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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Following or in agreement with accepted - traditional standards
porous
connoisseur
refractory
canonical
2. Accustomed; hardened
commensurate
inured
disseminate
insensible
3. Fitness; correct conduct
propriety
elegy
exculpate
paean
4. To waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; to waver
occlude
vacillate
welter
precursor
5. To sway physically; to be indecisive
anachronism
approbation
emollient
vacillate
6. Not fully formed; disorganized
digression
eccentric
luminous
inchoate
7. Unpredictable; fickle
reverent
austere
capricious
solicitous
8. Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
candid
voracious
penurious
discrete
9. To express sorrow; to grieve
approbation
verbose
lament
viscous
10. Violating accepted dogma or convention
capricious
heretical
culpable
obtuse
11. Sharp and irritating to the senses
stipulate
precursor
connoisseur
pungent
12. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
spendthrift
capricious
archaic
perfidious
13. Recent convert; beginner
intractable
neophyte
discredit
idolatrous
14. Poverty; destitution
dilettante
austere
convoluted
penury
15. Eliminate from consideration; reject
onerous
articulate
dismiss
precarious
16. Languor; weariness
lassitude
fatuous
laud
misanthrope
17. Abuse
invective
idolatrous
misanthrope
prodigious
18. Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
engender
queries
dormant
malleable
19. Uncertain; risky
recluse
profligate
precarious
martial
20. To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
onerous
obviate
discerning
prattle
21. Coiled around; involved; intricate
bombastic
vacillate
grandiloquence
convoluted
22. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
fulminate
paragon
abate
tirade
23. Lack of caring; indifference
apathy
ephemeral
lavish
emulate
24. Brief and concise in wording
plasticity
fervor
terse
pungent
25. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
pious
chaos
admonish
obsequious
26. Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
gouge
intransigent
bolster
dilettante
27. Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
chary
germane
opaque
platitude
28. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
intransigence
assuage
disparate
dichotomy
29. Thick; sticky
ameliorate
viscous
frugality
chicanery
30. Not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
astringent
tacit
impermeable
subtle
31. Lacking self-confidence
disjointed
neophyte
diffident
tacit
32. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
bombast
tirade
halcyon
recant
33. Unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly
pragmatic
inadvertently
innocuous
obdurate
34. Combine; unite in one body
erratic
amalgamate
flout
contentious
35. Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
emulate
mendacious
catalyst
discretion
36. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
qualified
welter
dissonance
diatribe
37. A tendency to be thrifty or cheap
tacit
rescind
decorum
frugality
38. Stir up; instigate
ambiguous
disinterested
viscous
foment
39. Make express conditions - specify
discrete
stipulate
fervor
propriety
40. Exaggeration; overstatement
hyperbole
hackneyed
conciliatory
lethargic
41. Change of form
metamorphosis
lament
equivocate
dogmatic
42. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
rhetoric
exonerate
anomalous
amenable
43. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
disjointed
strut
paean
esoteric
44. Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
castigation
apathy
reticent
truculent
45. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound; dissonance
austere
convoluted
cacophony
implacable
46. Long - harsh speech or verbal attack
predilection
tirade
idolatrous
mundane
47. To soften; to lessen
cynicism
secrete
solvent
mitigate
48. Urgent; requiring immediate action
austere
exigent
obsequious
perfunctory
49. Severe criticism or punishment
dichotomy
castigation
idolatry
bombast
50. Approach; tend to meet; come together
laud
enervate
obfuscate
converge