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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. Harmless; causing no damage
innocuous
precipitate
artless
insularity
2. Daring; bold
vacillate
audacious
soporific
efficacy
3. Easily deceived
proclivity
gullible
erudite
pious
4. Clear; easily understood
mollify
vexation
lucid
contrite
5. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
obstinate
vituperative
metaphor
implicit
6. Sophisticated; refined; elegant
aggrandize
urbane
connoisseur
vigilant
7. Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
desultory
obtuse
assuage
proliferate
8. Abnormal or deviant
trenchant
aberrant
dissolution
elegy
9. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
engender
empirical
inundate
credulous
10. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
bombast
stolid
pervasive
subtle
11. Lament with music
propitiate
dirge
alacrity
hyperbole
12. Insignificant; unimportant
inconsequential
accolade
belie
diverge
13. Improvised; done without preparation
satire
extemporaneous
analogous
inured
14. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
belie
obstinate
diatribe
aver
15. To praise highly
abate
laud
implacable
polemical
16. Promoting health or well-being
fervent
salubrious
impervious
pedantic
17. Waver; fluctuate
vacillate
approbation
goad
verbose
18. One who hates all other humans
eccentric
misanthrope
eclectic
connoisseur
19. Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread
ubiquitous
disinterested
recalcitrant
proscribe
20. Revere
ostentatious
venerate
efficacy
oscillation
21. Lofty or grand
sublime
inured
delineate
desiccate
22. To reject the validity of
repudiate
permeate
inchoate
audacious
23. A new word - expression - or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
neologism
lassitude
specious
condone
24. Impartial and honest in speech
squalid
austere
candid
officious
25. Cowardly
implode
platitude
harangue
craven
26. The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart - esp. in forgiving
malleable
truculent
striated
magnanimity
27. Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality - region - or people
endemic
spectrum
prodigious
attenuate
28. To clear of blame
diffidence
exonerate
disingenuous
emulate
29. An exaggerated statement - often used as a figure of speech
audacious
hyperbole
levity
static
30. Showing off learning; bookish
amenable
deride
pedantic
disparate
31. Projection; superfluous
convoluted
extrapolation
proliferate
banal
32. The art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
torpid
innocuous
dilate
rhetoric
33. Excessive showiness
intransigent
articulate
ostentation
adulterate
34. Quick - keen - or accurate knowledge or insight
misanthrope
acumen
tacit
diverge
35. Person celebrated for wisdom
phlegmatic
problematic
sage
erudite
36. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
garrulous
euphemism
peruse
elegy
37. Fragment; generally of pottery
shard
felicitous
aesthetic
vituperate
38. Calm and peaceful
halcyon
rarefied
veracity
buttress
39. Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
gainsay
ameliorate
contentious
frugality
40. Absence of governing body; state of disorder
extrapolation
zealous
idolatrous
anarchy
41. A natural predisposition or inclination
pungent
reverent
proclivity
dirge
42. Truthful
veracious
squalid
perfunctory
repudiate
43. To loudly attack or denounce
penury
axiomatic
fulminate
prevaricate
44. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule; abnormality
disabuse
waver
anomaly
rarefy
45. Excessive praise; intense adoration
renege
adulation
perennial
disabuse
46. Very cautious
wary
venerate
satiate
diffidence
47. Penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
permeable
aberrant
probity
volatile
48. Characterized by bitter - long-lasting resentment
dismiss
appease
dissemble
rancorous
49. Temporary - lasting a brief time
disparate
felicitous
transitory
divest
50. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
amalgamate
ostentatious
welter
voracious