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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Trying to please by behaving obsequiously - flattering or cringing
supplant
precursor
squander
fawning
2. Treacherous; disloyal
proliferate
perfidious
savor
decorum
3. Not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
distend
inert
intractable
dormant
4. Arrogant presumption or pride
prodigal
reverent
hubris
impede
5. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
ephemeral
erudite
metaphor
chicanery
6. To calm or make less severe
mollify
disinterested
shard
repudiate
7. Thicken; congeal; clot
fervor
coagulate
anachronism
sporadic
8. Fleeting; passing quickly; brief
ameliorate
impetuous
transient
cacophony
9. Ability to be molded
penury
mundane
banal
plasticity
10. Someone easily fooled
dupe
paradox
torpor
decorum
11. Passion - excitement
zeal
engender
anachronism
vacillate
12. Convincing and well reasoned
cogent
anomaly
homogenous
piety
13. Pompous speech or expression
insipid
burgeon
grandiloquence
florid
14. Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
insularity
discretion
specious
prodigal
15. Harmless
equivocate
innocuous
condone
squalid
16. Soothe
mollify
dormant
diffidence
idolatrous
17. Revere
dogmatic
venerate
dilatory
stigma
18. Having or showing often vicious ill-will - spite - or hatred
exonerate
malevolent
stolid
condone
19. Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
philanthropy
malingerer
bolster
inchoate
20. Narrow-mindedness; isolation
cogent
insularity
exculpate
ameliorate
21. Lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
ambivalence
emulate
torpor
implacable
22. Approach; tend to meet; come together
profligate
equivocate
converge
impetuous
23. Wisdom - caution - or restraint
aggregate
predilection
disinterested
prudence
24. Worsen; embitter
succinct
exacerbate
distend
fallacy
25. Ridicule; make fun of
recondite
opaque
deride
complaisant
26. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
rarefy
hackneyed
gullible
dissonance
27. Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
idolatrous
reverent
desultory
presumptuous
28. To penetrate
discordant
permeate
intransigence
catalyst
29. Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
complaisant
pungent
amenable
canon
30. A tendency to be thrifty or cheap
odious
inchoate
desiccate
frugality
31. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted
salubrious
porous
pristine
fervor
32. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
rescind
magnanimity
adulterate
enigmatic
33. Not moving - active - or in motion; at rest
irresolute
perfidy
static
disabuse
34. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
obsequious
pernicious
cogent
immutable
35. To sooth or pacify
placate
ascetic
elegy
immutable
36. Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
dilatory
iconoclast
discordant
fanatical
37. Following or in agreement with accepted - traditional standards
intransigent
diatribe
canonical
decorum
38. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
malinger
solicious
sanction
occlude
39. Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
zealous
penury
decorum
exigent
40. Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in several ways
ambiguous
synthesis
lavish
caustic
41. Distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds)
desultory
meticulous
disseminate
antipathy
42. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
disparage
avarice
perfunctory
oscillation
43. A mark of shame or discredit
fawn
stigma
placate
compliant
44. Convincing
cogent
proclivity
plethora
pithy
45. Meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services
ingenuous
meticulous
officious
precipitate
46. One who opposes established beliefs - customs - and institutions
tenuous
iconoclast
homogenous
buttress
47. One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
empirical
profuse
perfunctory
dilettante
48. Forerunner; harbinger
precursor
abate
mitigate
specious
49. Something long-lasting
perennial
explicit
porous
obdurate
50. Using few words
diffuse
anarchy
disparage
laconic