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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. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
volatile
waver
enhance
prodigious
2. Severe poverty; stinginess
penury
appropriate
tirade
derivative
3. Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
pragmatic
banal
intransigent
inchoate
4. Treacherous; disloyal
eclectic
perfidious
disabuse
anarchy
5. Poverty; destitution
penury
bolster
eloquent
credulous
6. Not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
substantiate
bombast
superfluous
subtle
7. Steadfast and courageous
intrepid
perfidious
lethargic
bombast
8. To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate
opaque
vituperate
veracious
dilettante
9. To question or oppose
banal
welter
demur
guileless
10. Stubborn; unmanageable
assuage
lucid
odious
refractory
11. A firmly held opinion - often a religious belief
iconoclast
soporific
dogma
ubiquitous
12. Admirable
converge
estimable
eclectic
anomaly
13. To perceive; to recognize
quaff
craven
naive
discern
14. Violation of a law; sin
transgression
tirade
spurious
refute
15. Diligent
assuage
assiduous
exculpate
esoteric
16. Calm and peaceful
unfeigned
dogmatic
euphemism
halcyon
17. Alertly watchful
stigma
banal
garrulous
vigilant
18. Riddle; difficult problem
conundrum
lavish
voracious
empirical
19. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
axiomatic
audacious
fervid
profound
20. Glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
inchoate
obdurate
fervor
mitigate
21. Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
endemic
complaisant
eloquent
esoteric
22. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
archaic
desultory
meticulous
qualms
23. Promoting health or well-being
enhance
salubrious
proclivity
pervasive
24. To disprove; to successfully argue against
viscous
refute
cacophonous
elegy
25. Trickery; deception
permeate
archaic
chicanery
quiescent
26. Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
stymie
dilettante
phlegmatic
specious
27. To give unsparingly (V); Extremely generous or extravagant (ADJ)
amalgamate
eloquent
lavish
solicious
28. To annoy
vex
harangue
volatile
pungent
29. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
zeal
irresolute
truculent
lucid
30. One who opposes established beliefs - customs - and institutions
precursor
antipathy
iconoclast
pith
31. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
implode
pithy
condone
ambivalence
32. Eager and enthusiastic willingness
propensity
alacrity
dilettante
itinerary
33. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
filibuster
assuage
soporific
nascent
34. Sleeping; lethargic; latent
ameliorate
dormant
eloquent
plasticity
35. To lessen in intensity or degree
perfidious
abate
perennial
penury
36. Lacking sophistication or experience
naive
loquacious
rarefy
pungent
37. Tending to talk a lot
garrulous
resolve
disabuse
prudence
38. Hermit; loner
recluse
dogmatic
extemporaneous
convoluted
39. Infamy; vilification
didactic
opprobium
chicanery
subside
40. Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
diffuse
soporific
irascible
pervasive
41. Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
volatile
torpid
solicitous
stoic
42. Dry up
adulation
desiccate
solicious
burgeon
43. A person or thing that causes change
elegy
mitigate
capricious
catalyst
44. To grow rapidly or flourish
monotony
abscond
idolatry
burgeon
45. The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart - esp. in forgiving
rhetoric
wary
magnanimity
adulterate
46. To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
facilitate
attenuate
relegate
incipient
47. Harmful; injurious
repudiate
pedagogy
noxious
subside
48. To flatter or praise excessively
emulate
diffuse
paean
fawn
49. Deceit or trickery
tangential
goad
guile
impassive
50. Rebel; nonconformist
obviate
flag
insipid
maverick