclectic
supersede
prescience
corroborate
46. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
hedonism
onerous
reprobate
recalcitrant
47. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view
vituperate
truculence
intrepid
skeptic
48. Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
savor
adulterate
impunity
didactic
49. Pacify; conciliate
chicanery
profound
placate
aggregate
50. Failure to act
facilitate
default
tacit
presumptuous