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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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Subjects
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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. Bright - brilliant - glowing
precipitate
luminous
apprise
abeyance
2. Tending to believe too readily; gullible
abate
queries
document
credulous
3. Intricate and complicated
rhetoric
negate
mollify
convoluted
4. Able to be molded - altered - or bent
inert
specious
fulminate
plastic
5. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
torpid
neologism
capricious
impede
6. Cancel
waver
dismiss
magnanimity
rescind
7. Soothe
mollify
craven
waver
torque
8. Lazy
indolent
spurious
catalyst
canon
9. Waver; fluctuate
incipient
vacillate
frugality
rancorous
10. Unprejudiced
mundane
disinterested
hyperbole
convoluted
11. An established set of principles or code of laws - often religious in nature
foment
diatribe
parody
canon
12. Long - passionate - and vehement speech
grandiloquence
confound
apprise
harangue
13. Justified; authorized
warranted
tenuous
perfidy
ebullience
14. To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
distend
innocuous
aggregate
attenuate
15. Appease
immutable
fulminate
propitiate
tangential
16. Calm; not easily disturbed
repudiate
harangue
phlegmatic
equivocate
17. Hypothesis; surmise
tenacity
deference
recant
supposition
18. To annoy
lethargic
hyperbole
vex
coagulate
19. Characterized by filth - grime - or squalor; foul
sordid
arduous
malinger
obdurate
20. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
diverge
polemical
prescience
proliferate
21. To calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity
mollify
wary
vacillate
idolatrous
22. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
precarious
dormant
fortuitous
mercurial
23. Capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable
lavish
denigrate
chaos
malleable
24. Effectiveness
empirical
ardor
imperturbable
efficacy
25. Wandering away from the subject
eloquent
digression
rarefy
plethora
26. Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
decorum
incipient
audacious
saturate
27. To make more bearable
propriety
incongruity
alleviate
placate
28. Split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
esoteric
dichotomy
pith
bolster
29. Without feeling; imperturbable; stoical
quotidian
arduous
discredit
impassive
30. To sooth or pacify
placate
endemic
felicitous
fatuous
31. Make shiny by rubbing; polish
cogent
pious
stolid
burnish
32. Useless; hopeless; ineffectual
tacit
futile
aver
chary
33. Calm; sluggish; unemotional
homogenous
filibuster
phlegmatic
rhetoric
34. Extreme dislike
insipid
bolster
invective
antipathy
35. Gather; accumulate
soporific
peruse
perfunctory
aggregate
36. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
fawn
profligate
implode
pragmatic
37. To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
dirge
relegate
chauvinist
adulterate
38. Complex or complicated
misanthrope
resolve
impermeable
convoluted
39. Deep; not superficial; complete
aggrandize
acerbic
eclectic
profound
40. Quick to act without thinking
metaphor
impetuous
fawning
bombastic
41. To stun - baffle - or amaze
stupefy
emollient
profound
pernicious
42. Sharp and irritating to the senses
pungent
onerous
waver
axiomatic
43. Lacking funds; without money
sparse
burgeon
impecunious
negate
44. Violation of a law; sin
avarice
ambiguous
transgression
abyss
45. Diligent; persistent; hard-working
obviate
audacious
foment
sedulous
46. To obtain by deception or flattery
inveigle
inundate
sparse
ingenuous
47. Model of excellence or perfection
bucolic
prevaricate
verbose
paragon
48. Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
strut
felicitous
meticulous
austere
49. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
dissonance
plastic
fatuous
germane
50. To permeate throughout
insipid
credulous
pervade
discrete