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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. A disposition in favor of something; preference
perfunctory
occlude
predilection
tractable
2. A harsh and disagreeable combination - often of sounds
flag
facetious
dissonance
dismiss
3. Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood
imperturbable
mercurial
imminent
anachronism
4. Not moving - active - or in motion; at rest
divest
static
dilatory
lethargic
5. To flatter or praise excessively
intransigence
fawn
pragmatic
urbane
6. Aggressiveness; ferocity
enervate
resolve
truculence
disabuse
7. Urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
exigent
flout
approbation
appease
8. Following or in agreement with accepted - traditional standards
canonical
proliferate
pungent
imperturbable
9. To question or oppose
levee
demur
placate
conciliatory
10. Deviation from the normal order - form - or rule; abnormality
zealot
impassive
anomaly
diffidence
11. To stop up; to prevent the passage of
occlude
antipathy
gainsay
banal
12. To obstruct or block
occlude
dogma
reverent
ebullient
13. Inform
apprise
irascible
diffident
stymie
14. Cause; produce
engender
canon
vacillate
anomaly
15. Turmoil; bewildering jumble
propitiate
loquacious
mollify
welter
16. Artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
torque
malevolent
ingenuous
diatribe
17. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
prevaricate
ingenuous
dogma
mendacious
18. A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
tirade
engender
daunt
probity
19. Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
quotidian
audacious
impervious
squander
20. Marked with parallel bands; grooved
ascetic
prodigal
ebullient
striated
21. Talkative
contiguous
loquacious
rescind
enervate
22. Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
rarefy
apprise
volatile
fledgling
23. Learned; scholarly
malleable
loquacious
derivative
erudite
24. Respectful; worshipful
empirical
opaque
inchoate
reverent
25. Disintegration; looseness in morals
pine
dissolution
discredit
onerous
26. Languor; weariness
perfidy
innocuous
lassitude
dupe
27. Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
iconoclast
ambivalence
obdurate
aggregate
28. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
gregarious
truculent
dichotomy
fawn
29. Writ summoning a witness to appear
repudiate
subpoena
precursor
vacillate
30. Calm; placid
sage
prodigious
imperturbable
burgeon
31. Improvised; done without preparation
contrite
waver
extemporaneous
chicanery
32. Make unnecessary; get rid of
obviate
ephemeral
static
anomaly
33. Arrogant; taking liberties
plasticity
presumptuous
alleviate
subtle
34. Violating accepted dogma or convention
approbation
exacerbate
heretical
crescendo
35. Unoriginal; obtained from another source
derivative
quotidian
enhance
credulous
36. Greed - esp. for wealth
avarice
eclectic
adulterate
piety
37. To combine several elements into a whole
amalgamate
paragon
catalyst
prolific
38. Excessive praise; intense adoration
grandiloquent
abate
adulation
problematic
39. Immunity from punishment or penalty
dilatory
impunity
catalyst
truculence
40. To reject the validity of
vacillate
didactic
obdurate
repudiate
41. To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
tout
prevaricate
penury
perennial
42. To block; thwart
idolatry
stymie
digression
zeal
43. One who feigns illness to escape duty
decorum
malingerer
obsequious
irascible
44. A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
presumptuous
dissemble
satire
erudite
45. An overabundance; a surplus
plethora
resolution
coagulate
plummet
46. Able to speak clearly and expressively
condone
obtuse
verbose
articulate
47. Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
endemic
whimsical
intransigence
conciliatory
48. Prevent by taking action in advance
polemical
forestall
recondite
prosaic
49. Controversial; argumentative
impassive
substantiate
polemical
pervade
50. Excess; overindulgence
pervasive
dissemble
surfeit
truculent