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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. Something that discourages; hindrance
homogenous
deterrent
diatribe
innocuous
2. Abundant in size - force - or extent; extraordinary
maverick
prodigious
problematic
inimical
3. A universally recognized principle
bombast
grandiloquence
axiom
attenuate
4. Abstruse; profound; secret
querulous
redoubtable
recondite
plastic
5. Lacking sophistication or experience
astringent
stint
naive
grandiloquent
6. Filled with truth and accuracy
veracity
salubrious
prattle
laud
7. Pompous; using inflated language
bombastic
penurious
tirade
porous
8. Admirable
torpid
bombastic
estimable
austere
9. Abnormal or deviant
apathy
aberrant
ingenuous
capricious
10. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
abscond
irascible
qualms
tenacity
11. Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
penurious
contrite
assuage
convention
12. Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
bombastic
adulterate
veracity
nebulous
13. Sad; sullen; melancholy
converge
idolatry
morose
monotony
14. To remove blame
impede
exonerate
fledgling
morose
15. To dry out thoroughly
axiomatic
ingenuous
desiccate
gullible
16. Intense and passionate feeling
ardor
incorporate
wary
maverick
17. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
abate
inundate
euphemism
impervious
18. Useless; hopeless; ineffectual
futile
mollify
fervid
inherent
19. Reconciling; soothing
recondite
subside
precipitate
conciliatory
20. Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
obtuse
bolster
imminent
obdurate
21. An exaggerated statement - often used as a figure of speech
hyperbole
deference
discrepancy
tirade
22. Failure to act
castigation
pragmatic
default
nascent
23. Great disorder or confusion
inundate
inchoate
appease
chaos
24. One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
ingenuous
daunt
nebulous
iconoclast
25. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
precursor
derivative
halcyon
stolid
26. Revealing no emotion
arbitrate
veracious
impassive
secrete
27. Combine; unite in one body
satire
amalgamate
esoteric
stupefy
28. Quick to act without thinking
impetuous
fulminate
recalcitrant
fallacious
29. Base on experience
subside
malleable
empirical
insipid
30. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
spendthrift
abstemious
soporific
transient
31. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
cogent
proliferate
fortuitous
endemic
32. The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
hegemony
immutable
perspicacious
permeate
33. Soothe
discrete
mollify
demur
lucid
34. Docile; easily managed
chaos
tirade
condone
tractable
35. Irritable; easily angered
odious
irascible
strut
default
36. Brief and to the point
volatile
laconic
maverick
endemic
37. Trying to please by behaving obsequiously - flattering or cringing
stolid
burnish
plethora
fawning
38. Abuse
chicanery
fawning
invective
digression
39. Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
solicitous
shard
insularity
furtive
40. Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
strut
tacit
volatile
reticent
41. Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
disparate
vigilant
chauvinist
hyperbole
42. Comparable
abscond
analogous
nebulous
elegy
43. Brief; concise
extrapolation
document
disjointed
succinct
44. To block; thwart
untenable
confound
gouge
stymie
45. Immunity from punishment or penalty
abstemious
impunity
innocuous
facilitate
46. Arrogant presumption or pride
recant
hubris
amalgamate
advocate
47. Coiled around; involved; intricate
quiescent
disparate
convoluted
meticulous
48. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
prodigal
inured
onerous
salubrious
49. Disintegration; looseness in morals
approbation
dissolution
perfunctory
supersede
50. To permeate throughout
pervade
exculpate
discerning
elegy