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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. Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme - unquestioned devotion
lament
misanthrope
fulminate
fanatical
2. Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
censure
supersede
gainsay
disseminate
3. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
garrulous
conciliatory
laud
spurious
4. Without feeling; imperturbable; stoical
levity
capricious
impassive
veracity
5. Occurring only occasionally - or in scattered instances
proliferate
sporadic
impervious
qualms
6. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
ambiguous
repudiate
trenchant
engender
7. Great disorder or confusion
divulge
innocuous
ingenuous
chaos
8. Waver; fluctuate
pine
contrite
discredit
vacillate
9. Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
lethargic
audacious
anachronism
catalyst
10. Pacify or soothe; relieve
inherent
lavish
appease
propitiate
11. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
arbitrate
antipathy
obsequious
empirical
12. To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
profuse
maverick
putrefy
implode
13. Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
euphemism
anomaly
perfidious
impervious
14. Reconciling; soothing
conciliatory
cogent
audacious
tacit
15. Excess; overindulgence
surfeit
precipitate
loquacious
recalcitrant
16. To judge a dispute between two opposing parties
arbitrate
superfluous
innocuous
condone
17. Unpredictable; fickle
prosaic
nebulous
exonerate
capricious
18. The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
emulate
laconic
mendacity
tacit
19. Using few words; terse
meticulous
capricious
laconic
obdurate
20. To provide supporting evidence
piety
corroborate
perennial
ingenuous
21. Poem or song expressing lamentation
pragmatic
diatribe
elegy
laconic
22. Attacking cherished traditions
iconoclast
anachronism
dissolution
quixotic
23. A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
garrulous
transitory
convention
acerbic
24. To reject the validity of
preen
repudiate
solicitous
probity
25. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
cynicism
rancorous
recalcitrant
caustic
26. Willing to betray one's trust
perfidious
dearth
eulogy
laud
27. Accustomed; hardened
pervasive
inured
opaque
zealous
28. A sorrowful poem or speech
incongruity
admonish
elegy
disingenuous
29. Sharing a border; touching; adjacent
prudence
preen
contiguous
ephemeral
30. A force that causes rotation
viable
torque
sporadic
magnanimity
31. To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
empirical
desiccate
divest
hegemony
32. Incapable of being pacified
implacable
neologism
dogmatic
plethora
33. Be thrifty; set limits
superfluous
impassive
naive
stint
34. Excessively decorated or embellished
approbation
tenuous
approbation
florid
35. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
squalid
condone
sublime
torpor
36. Silent - not talkative
officious
taciturn
ascetic
warranted
37. Diligent
peruse
plethora
aesthetic
assiduous
38. Thick; sticky
prodigal
hyperbole
viscous
neophyte
39. Relieve
precursor
alleviate
supposition
obsequious
40. Pure; uncorrupted; clean
contrite
adulation
catalyst
pristine
41. Riddle; difficult problem
disparage
alleviate
conundrum
hackneyed
42. Deviating from the norm
aberrant
intransigent
anomaly
ostentatious
43. Not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
intractable
negate
adulation
subtle
44. To disclose something secret
divulge
amalgamate
arduous
placate
45. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
tacit
secrete
ennui
truculent
46. To dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care
caustic
preamble
gregarious
preen
47. Not capable of change
immutable
impassive
anomaly
penury
48. To permeate throughout
pervade
stolid
naive
sanction
49. Associated with war and the armed forces
austere
explicit
martial
plethora
50. Immunity from punishment or penalty
prevaricate
impunity
propriety
placate