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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
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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. Introductory statement
preamble
quixotic
transient
strut
2. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
inconsequential
torpor
attenuate
ebullience
3. To produce - cause - or bring about
innocuous
impervious
engender
perspicacious
4. To respect deeply
synthesis
arduous
venerate
fervor
5. Penitent
laud
contrite
profligate
abstain
6. Promoting health or well-being
discordant
salubrious
levee
aberrant
7. Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
impervious
malevolent
euphemism
laconic
8. Not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
propriety
exonerate
subtle
disabuse
9. Marked by - feeling - or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
propitiate
platitude
apathy
reverent
10. To take the place of; supersede
esoteric
aesthetic
supplant
obstinate
11. Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
perfidious
impervious
ingenuous
tirade
12. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
arduous
abeyance
eclectic
qualms
13. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
neophyte
ingenuous
disseminate
occlude
14. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
empirical
truculence
tenuous
precursor
15. Soothing - esp. to the skin; making less harsh
penchant
derivative
emollient
paucity
16. Assert confidently or declare; as used in law - state formally as a fact
endemic
caustic
lavish
aver
17. A harsh and disagreeable combination - often of sounds
alleviate
dissonance
canon
opprobrium
18. Excess
burnish
accolade
eulogy
plethora
19. A force that causes rotation
solicitous
torque
archaic
precursor
20. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
specious
martial
oscillation
flag
21. Confuse; puzzle
quiescent
intransigent
confound
pedantic
22. Riddle; difficult problem
precipitate
ebullient
problematic
conundrum
23. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
rarefied
refute
goad
harangue
24. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
guile
efficacy
diatribe
propensity
25. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
untenable
noxious
explicit
inundate
26. Worship of idols; excessive admiration
veracity
idolatry
spurious
transitory
27. Irritable; easily angered
conundrum
dogmatic
irascible
spectrum
28. Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme - unquestioned devotion
gullible
inchoate
capricious
fanatical
29. To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
spendthrift
elicit
dismiss
prevaricate
30. To support; to prop up
bolster
castigate
aberrant
enumerate
31. Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
deride
obstinate
dearth
castigation
32. Model of perfection
divulge
frugality
futile
paragon
33. Improve
impassive
anomaly
fervid
ameliorate
34. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
facetious
specious
zealot
proliferate
35. Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread
facetious
intransigence
lucid
ubiquitous
36. Long - harsh speech or verbal attack
mollify
tirade
abstemious
pragmatic
37. To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
equivocate
rescind
malingerer
mundane
38. Infamy; vilification
intrepid
opprobium
vex
desiccate
39. Praise
ambiguous
obviate
tirade
laud
40. Composed of elements drawn from various sources
insensible
eclectic
capricious
quaff
41. Precise and brief
stolid
pithy
propitiate
prolific
42. Lacking sophistication or experience
sublime
naive
onerous
austere
43. To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
prattle
canonical
malinger
intrepid
44. About to happen; impending
ambiguous
skeptic
imminent
disparate
45. A universally recognized principle
fatuous
appease
irascible
axiom
46. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
vexation
supplant
derision
terse
47. Sophisticated; refined; elegant
prodigious
impervious
urbane
gainsay
48. To examine with great care
impassive
pragmatic
peruse
desiccate
49. Speech in praise of someone
proscribe
obstinate
obtuse
eulogy
50. Practical rather than idealistic
trenchant
plastic
implacable
pragmatic