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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. Doubtful; unsettled; questionable; perplexing
implode
exacerbate
veracity
problematic
2. Hard; strenuous
arduous
naive
digression
insipid
3. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
eloquent
metaphor
esoteric
permeate
4. Penitent
contrite
burgeon
cacaphony
innocuous
5. Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant
secrete
repudiate
opaque
profuse
6. Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
meticulous
laud
plummet
prodigious
7. To soften; to lessen
mitigate
abate
esoteric
permeable
8. Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
indifferent
malinger
misanthrope
reticent
9. Outgoing - sociable
gregarious
polemical
stolid
anomaly
10. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
inured
facetious
audacious
analogous
11. Trying to please by behaving obsequiously - flattering or cringing
aberrant
penury
fawning
fervent
12. To question or oppose
resolution
zealous
demur
onerous
13. To make worse or more severe
exacerbate
pathological
venerate
prodigal
14. Firmly established by nature or habit
axiom
apathy
inherent
welter
15. Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
monotony
subpoena
impermeable
caustic
16. Strip; deprive
divest
candid
perfidious
ingenuous
17. Complex or complicated
fawning
convoluted
stolid
conciliatory
18. To prevent; to make unnecessary
ennui
penchant
obviate
parody
19. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
surfeit
mercurial
artless
cynicism
20. Lessen in intensity; moderate; appease
placate
virulent
mitigate
quibble
21. One who spends money wastefully
derision
inundate
spendthrift
vituperative
22. About to happen; impending
imminent
glib
loquacious
vacillate
23. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
pungent
pedantic
diatribe
dismiss
24. To produce - cause - or bring about
recondite
engender
censure
iconoclast
25. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
shard
alleviate
zeal
neophyte
26. Without deceit
tout
ostentation
cogent
guileless
27. Fleeting; passing quickly; brief
transient
desiccate
vituperative
aberrant
28. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
eulogy
lucid
quotidian
insipid
29. Not fully formed; disorganized
enumerate
reproach
catalyst
inchoate
30. Be thrifty; set limits
stint
precipitate
morose
assuage
31. Portray; depict; sketch
abscond
delineate
ephemeral
divest
32. Dry up
disparate
satiate
desiccate
ardor
33. Potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
abstemious
efficacy
latent
luminous
34. Calm; placid
irresolute
zeal
imperturbable
aggrandize
35. Discord; opposite of harmony
caustic
tirade
dissemble
dissonance
36. To disguise or conceal; to mislead
dissemble
dissonance
capricious
eclectic
37. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
capricious
grandiloquent
abeyance
censure
38. To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
exculpate
quiescence
desiccate
diverge
39. Burst inward
reticent
canonical
corroborate
implode
40. Hermit; loner
dilate
incipient
accolade
recluse
41. To weaken; to reduce in vitality
morose
enervate
incipient
proclivity
42. Cause; produce
pithy
chicanery
dupe
engender
43. To penetrate
dormant
secrete
transient
permeate
44. Pacify or soothe; relieve
appease
caustic
ameliorate
malevolent
45. Intended to delay
dilatory
audacious
placate
divest
46. Concerned and attentive; eager
grandiloquent
pith
solicitous
satire
47. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
elicit
gouge
abstemious
cacaphony
48. Violation of a law; sin
default
transgression
castigation
derivative
49. To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
equivocate
laconic
hegemony
emollient
50. Obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly
mitigate
reproach
recalcitrant
eloquent