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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. Colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
misanthrope
delineate
spectrum
demur
2. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
invective
neophyte
engender
avarice
3. Impartial and honest in speech
candid
inherent
quixotic
malleable
4. The willingness to comply with the wishes of others
decorum
complaisance
levity
insinuate
5. Worsen; embitter
exacerbate
indifferent
recluse
phlegmatic
6. Lying; habitually dishonest
mendacious
deference
bombast
imperturbable
7. To stun - baffle - or amaze
stupefy
loquacious
plethora
eclectic
8. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
porous
chicanery
fervid
abstemious
9. Cursory; done without care or interest
perfunctory
heretical
penury
disparate
10. Stubborn; unmanageable
censure
volatile
refractory
inimical
11. Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
contentious
presumptuous
rescind
sporadic
12. Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
lethargic
disparate
emulate
approbation
13. Lack of harmony; absurdity
burgeon
lethargic
prevaricate
incongruity
14. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
tortuous
ubiquitous
obstinate
malleable
15. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
insipid
propensity
variegated
morose
16. Cowardly
florid
burgeon
proclivity
craven
17. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
banal
quiescent
attenuate
grandiloquent
18. Dry up
desiccate
waver
stoic
plethora
19. Provide written evidence
rarefy
obviate
banal
document
20. Willing to betray one's trust
arbitrate
tacit
engender
perfidious
21. Fitness; correct conduct
amalgamate
tout
propriety
impassive
22. Abnormal or deviant
chaos
perspicacious
articulate
aberrant
23. To make impure
sanction
obsequious
magnanimity
adulterate
24. A force that causes rotation
frugality
torque
candid
rhetoric
25. Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
recalcitrant
monotony
zeal
propitiate
26. Establish by evidence; verify; support
substantiate
subpoena
deterrent
ephemeral
27. Disintegration; looseness in morals
sanction
inundate
didactic
dissolution
28. Thicken; congeal; clot
credulous
obviate
coagulate
elegy
29. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
aberrant
nascent
subpoena
enhance
30. In an initial stage; not fully formed
solicious
desiccate
inchoate
alchemy
31. Easily understood; clear; intelligible
imminent
guile
lucid
impecunious
32. To yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
phlegmatic
prolific
pine
impervious
33. Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
impetuous
mundane
axiomatic
laud
34. Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
esoteric
opaque
philanthropy
inundate
35. At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
immutable
filibuster
reticent
quiescent
36. Dull; unimaginative
specious
volatile
prosaic
plethora
37. Soak thoroughly
saturate
exigent
propriety
eclectic
38. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
salubrious
truculent
equivocate
capricious
39. Convincing and well reasoned
cogent
audacious
distend
accolade
40. Contradict; give a false impression
euphemism
ephemeral
belie
rhetoric
41. Extremely careful about details
amalgamate
disjointed
pine
meticulous
42. Stubborn - unyielding
fawning
obstinate
alacrity
onerous
43. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
impermeable
resolution
capricious
idolatrous
44. Urgent; requiring immediate action
archaic
exigent
eulogy
innocuous
45. An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
superfluous
fallacy
innocuous
sporadic
46. The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
pedantic
whimsical
gregarious
virulent
47. Lie
prevaricate
venerate
recant
erudite
48. To conciliate; to appease
assuage
eclectic
polemical
propitiate
49. Exonerate; to clear of blame
exculpate
onerous
permeate
impetuous
50. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
repudiate
hackneyed
luminous
reverent