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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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sat
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english
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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. Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
convoluted
tacit
renege
impervious
2. Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
abscond
neologism
burgeon
secrete
3. Harsh - jarring noise
levity
quixotic
cacaphony
peruse
4. Easily understood; clear; intelligible
aggrandize
chauvinist
homogenous
lucid
5. To conciliate; to appease
propitiate
lassitude
ostentatious
inert
6. Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in several ways
prescience
aver
ambiguous
assiduous
7. Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
frugality
pragmatic
onerous
stoic
8. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
forestall
prodigal
oscillate
placate
9. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
eulogy
compendium
unfeigned
delineate
10. Ill-humored; sullen; melancholy
beneficent
crescendo
disabuse
morose
11. Discordant; inharmonious
exonerate
cacophonous
secrete
ephemeral
12. To leave secretly
intractable
reticent
abscond
soporific
13. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
spendthrift
dupe
ostentatious
quixotic
14. Given to intense or excessive devotion to something
terse
idolatrous
connoisseur
convoluted
15. Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
dissemble
condone
frugality
prevaricate
16. Intricate and complicated
convoluted
pristine
bucolic
salubrious
17. Stubborn - unyielding
obstinate
latent
vacillate
stoic
18. Expand; swell out
emulate
anachronism
distend
pragmatic
19. Exonerate; to clear of blame
facilitate
exculpate
equivocate
perfidious
20. Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
effrontery
recluse
plummet
engender
21. To deliberately obscure; to make confusing
reticent
obfuscate
caustic
lament
22. To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
prevaricate
polemical
itinerary
appropriate
23. Respect - courtesy
castigation
audacious
deference
misanthrope
24. Soothe
precarious
mollify
abate
insipid
25. Violation of a law; sin
mitigate
obfuscate
transgression
aver
26. Wordy
indeterminate
opprobrium
obstinate
verbose
27. Implied; not explicitly stated
bombastic
equivocate
contentious
tacit
28. Penitent
pervasive
contrite
homogenous
assuage
29. Following or in agreement with accepted - traditional standards
ascetic
repudiate
canonical
harangue
30. Inactive; lacking power to move
anarchy
inert
bombastic
relegate
31. Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
anachronism
adulterate
venerate
arduous
32. Capricious; fanciful
morose
reticent
partisan
whimsical
33. Excessive showiness
occlude
ostentation
torpor
pungent
34. To increase in number quickly
fallacy
hubris
proliferate
mitigate
35. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
squalid
stupefy
malevolent
profound
36. A new word - expression - or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
platitude
boorish
neologism
precursor
37. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
sporadic
luminous
parody
solvent
38. Make express conditions - specify
ostentation
forestall
stipulate
derivative
39. A medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals - esp. base metals into gold
alchemy
malevolent
penury
precipitate
40. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
volatile
capricious
pragmatic
obstinate
41. Capable of being shaped
inchoate
prudence
malleable
log
42. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
dissonance
ameliorate
fallacy
tirade
43. Pompous; grandiloquent
bombastic
succinct
convoluted
tortuous
44. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
dupe
eulogy
truculent
dilettante
45. Deep; not superficial; complete
emulate
profound
eclectic
desultory
46. Adorn; ornament; enhance - as a story
impervious
disparage
inured
embellish
47. Attacking cherished traditions
penurious
iconoclast
apprise
divulge
48. Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
peruse
aver
resolve
malleable
49. Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
precipitate
sanction
amenable
quotidian
50. Make shiny by rubbing; polish
complaisant
cacaphony
astringent
burnish