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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. Willing to betray one's trust
insinuate
pernicious
mundane
perfidious
2. An informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
adulation
bolster
ingenuous
connoisseur
3. Not fully formed; disorganized
indifferent
inchoate
impassive
veracity
4. Changing one's mind quickly and often
subpoena
aggrandize
capricious
deride
5. Not harmonious; conflicting
pathological
salubrious
discordant
euphemism
6. To lessen in intensity or degree
abate
pernicious
pervasive
ephemeral
7. To deliberately obscure; to make confusing
ebullience
obfuscate
voracious
misanthrope
8. Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
salubrious
eclectic
chicanery
philanthropy
9. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
obsequious
axiom
taciturn
divulge
10. Failure to act
diffuse
default
oscillate
antipathy
11. To sooth or pacify
prattle
placate
penury
obsequious
12. An established set of principles or code of laws - often religious in nature
canon
preamble
mollify
bolster
13. Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
nebulous
irascible
mundane
venerate
14. Understood but not stated
implicit
compendium
indigence
levity
15. To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
implacable
arbitrate
diffidence
prattle
16. To perceive; to recognize
monotony
implode
discern
relegate
17. Practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
onerous
burgeon
zealot
viable
18. Rude; insensitive
enervate
boorish
equivocate
convoluted
19. Subside or moderate
germane
abate
disinterested
magnanimity
20. Glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
sanction
fervor
static
prudence
21. One that precedes and indicates or announces another
precursor
reproach
convention
aberrant
22. Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
voracious
obtuse
negate
disseminate
23. Lying; habitually dishonest
recalcitrant
innocuous
mendacious
connoisseur
24. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
laud
gullible
admonish
enervate
25. Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
catalyst
untenable
whimsical
dogma
26. To question or oppose
misanthrope
erratic
demur
exculpate
27. To reduce in strength
catalyst
lucid
disseminate
enervate
28. Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density - force - degree)
attenuate
endemic
shard
alleviate
29. Irritable; easily angered
elegy
urbane
pungent
irascible
30. To make better; to improve
abstain
spurious
ameliorate
quotidian
31. To plunge or drop straight down
approbation
plummet
polemical
satiate
32. Rash; premature; hasty; sudden
dissemble
erratic
precipitate
flag
33. Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
subtle
penurious
fulminate
fanatical
34. Overly submissive and eager to please
mitigate
efficacy
obsequious
aberrant
35. Shining; issuing light
enumerate
deterrent
felicitous
luminous
36. Wandering and unpredictable
recluse
erratic
propriety
specious
37. Fearless and daring
repudiate
appease
specious
audacious
38. Determination
cogent
resolution
ambivalence
hedonism
39. Healthful
exigent
queries
odious
salubrious
40. A universally recognized principle
belie
imperturbable
misanthrope
axiom
41. A funeral hymn or mournful speech
abscond
acerbic
superfluous
dirge
42. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
immutable
credulous
pungent
ostentatious
43. Devotion to pleasurable pursuits - esp. to the pleasures of the senses
platitude
ephemeral
demur
hedonism
44. Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
apathy
contiguous
perfidious
irascible
45. Reject; mock; show contempt for
aesthetic
propriety
flout
ephemeral
46. To make larger; to expand
magnanimity
vituperative
intransigence
dilate
47. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
disparate
capricious
fawn
aver
48. To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
audacious
equivocate
recondite
effrontery
49. To increase in intensity - power - or prestige
perfunctory
disabuse
alacrity
aggrandize
50. Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
stoic
rarefied
contiguous
disseminate