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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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sat
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english
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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. Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
meticulous
inured
audacious
obsequious
2. An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
penury
inundate
fallacy
torque
3. Lacking interest or flavor
insipid
rhetoric
efficacy
impassive
4. A new word - expression - or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
obsequious
impede
neologism
decorum
5. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional)
specious
insensible
whimsical
assuage
6. Short-lived; fleeting
repudiate
fatuous
catalyst
ephemeral
7. Rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
bucolic
implacable
grandiloquence
incorporate
8. A medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals - esp. base metals into gold
odious
rancorous
ennui
alchemy
9. To give praise; to glorify
gullible
laud
paragon
obsequious
10. Happening by fortunate accident or chance
recant
canon
fortuitous
malingerer
11. Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
lucid
ingenuous
abate
redoubtable
12. Lethargic; sluggish; dormant
torpid
catalyst
chicanery
diatribe
13. Fearless and daring
enigma
gainsay
audacious
chicanery
14. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
grandiloquence
tout
torpor
inundate
15. To provide supporting evidence
opaque
insensible
indigence
corroborate
16. Urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
viscous
exigent
strut
discretion
17. To choose not to do something
assuage
qualified
abstain
aver
18. Ill-humored; sullen; melancholy
morose
squalid
discern
analogous
19. Ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
prattle
acumen
alleviate
assuage
20. Fall sharply
endemic
plummet
impecunious
chary
21. Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
evanescent
idolatrous
foment
relegate
22. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
onerous
tacit
flag
metaphor
23. Combine; unite in one body
tirade
amalgamate
quiescent
eloquent
24. Harmless
apathy
extrapolation
innocuous
bombastic
25. Overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
emollient
presumptuous
resolution
mitigate
26. Wisdom - caution - or restraint
apprise
placate
prudence
aggrandize
27. Exaggeration; overstatement
caustic
ebullient
tortuous
hyperbole
28. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
eulogy
prodigal
emollient
tout
29. Glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
preen
ameliorate
quotidian
fervor
30. Lack of consistency; difference
torpid
discrepancy
eccentric
presumptuous
31. Not harmonious; conflicting
impermeable
mercurial
discordant
perfunctory
32. Approach; tend to meet; come together
converge
credulous
disabuse
amenable
33. Not moving - active - or in motion; at rest
vacillate
dilettante
ascetic
static
34. Wandering and unpredictable
erratic
viable
tirade
euphemism
35. Shyness
didactic
stoic
chicanery
diffidence
36. Someone easily fooled
lament
ingenuous
dupe
amalgamate
37. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
prescience
anachronism
fallacy
inadvertently
38. Very cautious
tenuous
prolific
morose
wary
39. Someone who shows off learning
opprobrium
urbane
estimable
pedant
40. Bitter scolding; invective
belie
proliferate
iconoclast
diatribe
41. To flatter or praise excessively
insipid
ostentation
fawn
placate
42. Silent - not talkative
obfuscate
skeptic
taciturn
secrete
43. Self-important or pompous writing or speech
truculence
inchoate
bombast
capricious
44. Deception by means of craft or guile
chicanery
phlegmatic
garrulous
disinterested
45. Biting in wit
disparate
impassive
paucity
caustic
46. Clear; easily understood
perfidy
opprobium
relegate
lucid
47. Model of perfection
plethora
bombastic
paragon
disabuse
48. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
dissonance
disjointed
erratic
repudiate
49. A speech honoring the dead
eulogy
approbation
cacophonous
mundane
50. To increase in power - influence - and reputation
endemic
converge
aggrandize
proliferate