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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. To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
dissemble
mollify
specious
plasticity
2. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
plethora
ameliorate
metaphor
profound
3. Respect - courtesy
deference
idolatry
anomaly
inchoate
4. An extremely deep hole
malleable
impassive
perfidious
abyss
5. Injure; hurt
assuage
contrite
analogous
impair
6. Something that brings about a change in something else
catalyst
discordant
endemic
repudiate
7. Having or showing often vicious ill-will - spite - or hatred
phlegmatic
malevolent
prosaic
disingenuous
8. Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
dilettante
vacillate
reticent
fanatical
9. Vary; go in different directions from the same point
diverge
subpoena
decorum
elicit
10. Overcharge
obdurate
gouge
chicanery
guile
11. Drowsy; dull
welter
supplant
viscous
lethargic
12. Inform
prolific
implacable
presumptuous
apprise
13. One who spends money wastefully
spendthrift
cynicism
conundrum
pungent
14. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule; abnormality
idolatrous
innocuous
repudiate
anomaly
15. Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
subside
felicitous
infelicitous
voracious
16. Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
morose
implicit
convoluted
qualms
17. Predictable - cliched - boring
tortuous
disabuse
banal
advocate
18. A mournful poem - esp. one lamenting the dead
hyperbole
proliferate
elegy
onerous
19. Exaggeration; overstatement
luminous
articulate
vituperate
hyperbole
20. To deliberately obscure; to make confusing
obfuscate
venerate
anachronism
arduous
21. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
rarefy
subtle
diverge
diffident
22. To illegally use or reproduce
foment
pirate
superfluous
erudite
23. Wisdom - caution - or restraint
predilection
prudence
occlude
compendium
24. A superficial remark - esp. one offered as meaningful
inured
platitude
dissemble
dissemble
25. Stubborn - unyielding
canon
discretion
obstinate
propensity
26. To judge a dispute between two opposing parties
exculpate
arbitrate
euphemism
extrapolation
27. Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
castigate
reprobate
querulous
culpable
28. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
amalgamate
corroborate
guile
partisan
29. Harmless; causing no damage
innocuous
implicit
idolatrous
exonerate
30. Intentional obstruction - esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
inadvertently
aggrandize
filibuster
proclivity
31. To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
tractable
dupe
sanction
veracity
32. To give praise; to glorify
supplant
mitigate
laud
ingenuous
33. Dealing with - appreciative of - or responsive to art or the beautiful
desultory
astringent
permeate
aesthetic
34. The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady - uninterrupted rhythm
oscillation
perfunctory
guile
commensurate
35. Capable of being shaped
homogenous
malleable
culpable
exacerbate
36. Narrow-mindedness; isolation
paragon
insularity
wary
misanthrope
37. A generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
plasticity
precipitate
convention
cogent
38. Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
enigmatic
preen
furtive
imperturbable
39. Characterized by filth - grime - or squalor; foul
satiate
emulate
sordid
malevolent
40. Willing to betray one's trust
garrulous
contentious
perfidious
pith
41. The condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
beneficent
tacit
mendacity
abate
42. The essential or central part
pith
qualms
inundate
tirade
43. To disguise or conceal; to mislead
derivative
lucid
mitigate
dissemble
44. Strong inclination; liking
apathy
penchant
quotidian
qualified
45. Languor; weariness
superfluous
plethora
squalid
lassitude
46. Satisfy fully
maverick
diffidence
endemic
satiate
47. A substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing
axiom
preen
catalyst
abscond
48. Dry up
repudiate
desiccate
fatuous
discordant
49. Lack of variation
capricious
monotony
disingenuous
elegy
50. Lament with music
precursor
efficacy
invective
dirge