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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. Easily deceived
laud
gullible
effrontery
ascetic
2. Complex or complicated
deference
convoluted
derision
precursor
3. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
obsequious
erudite
opaque
endemic
4. Stubborn - unyielding
transgression
loquacious
obstinate
pragmatic
5. To reduce in amount - degree - or severity
elegy
stymie
compliant
abate
6. Expression of praise - often on the occasion of someone's death
luminous
inchoate
tacit
eulogy
7. Hint; imply; creep in
obdurate
diffident
insinuate
taciturn
8. Worsen; embitter
exacerbate
indolent
perfunctory
prodigious
9. Urge on
goad
prevaricate
mollify
canon
10. Made less dense (of a gas)
neologism
cynicism
rarefied
anachronism
11. To examine with great care
peruse
fatuous
mercurial
probity
12. Effective writing or speaking
rhetoric
heretical
diffuse
penury
13. Trying to please by behaving obsequiously - flattering or cringing
sordid
foment
fawning
discordant
14. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
impair
enervate
untenable
futile
15. To give praise; to glorify
guile
divest
laud
empirical
16. Basically different; unrelated
disabuse
voracious
disparate
alleviate
17. To flatter or praise excessively
platitude
demur
fawn
dissolution
18. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
complaisant
imperturbable
onerous
audacious
19. Peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
contentious
tacit
laconic
tangential
20. Convincing
estimable
subpoena
cogent
pervade
21. Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
acerbic
obdurate
apathy
satiate
22. Understood but not stated
implicit
penury
quibble
chicanery
23. Shyness
solicious
diffidence
specious
torpid
24. Meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services
coagulate
aesthetic
equivocate
officious
25. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
placate
deference
pedantic
banal
26. At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
insensible
diffident
perennial
quiescent
27. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
quiescent
propriety
tirade
apprise
28. Abstruse; profound; secret
proliferate
magnanimity
recondite
secrete
29. Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
perfidy
luminous
anachronism
assiduous
30. Intended for or understood by a small - specific group
esoteric
dilettante
vacillate
abstemious
31. Inclined to prevent or forbid
pragmatic
ascetic
prohibitive
obviate
32. Passion - excitement
spurious
prosaic
reverent
zeal
33. Sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
precarious
venerate
gregarious
pungent
34. Severe poverty; stinginess
penury
ameliorate
rhetoric
articulate
35. Improve
tacit
disingenuous
ameliorate
laconic
36. Deviation form what is normal
appropriate
anomaly
mendacious
castigate
37. Lack of variation
anarchy
ephemeral
monotony
fatuous
38. Minor objection or complaint
quibble
obdurate
apathy
parody
39. Speech in praise of someone
eulogy
adulterate
enigma
elegy
40. To dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care
exigent
preen
efficacy
incipient
41. Unchangeable
dismiss
opprobrium
equivocate
immutable
42. Burst inward
canon
implode
equivocate
fledgling
43. Having or showing often vicious ill-will - spite - or hatred
desultory
loquacious
derivative
malevolent
44. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
glib
ameliorate
trenchant
axiomatic
45. Lack of harmony; absurdity
incongruity
harangue
plethora
sordid
46. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
bolster
catalyst
harangue
prohibitive
47. Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
virulent
aggrandize
venerate
contiguous
48. Cause; produce
opprobrium
gainsay
perfidious
engender
49. To lessen in intensity or degree
abate
plummet
rescind
abstain
50. Courteous regard for another's wish
eloquent
deference
felicitous
embellish