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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. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
veracity
specious
decorum
fatuous
2. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional)
loquacious
specious
vilify
tacit
3. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
obsequious
tirade
exculpate
dogmatic
4. Justified; authorized
whimsical
warranted
salubrious
boorish
5. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
stint
obviate
hyperbole
profligate
6. To question or oppose
demur
peruse
exonerate
eclectic
7. Disown; disavow
repudiate
elegy
deride
accolade
8. Excessively decorated or embellished
chary
quixotic
florid
lucid
9. To fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
renege
axiomatic
innocuous
laconic
10. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
proscribe
peruse
esoteric
ameliorate
11. Quick - keen - or accurate knowledge or insight
saturate
recondite
gullible
acumen
12. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
ephemeral
castigation
whimsical
insipid
13. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
ingenuous
satiate
disparate
exonerate
14. Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
phlegmatic
recalcitrant
mitigate
digression
15. Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
problematic
opaque
synthesis
articulate
16. Having a sour or bitter taste or character
loquacious
obsequious
oscillation
acerbic
17. Respect - courtesy
lament
deference
tacit
proliferate
18. Establish by evidence; verify; support
quixotic
substantiate
enhance
effrontery
19. Pacify; conciliate
supplant
vilify
enervate
placate
20. Cursory; done without care or interest
eloquent
perfunctory
capricious
arduous
21. Immunity from punishment or penalty
impunity
avarice
transgression
approbation
22. Deception by means of craft or guile
chicanery
arbitrate
succinct
obdurate
23. Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
paragon
propensity
pedantic
eclectic
24. To disclose something secret
filibuster
exigent
divulge
dilettante
25. Shining; issuing light
whimsical
convention
luminous
emulate
26. A puzzle; a mystery
default
enigma
dissonance
hyperbole
27. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
apathy
proliferate
craven
solicitous
28. Discord; opposite of harmony
dissonance
desiccate
log
austere
29. Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
recondite
mollify
striated
stolid
30. Intricate and complicated
magnanimity
canonical
convoluted
extrapolation
31. Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
renege
tirade
bucolic
enhance
32. To examine with great care
skeptic
vex
peruse
subpoena
33. An established set of principles or code of laws - often religious in nature
canon
forestall
reticent
quaff
34. Intensely emotional; feverish
intransigent
itinerary
fervid
idolatry
35. Wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas)
diffuse
impede
aesthetic
obsequious
36. Practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
viable
recluse
substantiate
eclectic
37. To give praise; to glorify
laud
gullible
obstinate
axiomatic
38. A speech honoring the dead
enigma
chicanery
inadvertently
eulogy
39. Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
disparate
synthesis
ardor
ameliorate
40. Given to intense or excessive devotion to something
opaque
onerous
stigma
idolatrous
41. Dictatorial in one's opinions
lament
ameliorate
dogmatic
specious
42. Contradict; give a false impression
vacillate
belie
recant
pernicious
43. Winding; full of curves
tortuous
rarefy
recalcitrant
emollient
44. To provide support or reinforcement
perfunctory
condone
bolster
strut
45. Narrow-mindedness; isolation
aggrandize
divulge
insularity
specious
46. Hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
dirge
transgression
embellish
banal
47. An exaggerated statement - often used as a figure of speech
hyperbole
prohibitive
dissonance
repudiate
48. Unpredictable; fickle
conciliatory
burgeon
capricious
static
49. Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
esoteric
caustic
supersede
misanthrope
50. A new word - expression - or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
alleviate
neologism
lament
zealot