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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. Peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
vex
tangential
tirade
solicitous
2. To invalidate; to repeal; to retract
rescind
noxious
irascible
disparage
3. To provide support or reinforcement
adulation
malleable
specious
bolster
4. Impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness
effrontery
relegate
discredit
bombast
5. Yielding; conforming to requirements
contiguous
impetuous
gainsay
compliant
6. Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
fawn
eclectic
tenuous
disabuse
7. Rude; insensitive
pirate
austere
recondite
boorish
8. To obstruct or block
bombastic
occlude
eulogy
tacit
9. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
adulterate
qualms
harangue
capricious
10. Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
sordid
loquacious
obtuse
precursor
11. To drink deeply
impassive
dearth
quaff
spectrum
12. A force that causes rotation
torque
complaisant
implode
imminent
13. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
catalyst
ambivalence
discrete
tacit
14. Clear; easily understood
opprobium
specious
lucid
eclectic
15. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
emulate
arduous
document
enervate
16. Inform
gouge
pernicious
apprise
conundrum
17. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
esoteric
arduous
unfeigned
reverent
18. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
assuage
virulent
distill
austere
19. Quick - keen - or accurate knowledge or insight
truculent
supposition
acumen
boorish
20. A substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing
convoluted
catalyst
antagonize
viable
21. Base on experience
empirical
penurious
apathy
mundane
22. Trite remark; commonplace statement
stigma
platitude
proliferate
sage
23. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
precursor
meticulous
catalyst
exacerbate
24. Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
soporific
austere
anomaly
commensurate
25. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
truculence
loquacious
malleable
axiomatic
26. Characterized by bitter - long-lasting resentment
desultory
intractable
rancorous
sedulous
27. Bright - brilliant - glowing
pernicious
irresolute
luminous
stolid
28. Acting with excessive haste or impulse
austere
precipitate
propensity
apathy
29. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
ingenuous
precipitate
ostentation
plummet
30. Deserving blame
culpable
tortuous
superfluous
cogent
31. One who opposes established beliefs - customs - and institutions
impervious
iconoclast
deterrent
nebulous
32. The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart - esp. in forgiving
convoluted
diatribe
attenuate
magnanimity
33. Damaging; harmful; injurious
inimical
putrefy
obstinate
pervasive
34. Distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds)
recondite
forestall
disseminate
pathological
35. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
digression
prodigal
banal
deference
36. Make unnecessary; get rid of
obviate
craven
subtle
eulogy
37. Lacking sophistication or experience
naive
enervate
hyperbole
contrite
38. Recent convert; beginner
neophyte
extemporaneous
pragmatic
opprobium
39. Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant
converge
profuse
pragmatic
grandiloquent
40. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
exigent
mitigate
paragon
pine
41. Truthfulness; honesty
opprobrium
veracity
spectrum
prodigal
42. Passion - excitement
euphemism
zeal
disparate
canon
43. To disprove; to successfully argue against
lucid
solicious
exculpate
refute
44. To waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; to waver
anomaly
foment
vacillate
abscond
45. Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
propensity
denigrate
discretion
lucid
46. Calm; not easily disturbed
dissonance
phlegmatic
savor
appropriate
47. An abusive - condemnatory speech
pervasive
coagulate
diatribe
complaisance
48. Waver; fluctuate
emulate
vacillate
dogmatic
latent
49. Calm; placid
dissonance
apprise
torpor
imperturbable
50. Someone who shows off learning
facetious
querulous
pedant
verbose