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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. Ancient - old-fashioned
abscond
archaic
appropriate
naive
2. Suspended action
abeyance
viscous
iconoclast
negate
3. Power to produce desired effect
connoisseur
axiomatic
malleable
efficacy
4. To dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care
preen
prevaricate
exacerbate
indifferent
5. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view
bombastic
derivative
skeptic
plethora
6. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
permeate
exacerbate
mitigate
fawn
7. Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
specious
queries
caustic
innocuous
8. Thick; sticky
attenuate
maverick
viscous
assuage
9. Irritable; easily angered
disparate
fallacious
irascible
daunt
10. To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
waver
assiduous
confound
pervasive
11. Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
recalcitrant
inchoate
dissonance
chauvinist
12. Exonerate; to clear of blame
disabuse
pervasive
idolatry
exculpate
13. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
prudence
reverent
oscillation
impassive
14. Languor; weariness
laconic
lassitude
esoteric
contention
15. Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant
qualms
vacillate
profuse
denigrate
16. Using few words
iconoclast
gullible
loquacious
laconic
17. Sleeping; lethargic; latent
skeptic
implode
dormant
advocate
18. Assert confidently or declare; as used in law - state formally as a fact
soporific
aggrandize
aver
paragon
19. To examine with great care
aberrant
peruse
decorum
dirge
20. Done without using words
tacit
censure
eloquent
laconic
21. Incapable of being pacified
arduous
reproach
implacable
gouge
22. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
tortuous
qualms
unfeigned
proclivity
23. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
inundate
didactic
dearth
morose
24. Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
placate
refulgent
pungent
glib
25. Attacking cherished traditions
substantiate
plummet
inured
iconoclast
26. Practical as opposed to idealistic
preen
pragmatic
aesthetic
porous
27. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule; abnormality
anomaly
exonerate
pristine
fanatical
28. To demonstrate contempt for - as in a rule or convention
aesthetic
flout
homogenous
dogmatic
29. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive - time
archaic
ambiguous
stupefy
spendthrift
30. Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
inured
disabuse
furtive
arduous
31. A sorrowful poem or speech
insipid
elegy
disparate
obsequious
32. To penetrate
dogma
permeate
philanthropy
abstain
33. Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
soporific
loquacious
deference
engender
34. To give unsparingly (V); Extremely generous or extravagant (ADJ)
ameliorate
misanthrope
eccentric
lavish
35. Vary; go in different directions from the same point
antipathy
diverge
hubris
accolade
36. A substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing
obsequious
austere
mitigate
catalyst
37. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
prosaic
specious
aberrant
amalgamate
38. Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
denigrate
disparate
paragon
opaque
39. Eliminate from consideration; reject
desiccate
dogmatic
dismiss
fulminate
40. Diligent; persistent; hard-working
acumen
polemical
sedulous
loquacious
41. To perceive; to recognize
parody
succinct
permeable
discern
42. Brief and concise in wording
terse
frugality
penchant
fawning
43. Brief - comprehensive summary
inert
impair
aberrant
compendium
44. Changing one's mind quickly and often
stolid
capricious
paean
aggrandize
45. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
ingenuous
dissemble
fawn
hegemony
46. Quarrelsome
cogent
contentious
burnish
emollient
47. Sociable
disabuse
gregarious
adulation
deference
48. Stubborn
loquacious
obdurate
abyss
supposition
49. Brief; fleeting
censure
occlude
ephemeral
welter
50. Grow forth; send out buds
burgeon
arduous
apathy
mercurial