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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. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
rarefy
exculpate
obviate
querulous
2. Controversial; argumentative
denigrate
disparate
succinct
polemical
3. Able to be molded - altered - or bent
contrite
levity
plastic
iconoclast
4. Approval
extemporaneous
obviate
approbation
peruse
5. To disclose something secret
salubrious
impervious
elegy
divulge
6. Deceit or trickery
guile
paragon
viscous
frugality
7. To express sorrow; to grieve
sedulous
secrete
luminous
lament
8. Natural inclination
propensity
insipid
disabuse
reverent
9. A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
quotidian
satire
quiescent
obstinate
10. Understood; not put into words
antipathy
opprobrium
tacit
obviate
11. Long - passionate - and vehement speech
harangue
arduous
garrulous
chicanery
12. Expression of praise - often on the occasion of someone's death
aesthetic
discrete
sporadic
eulogy
13. Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
prevaricate
taciturn
redoubtable
magnanimity
14. Biting in wit
caustic
apathy
desiccate
implode
15. To clear of blame
paradox
anomaly
exonerate
paucity
16. Firmly established by nature or habit
inherent
pungent
torque
paragon
17. Unprejudiced
iconoclast
disinterested
disparate
variegated
18. Stubborn - unyielding
obstinate
gregarious
inundate
polemical
19. Deviating from the norm
tacit
contention
proliferate
aberrant
20. Praise
dilettante
subpoena
irascible
laud
21. Power to produce desired effect
efficacy
zeal
grandiloquence
ardor
22. Harmless; causing no damage
satiate
innocuous
loquacious
vituperate
23. Reconciling; soothing
exigency
reticent
dogmatic
conciliatory
24. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
precursor
disparage
pedantic
esoteric
25. Lacking sophistication or experience
archaic
zealot
paradox
naive
26. Having or showing often vicious ill-will - spite - or hatred
antagonize
vacillate
malevolent
gregarious
27. Wordy
castigate
ubiquitous
verbose
fallacy
28. Soak thoroughly
saturate
onerous
adulterate
subpoena
29. Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
zealous
garrulous
stupefy
sparse
30. Ability to be molded
forestall
maverick
plummet
plasticity
31. Marked with parallel bands; grooved
caustic
striated
aesthetic
paragon
32. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
diverge
loquacious
odious
spurious
33. Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
noxious
gregarious
implacable
mendacious
34. Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
impair
tout
supersede
assuage
35. Generosity
pervade
exigent
embellish
magnanimity
36. Basically different; unrelated
burgeon
disparate
opaque
abeyance
37. A mark of shame or discredit
immutable
mercurial
ephemeral
stigma
38. Justified; authorized
frugality
perfunctory
inured
warranted
39. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
squalid
dogmatic
pervasive
abstemious
40. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound; dissonance
cacophony
compendium
discrete
fervent
41. Arrogant presumption or pride
onerous
document
hubris
intractable
42. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
grandiloquent
nascent
hyperbole
vituperative
43. Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
pungent
lethargic
odious
relegate
44. Learned; scholarly
malingerer
propensity
erudite
rancorous
45. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
contiguous
esoteric
ascetic
pernicious
46. To produce - cause - or bring about
attenuate
engender
truculent
insinuate
47. Discord; opposite of harmony
impair
bolster
dissonance
prosaic
48. Of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
mundane
probity
recondite
reverent
49. To leave secretly
abscond
glib
fallacious
placate
50. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
discretion
desiccate
magnanimity
endemic