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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. Pertaining to disease
bombastic
goad
pathological
precursor
2. Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
stoic
reticent
onerous
obtuse
3. Urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention
insensible
exigency
specious
cogent
4. Supporting bar
synthesis
recalcitrant
strut
beneficent
5. Peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
stolid
bombast
tangential
appropriate
6. Very cautious
wary
predilection
volatile
ostentation
7. Trickery; deception
soporific
chicanery
apprise
cacophony
8. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
intractable
desultory
frugality
pragmatic
9. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
deterrent
plethora
torpor
connoisseur
10. Pompous in speech and manner
bombastic
aggregate
alacrity
erratic
11. Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday
boorish
mundane
diatribe
discordant
12. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
fortuitous
approbation
eccentric
porous
13. Correct a false impression; undeceive
disabuse
irresolute
prevaricate
naive
14. Agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction - development - or change
meticulous
opprobium
implacable
catalyst
15. Refusing to compromise
martial
insipid
caustic
intransigent
16. To examine with great care
plethora
peruse
immutable
disparate
17. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
tout
welter
morose
misanthrope
18. Dull; unimaginative
prosaic
heretical
reverent
tenuous
19. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
ostentatious
resolution
emulate
incongruity
20. Deception by means of craft or guile
caustic
ameliorate
hyperbole
chicanery
21. Wasteful; reckless with money
pedant
immutable
indolent
prodigal
22. Spread throughout
demur
proclivity
dissolution
pervasive
23. Severe poverty; stinginess
mercurial
penury
vacillate
incipient
24. Inclined to prevent or forbid
prohibitive
irascible
reticent
subside
25. Poem or song expressing lamentation
austere
waver
decorum
elegy
26. Beginning to come into being or to become apparent
plethora
incipient
aesthetic
rescind
27. Concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that summarizes
intractable
coda
loquacious
stolid
28. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
eclectic
peruse
oscillation
pine
29. Done without using words
equivocate
tacit
decorum
bombast
30. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
connoisseur
inert
specious
diatribe
31. Intensely emotional; feverish
veracity
indolent
inherent
fervid
32. Worsen; embitter
chicanery
garrulous
precursor
exacerbate
33. Devoutness; reverence for God
piety
caustic
chicanery
quaff
34. Support; reinforce
prattle
dogmatic
immutable
bolster
35. To make thinner or sparser
apprise
pervasive
recondite
rarefy
36. To make more bearable
censure
propensity
pervasive
alleviate
37. Long - passionate - and vehement speech
cogent
harangue
garrulous
supplant
38. Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
catalyst
luminous
vilify
irascible
39. To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
onerous
neophyte
proliferate
relegate
40. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
stigma
sanction
superfluous
aver
41. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
capricious
paradox
oscillation
partisan
42. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
luminous
cacophony
irresolute
misanthrope
43. Concerned and attentive; eager
loquacious
solicitous
obsequious
disjointed
44. Disown; disavow
repudiate
incongruity
recant
querulous
45. To disguise or conceal; to mislead
contrite
acerbic
chicanery
dissemble
46. Lack of variation
fallacy
subpoena
maverick
monotony
47. Irritable; easily angered
assuage
erudite
esoteric
irascible
48. Violating accepted dogma or convention
platitude
heretical
laud
stolid
49. Waver; fluctuate
fawn
opprobrium
vacillate
impunity
50. To satisfy fully or overindulge
contentious
precipitate
incipient
satiate