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SAT Word Power
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Subjects
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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To snub - to refuse in a blunt or rude way
eclectic
rebuff
rustic
vie
2. To be indecisive or inconstant - to fluctuate in opinion
waver
laud
indigent
harbinger
3. Yearning - sad longing - a gentle desire
gullible
malaise
wistful
placate
4. To wander aimlessly
servile
coalesce
meander
chronic
5. Sluggish - laziness - indolence
opportunist
succinct
sloth
terse
6. Difficult to do - laborious
vestige
hiatus
lax
arduous
7. Habitual moderation - the avoidance of excess
censure
broach
wanton
temperance
8. Clumsy - awkward - incompetent
opportunist
nullify
affinity
inept
9. Suave - sophisticated - polished
reprehensible
stratagem
static
urbane
10. To imitate - to strive to equal
robust
emulate
jargon
austere
11. To repeal - cancel - render void
enigma
unilateral
nullify
bulwark
12. Difficult to see through - unclear - dark
deft
obscure
banal
opaque
13. Lively - spirited
harbinger
magnanimous
faction
vivacious
14. To make clear
elucidate
travesty
stagnate
sardonic
15. To open up a subject for discussion
callous
laconic
broach
levity
16. Secret - done by stealth - sly
rustic
furtive
baroque
teem
17. Reverent - devout - dutiful - may at times be marked by hypocrisy
docile
pious
fodder
circumspect
18. To refill - to supply once more
egregious
homage
blithe
replenish
19. To soothe - to appease with concessions
homogeneous
placate
circumspect
exacting
20. To move to a new country - to move to a new place
quaint
manifest
emigrate
urbane
21. To praise highly
extol
virulent
sloth
egocentric
22. Limited in outlook - narrow in ideas
foray
quintessential
exacting
provincial
23. A long difficult journey marked by changes in fortune
aversion
delineate
bulwark
odyssey
24. Boisterous - harsh sounding - noisy and disorderly
abysmal
homogeneous
vehement
raucous
25. Instructive - intended to educate
didactic
lax
vilify
clemency
26. To support - or be in favor of
thwart
ogle
advocate
magnanimous
27. To keep from free activity or expression - to restrain or even forbid
tenet
copious
inhibit
quintessential
28. To treat with disrespect
desecrate
rebuke
plausible
tenuous
29. Loyal - faithful
zenith
steadfast
fidelity
eclectic
30. Gentle - not harmful - kind
benign
virulent
anomalous
quintessential
31. A secret meeting of lovers
anomalous
levity
wanton
tryst
32. Seriousness
cache
incontrovertible
forfeit
gravity
33. Primitive - rural - lacking city comforts
rustic
tenuous
hubris
blithe
34. An official pardon for a group of people who violate a law
wistful
infamy
moot
amnesty
35. Determination - a state of being convinced
conviction
egocentric
enigma
winsome
36. The highest point
didactic
vie
indigent
zenith
37. Marked by abundant production or offspring
prolific
diatribe
raucous
reprove
38. A powerful argument to defend a thesis
polemic
dearth
philanthropy
stoic
39. To make evident by showing
prosaic
imperious
absolve
manifest
40. Wordy
gullible
eccentric
karma
verbose
41. To gather together something for a purpose - to arrange in order
clique
prudent
marshal
tenuous
42. The full range of something
elucidate
diatribe
gamut
dearth
43. Greatly demanding - requiring close attention
prosaic
furtive
dogmatic
exacting
44. Foolishly impractical and idealistic
blanch
quixotic
explicit
aesthetic
45. To cover - to enclose with a dark cover
reciprocal
enshroud
strident
pious
46. A principle - doctrine or belief held as so by a group
egocentric
strident
moot
tenet
47. A person who serves only for money - motivated by greed
abysmal
egregious
robust
mercenary
48. Strong or fixed dislike - a feeling of repugnance
aversion
stratagem
listless
digress
49. To prevent from being accomplished - to frustrate - to hinder
pedantic
thwart
desecrate
blanch
50. On one side alone
facade
gullible
unilateral
morose