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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. A piece of broken pottery or glass
grandiloquence
compendium
hyperbole
shard
2. Overly submissive and eager to please
magnanimity
sanction
capricious
obsequious
3. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
pungent
relegate
prodigal
cacophonous
4. Soothing - esp. to the skin; making less harsh
emollient
malingerer
furtive
frugality
5. Practical rather than idealistic
inadvertently
dichotomy
exigent
pragmatic
6. Public disgrace
opprobrium
impetuous
enigma
coagulate
7. Marked by extreme calm - impassivity and steadiness
imperturbable
erudite
capricious
pervade
8. Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
compliant
disinterested
chauvinist
quaff
9. Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
tenuous
pine
opaque
ameliorate
10. Agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction - development - or change
catalyst
coagulate
precarious
implacable
11. The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart - esp. in forgiving
mollify
facetious
magnanimity
reticent
12. Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density - force - degree)
precipitate
attenuate
torpid
verbose
13. Severe criticism or punishment
loquacious
squander
castigation
putrefy
14. Lack of harmony; absurdity
incongruity
iconoclast
eccentric
inveigle
15. Calm; not easily disturbed
antipathy
phlegmatic
converge
capricious
16. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
stolid
inveigle
capricious
refute
17. Express disapproval or disappointment
insipid
diatribe
reproach
desiccate
18. Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
tortuous
sublime
equivocate
astringent
19. Acting in an indifferent or slow - sluggish manner
anachronism
innocuous
lethargic
endemic
20. An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
flag
fallacy
homogenous
savor
21. To make more bearable
profuse
alleviate
truculent
supposition
22. A puzzle; a mystery
ostentatious
querulous
equivocate
enigma
23. To speak in favor of
supersede
prudence
disparate
advocate
24. The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
convoluted
esoteric
tenacity
anachronism
25. To grow rapidly or flourish
contrite
burgeon
alacrity
harangue
26. Aggressiveness; ferocity
truculence
lassitude
archaic
idolatry
27. To prevent; to make unnecessary
queries
penury
condone
obviate
28. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
obdurate
irascible
tortuous
irascible
29. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
antipathy
precipitate
sanction
vituperate
30. To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
imperturbable
abscond
attenuate
heretical
31. To obstruct or block
sanction
occlude
halcyon
recondite
32. Treacherous; disloyal
inchoate
corroborate
discrepancy
perfidious
33. Having a sour or bitter taste or character
acerbic
spurious
emollient
proliferate
34. Immunity from punishment or penalty
lavish
impunity
opaque
mundane
35. To count - list - or itemize
censure
occlude
enumerate
impunity
36. Natural inclination
propensity
obviate
dichotomy
prodigal
37. Trying to please by behaving obsequiously - flattering or cringing
stolid
fawning
advocate
hedonism
38. Abusive; scolding
luminous
salubrious
vituperative
immutable
39. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
neophyte
insinuate
discrete
facilitate
40. Excessive praise; intense adoration
castigation
esoteric
irresolute
adulation
41. Rebel; nonconformist
perfunctory
artless
immutable
maverick
42. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
perennial
untenable
mollify
stigma
43. A harsh denunciation
diatribe
dogmatic
amalgamate
enervate
44. Long - passionate - and vehement speech
capricious
arduous
imperturbable
harangue
45. An established set of principles or code of laws - often religious in nature
nebulous
disinterested
canon
fanatical
46. Thicken; congeal; clot
inveigle
plummet
specious
coagulate
47. A new word - expression - or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
discordant
stoic
neologism
disparage
48. To permeate throughout
ebullient
pervade
bombastic
pragmatic
49. Using few words
penury
laconic
maverick
perfunctory
50. Controversial; argumentative
polemical
plasticity
refractory
predilection