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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. Harmless
reproach
antipathy
innocuous
waver
2. Fearless and daring
obdurate
audacious
vigilant
recondite
3. Urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention
distill
gregarious
exigency
implacable
4. Occurring irregularly
impassive
transgression
striated
sporadic
5. Determination; firmness of purpose
resolve
parody
refute
rarefied
6. Having a sour or bitter taste or character
euphemism
engender
occlude
acerbic
7. Devoutness; reverence for God
laud
piety
fallacy
cacaphony
8. Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
pungent
implicit
dearth
emulate
9. Dry up
desiccate
succinct
disingenuous
ascetic
10. To provide supporting evidence
officious
malevolent
corroborate
impermeable
11. To make better; to improve
satiate
reprobate
torque
ameliorate
12. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
polemical
alacrity
qualms
advocate
13. Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
vacillate
soporific
pungent
analogous
14. To judge a dispute between two opposing parties
hyperbole
arbitrate
subpoena
gregarious
15. Deny
harangue
gainsay
chicanery
mercurial
16. Harmful; injurious
erudite
synthesis
exculpate
noxious
17. Determination
elegy
inchoate
exculpate
resolution
18. Long - harsh speech or verbal attack
tirade
empirical
exculpate
specious
19. Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
austere
avarice
prescience
penury
20. Admirable
estimable
contrite
relegate
ameliorate
21. Practical as opposed to idealistic
pragmatic
dichotomy
discrepancy
saturate
22. Lacking coherence
dogmatic
indolent
disjointed
paragon
23. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
propensity
desultory
rarefy
loquacious
24. Basically different; unrelated
grandiloquent
disparate
castigate
probity
25. Cursory; done without care or interest
infelicitous
predilection
indigence
perfunctory
26. Ill-humored; sullen; melancholy
anomaly
morose
inadvertently
ostentatious
27. Impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
esoteric
irascible
impervious
pervasive
28. A person or thing that causes change
spendthrift
guileless
inconsequential
catalyst
29. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
facilitate
ephemeral
engender
tortuous
30. Pompous; grandiloquent
condone
bombastic
iconoclast
adulation
31. Severe poverty; stinginess
accolade
penury
caustic
mitigate
32. Filled with truth and accuracy
veracity
impervious
permeate
subpoena
33. Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
soporific
audacious
inert
appease
34. To express sorrow; to grieve
aver
exacerbate
tirade
lament
35. Of the same kind
eclectic
quiescent
tenuous
homogenous
36. The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
ameliorate
aver
tenacity
obsequious
37. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
boorish
oscillation
ameliorate
obstinate
38. Corresponding in extent - degree - amount - etc.; proportionate
forestall
rarefy
commensurate
hyperbole
39. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
sanction
dilate
antipathy
transitory
40. Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
fallacy
dupe
connoisseur
contrite
41. Revealing no emotion
impassive
germane
deride
arbitrate
42. Public disgrace
lethargic
rarefy
opprobrium
evanescent
43. A harsh denunciation
diatribe
contrite
alacrity
torpor
44. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
forestall
discrete
pious
rescind
45. Spread throughout
inherent
plasticity
pervasive
abscond
46. Hinder - block
discern
impede
substantiate
volatile
47. To choose not to do something
platitude
abstain
reverent
harangue
48. To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
fervid
garrulous
putrefy
phlegmatic
49. Understood; not put into words
diatribe
deference
tacit
aggrandize
50. Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in several ways
ambiguous
soporific
amenable
wary