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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous
perennial
meticulous
precipitate
boorish
2. Speech in praise of someone
eulogy
eclectic
fawning
onerous
3. Outdated; associated with an earlier - perhaps more primitive - time
perfidious
impecunious
archaic
luminous
4. Outgoing - sociable
taciturn
gregarious
obdurate
audacious
5. Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
apathy
obdurate
effrontery
veracious
6. Useless; hopeless; ineffectual
homogenous
futile
diatribe
disingenuous
7. Revealing no emotion
verbose
indolent
vacillate
impassive
8. Not moving - active - or in motion; at rest
default
static
apathy
rhetoric
9. Radiant; shiny; brilliant
occlude
refulgent
transitory
disparage
10. Lacking sophistication or experience
cogent
naive
corroborate
stipulate
11. Intensely emotional; feverish
emulate
aesthetic
fervid
disinterested
12. To remove blame
aggrandize
proclivity
exonerate
alacrity
13. Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
salubrious
reticent
credulous
vacillate
14. Spread throughout
canon
pervasive
stymie
pungent
15. Brief and concise in wording
stipulate
flout
enhance
terse
16. Sad; sullen; melancholy
prevaricate
inchoate
morose
queries
17. Learned; scholarly
paean
erudite
placate
derision
18. Inexperienced
dissemble
fledgling
grandiloquence
resolve
19. Done in a routine way; indifferent
artless
perfunctory
viscous
vex
20. Controversial; argumentative
propriety
porous
polemical
dogmatic
21. Calm and peaceful
halcyon
harangue
austere
erudite
22. Violating accepted dogma or convention
heretical
conundrum
vigilant
gregarious
23. To prevent; to make unnecessary
obviate
confound
decorum
analogous
24. Penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
permeable
tangential
flout
opprobium
25. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
spurious
quiescent
plummet
implode
26. Devotion to pleasurable pursuits - esp. to the pleasures of the senses
eclectic
appropriate
contrite
hedonism
27. Confuse; puzzle
intractable
confound
articulate
meticulous
28. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
precursor
ambiguous
metamorphosis
plethora
29. Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
pious
vacillate
maverick
vituperate
30. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
dismiss
oscillation
abstain
ostentation
31. Superficial; not thorough; lacking interest - care - or enthusiasm
perfunctory
acerbic
noxious
articulate
32. Peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
pervasive
tangential
verbose
catalyst
33. Troubling; burdensome
coagulate
grandiloquent
onerous
mundane
34. Thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals
disjointed
sparse
audacious
recondite
35. Joking (often inappropriately); humorous
facetious
meticulous
abyss
pristine
36. Trickery; deception
propitiate
erratic
fallacious
chicanery
37. To choose not to do something
inchoate
artless
refute
abstain
38. Dealing with - appreciative of - or responsive to art or the beautiful
exculpate
quaff
caustic
aesthetic
39. Be thrifty; set limits
penurious
precursor
stint
salubrious
40. Purify; refine; concentrate
distill
foment
inimical
dogmatic
41. To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
adulterate
complaisant
laconic
inveigle
42. Pertaining to disease
grandiloquence
imperturbable
impede
pathological
43. Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
onerous
placate
elegy
audacious
44. To satisfy fully or overindulge
effrontery
truculence
satiate
contrite
45. A natural predisposition or inclination
fortuitous
proclivity
audacious
plummet
46. Using few words; terse
laconic
cogent
vituperative
divest
47. Shining; issuing light
precursor
luminous
intractable
obviate
48. Potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
latent
analogous
mitigate
complaisant
49. Excess
plethora
archaic
erudite
recalcitrant
50. Arrogant presumption or pride
condone
latent
hubris
disparate