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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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1. To appease; to calm by making concessions
aesthetic
placate
monotony
craven
2. A new word - expression - or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
preamble
astringent
distill
neologism
3. Pompous; grandiloquent
intrepid
abate
deride
bombastic
4. Arrogant; taking liberties
censure
perennial
presumptuous
tirade
5. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
harangue
denigrate
disparate
dissolution
6. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
emulate
condone
impassive
catalyst
7. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
ostentatious
tortuous
adulterate
pedantic
8. Ostracize; banish; outlaw
proscribe
pragmatic
aggregate
perspicacious
9. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
pervade
metaphor
buttress
laud
10. Occurring only occasionally - or in scattered instances
implacable
voracious
prohibitive
sporadic
11. Joking (often inappropriately); humorous
disinterested
vilify
indigence
facetious
12. Thrift; economy
impermeable
analogous
innocuous
frugality
13. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
satiate
repudiate
contentious
discrete
14. Cancel
rescind
enhance
sporadic
approbation
15. Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
whimsical
transient
volatile
indifferent
16. To examine with great care
pious
diffident
prevaricate
peruse
17. Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
tirade
chauvinist
frugality
obtuse
18. To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
discrete
pristine
furtive
putrefy
19. Inclined to prevent or forbid
aggrandize
prohibitive
wary
stigma
20. Aggressiveness; ferocity
attenuate
innocuous
truculence
relegate
21. Not capable of change
disabuse
immutable
audacious
hyperbole
22. Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
solicious
disparage
garrulous
ostentatious
23. To drink deeply
facetious
antipathy
quaff
inert
24. Lacking coherence
ebullience
irascible
disjointed
homogenous
25. Lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
torpor
bombastic
morose
aesthetic
26. To plunge or drop straight down
sublime
cacophonous
catalyst
plummet
27. Harmless; causing no damage
esoteric
convoluted
preen
innocuous
28. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
desiccate
opprobrium
axiomatic
waver
29. Thick; sticky
lament
profound
negate
viscous
30. Vibrate pendulumlike; waver
oscillate
astringent
caustic
equivocate
31. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
quixotic
converge
supplant
ambiguous
32. Devotion to pleasurable pursuits - esp. to the pleasures of the senses
disabuse
hedonism
intransigence
mitigate
33. Too trusting; gullible
chicanery
profligate
credulous
propitiate
34. Rude; insensitive
boorish
daunt
plethora
meticulous
35. To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
supplant
predilection
squander
adulterate
36. A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
satire
fallacy
sporadic
prescience
37. Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
neophyte
abstain
furtive
inured
38. Worsen; embitter
preen
bolster
viscous
exacerbate
39. Agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction - development - or change
refractory
phlegmatic
catalyst
canonical
40. Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
quotidian
truculence
propitiate
archaic
41. Made less dense (of a gas)
tenuous
rarefied
castigation
abeyance
42. Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
austere
assuage
zealous
iconoclast
43. Foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals
quixotic
disabuse
gregarious
propensity
44. Indifferent; free from self-interest
strut
disinterested
whimsical
exculpate
45. Aversion; dislike
antipathy
proliferate
cogent
presumptuous
46. Dictatorial in one's opinions
equanimity
pithy
dogmatic
venerate
47. Hint; imply; creep in
prodigious
goad
chauvinist
insinuate
48. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
aesthetic
sage
propriety
indeterminate
49. Deceit or trickery
rhetoric
permeable
deference
guile
50. Shining; issuing light
laud
laconic
luminous
chaos
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