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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. Practical as opposed to idealistic
indolent
fervid
impunity
pragmatic
2. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
contentious
aggregate
proliferate
obsequious
3. Prevent by taking action in advance
hyperbole
inveigle
forestall
garrulous
4. The essential or central part
laconic
pith
homogenous
recluse
5. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
paragon
propensity
anomaly
precursor
6. A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
enervate
pernicious
foment
satire
7. Imitate; rival
discerning
esoteric
emulate
abyss
8. Complex or complicated
propitiate
nebulous
morose
convoluted
9. To forcibly assign - esp. to a lower place or position
articulate
precursor
relegate
inherent
10. Extremely talkative
waver
abeyance
alacrity
loquacious
11. Brief - comprehensive summary
compendium
hyperbole
alacrity
ingenuous
12. Understood but not stated
imperturbable
implicit
shard
candid
13. Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
queries
elegy
guileless
loquacious
14. Reject; mock; show contempt for
candid
frugality
flout
euphemism
15. Thicken; congeal; clot
assiduous
contrite
coagulate
zealot
16. Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
precursor
volatile
grandiloquence
perspicacious
17. Support; prop up
obviate
ostentatious
levee
buttress
18. To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock
deride
reverent
imperturbable
plastic
19. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
proliferate
neophyte
perfunctory
enigma
20. Unprejudiced
ebullient
disinterested
waver
opaque
21. To obstruct or block
antipathy
penurious
occlude
bolster
22. Warn; reprove
ascetic
admonish
torpid
lethargic
23. Devoutness; reverence for God
exigent
piety
belie
capricious
24. A tendency to be thrifty or cheap
frugality
accolade
supplant
cogent
25. Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
eccentric
desultory
quaff
diffuse
26. One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
dilettante
conciliatory
elegy
desultory
27. Inactive; lacking power to move
austere
lament
probity
inert
28. Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
exonerate
arduous
tortuous
disparate
29. Excess; overindulgence
oscillate
irascible
surfeit
viscous
30. An overabundance; a surplus
convention
accolade
naive
plethora
31. Sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness
maverick
soporific
reverent
ephemeral
32. Trickery or subterfuge
dirge
laud
bombastic
chicanery
33. Colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
mollify
spectrum
fawn
bombastic
34. Blacken
caustic
coda
denigrate
chicanery
35. Passion - excitement
subside
ephemeral
laud
zeal
36. Expression of praise - often on the occasion of someone's death
eulogy
divulge
perfunctory
prevaricate
37. Trite remark; commonplace statement
platitude
archaic
tenacity
shard
38. To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
solvent
malinger
effrontery
coagulate
39. To give unsparingly (V); Extremely generous or extravagant (ADJ)
lucid
lavish
prodigal
facetious
40. Sleeping; lethargic; latent
dormant
ephemeral
imperturbable
antipathy
41. Wordy
esoteric
verbose
dissonance
quotidian
42. Thick; sticky
viscous
homogenous
facetious
banal
43. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
probity
ephemeral
inchoate
trenchant
44. Full of pores; like a sieve
emulate
porous
bucolic
propitiate
45. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
preamble
ostentatious
inchoate
arduous
46. Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
admonish
inadvertently
indifferent
proscribe
47. Split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
fulminate
dichotomy
squalid
hyperbole
48. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
tirade
transient
capricious
enervate
49. Easily made angry
irascible
satiate
caustic
dirge
50. Not moving - active - or in motion; at rest
intransigent
static
avarice
nascent