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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Calm and peaceful
antipathy
halcyon
reticent
pedagogy
2. Not moving - active - or in motion; at rest
vacillate
proliferate
static
archaic
3. Known or understood by only a few
vexation
anarchy
recluse
esoteric
4. Changing one's mind quickly and often
florid
capricious
pristine
truculence
5. Warn; reprove
compliant
admonish
gullible
disparate
6. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
condone
reticent
grandiloquence
beneficent
7. Lacking coherence
inchoate
eulogy
denigrate
disjointed
8. Adorn; ornament; enhance - as a story
embellish
desiccate
refute
obsequious
9. Limited; restricted
desiccate
qualified
bolster
erudite
10. Adherence to highest principles; uprightness
levee
impecunious
advocate
probity
11. Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
parody
compendium
guileless
pious
12. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
deride
obsequious
corroborate
plastic
13. Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
apprise
abyss
emulate
tenuous
14. Respectful; worshipful
desultory
truculent
laconic
reverent
15. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
hyperbole
ingenuous
aver
verbose
16. To court favor by a flattering manner
precipitate
fawn
obsequious
perspicacious
17. Incapable of being pacified
noxious
implacable
penurious
erudite
18. Using few words
condone
laconic
tirade
commensurate
19. Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread
ubiquitous
ambiguous
repudiate
torque
20. Excessive showiness
astringent
ostentation
abate
equivocate
21. Not capable of change
hackneyed
immutable
propriety
banal
22. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
intractable
proliferate
squalid
maverick
23. Suspended action
sporadic
capricious
abeyance
artless
24. Narrow-mindedness; isolation
credulous
rancorous
perfidious
insularity
25. Supporting bar
torpor
apprise
strut
bolster
26. Joking (often inappropriately); humorous
facetious
intransigence
abscond
enumerate
27. Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
desiccate
solvent
enumerate
loquacious
28. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
metaphor
transgression
implicit
complaisant
29. In an initial stage; not fully formed
imperturbable
stipulate
alchemy
inchoate
30. Cancel
audacious
rescind
beneficent
endemic
31. Pompous; using inflated language
cogent
bombastic
propensity
viscous
32. Easily understood; clear; intelligible
lucid
untenable
analogous
dupe
33. Fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal
elegy
zealot
perennial
ostentatious
34. Aggressiveness; ferocity
fallacy
impetuous
truculence
imperturbable
35. A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
paean
pedantic
disseminate
fervid
36. A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect - esp. in literature and art
indigence
inadvertently
parody
decorum
37. Alertly watchful
malinger
gregarious
innocuous
vigilant
38. Accustomed; hardened
precipitate
levity
inured
emulate
39. Earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding
levee
transitory
assuage
facetious
40. Justified; authorized
banal
cogent
pristine
warranted
41. Unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
abate
alchemy
ameliorate
inert
42. Someone who shows off learning
prodigious
specious
pedant
bombastic
43. Disguise; pretend
impassive
buttress
dissemble
condone
44. The willingness to comply with the wishes of others
complaisance
empirical
desultory
compendium
45. Inclined to prevent or forbid
laconic
implacable
prohibitive
appease
46. Determination; firmness of purpose
obdurate
resolve
recondite
bolster
47. Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density - force - degree)
striated
attenuate
inchoate
surfeit
48. Based on observation or experiment
empirical
problematic
repudiate
oscillate
49. Too trusting; gullible
disingenuous
occlude
credulous
philanthropy
50. Something or someone misplaced in time
pedantic
anachronism
perfunctory
obsequious