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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. Wasteful; reckless with money
lavish
acumen
prodigal
impunity
2. Joking (often inappropriately); humorous
fatuous
pedantic
polemical
facetious
3. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
foment
axiomatic
stigma
equivocate
4. To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
default
profuse
pungent
proliferate
5. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
crescendo
meticulous
explicit
exigent
6. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
phlegmatic
aesthetic
precipitate
garrulous
7. A sorrowful poem or speech
caustic
elegy
pervasive
tortuous
8. Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
implacable
reticent
odious
deference
9. Make express conditions - specify
florid
stipulate
indeterminate
irascible
10. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
squalid
pristine
profligate
dissonance
11. Easily understood; clear; intelligible
lucid
meticulous
terse
eloquent
12. Pompous; grandiloquent
bombastic
static
insipid
obviate
13. Abnormal; irregular
obdurate
anomalous
crescendo
facetious
14. Trickery or subterfuge
repudiate
derision
homogenous
chicanery
15. A speech honoring the dead
advocate
eulogy
incorporate
problematic
16. To grow rapidly or flourish
empirical
burgeon
probity
pervasive
17. Of a similar kind
approbation
efficacy
homogenous
occlude
18. Inform
apprise
chicanery
plummet
plasticity
19. Provide written evidence
phlegmatic
document
fallacious
pervade
20. Draw out by discussion
elicit
striated
aesthetic
mundane
21. Pompous walk
gainsay
engender
strut
reticent
22. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
pungent
pine
enigma
chauvinist
23. Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
implacable
enervate
discretion
onerous
24. Limited; restricted
alacrity
castigation
qualified
lucid
25. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
tacit
ascetic
ostentatious
lucid
26. One who hates all other humans
predilection
misanthrope
capricious
tortuous
27. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
pernicious
hegemony
rarefy
commensurate
28. Controversial; argumentative
polemical
prevaricate
diatribe
cacophonous
29. To remove blame
eulogy
disparate
exonerate
discordant
30. Soothe
opaque
vituperative
hyperbole
mollify
31. Disown; disavow
pungent
repudiate
zealot
veracity
32. Diligent; persistent; hard-working
parody
sedulous
mercurial
chary
33. Respectful; worshipful
enervate
reverent
abscond
log
34. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
distend
onerous
enhance
forestall
35. Capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable
contrite
malleable
anachronism
adulation
36. Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
loquacious
vacillate
conciliatory
reticent
37. To slight or belittle
urbane
disparage
verbose
disabuse
38. Harsh - jarring noise
imperturbable
antipathy
bombast
cacaphony
39. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
prohibitive
saturate
coagulate
cynicism
40. Accustomed; hardened
inured
amalgamate
disingenuous
squander
41. Cancel out; nullify; deny
paragon
disparage
pervasive
negate
42. To soften; to lessen
rarefy
engender
canon
mitigate
43. A firmly held opinion - often a religious belief
plethora
mendacity
dissolution
dogma
44. Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
obdurate
mollify
qualms
squalid
45. Incapable of being pacified
stipulate
implacable
belie
satiate
46. Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression
obstinate
obfuscate
urbane
explicit
47. To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
putrefy
morose
filibuster
mitigate
48. Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
esoteric
relegate
contentious
disparate
49. To deliberately obscure; to make confusing
laconic
obfuscate
invective
amalgamate
50. To praise highly
burgeon
laud
astringent
profligate