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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 raise high - to glorify
latent
nemesis
viable
exalt
2. The full range of something
advocate
gamut
deference
quintessential
3. To soothe - to appease with concessions
exorbitant
placate
provincial
rebuff
4. To erase - to rub away the features - to obscure
efface
bulwark
garner
stymie
5. Difficult to do - laborious
esoteric
convey
arduous
trivial
6. A person who takes advantage of opportunity with no regard for principle
tentative
pivotal
compatible
opportunist
7. A good or bad emanation of force from someone or something - in Hinduism and Buddhism the force created by someone's actions to perpetuate reincarnation
irreverent
karma
exorbitant
gamut
8. A parody - an imitation that makes crude fun of something
stagnate
travesty
augment
listless
9. To blot out leaving no traces - to destroy
delineate
obliterate
eccentric
plausible
10. To defame - to slander - to blacken the character of
abridge
listless
vilify
oust
11. Unfeeling and insensitive
mercenary
aversion
callous
hubris
12. Loud - harsh - grating
magnanimous
maverick
waver
strident
13. A break or interruption from work or any other established routine
finesse
precept
pique
hiatus
14. Program - things to be done
rustic
agenda
liaison
teem
15. A powerful rival - a usually unconquerable opponent
partition
nemesis
rescind
vivacious
16. A state of being faithful - loyal
emigrate
efface
manifest
fidelity
17. Drawn from many sources
incessant
lax
eclectic
chastise
18. Abundance - excessive amount
surfeit
pivotal
nomadic
enigma
19. Ill will - active dislike
karma
quaint
animosity
waver
20. Gloomy - bad tempered - a sullen disposition
morose
virulent
lucid
digress
21. Truthfulness - great honesty - frankness
candor
gamut
agenda
obscure
22. The most perfect example of
quintessential
resplendent
trite
tenuous
23. Strong and healthy - vigorous
infamy
robust
fallacy
insipid
24. To forgive or free from blame
rustic
forfeit
judicious
absolve
25. Without a permanent home - constantly wandering
judicious
nomadic
dearth
fledgling
26. To gather together something for a purpose - to arrange in order
baroque
resplendent
botch
marshal
27. To come together as one - to fuse or unite
tedious
coalesce
abdicate
stoic
28. Something that is unchangeable - permanent
immutable
hyperbole
enshroud
desecrate
29. Boringly scholarly - academic in mode
tepid
clique
arduous
pedantic
30. Sluggish - laziness - indolence
exorbitant
sloth
osmosis
capitulate
31. To criticize or reprimand sharply
nullify
rebuke
coherent
extol
32. A trick or deceptive scheme
prosaic
stratagem
pedantic
transfix
33. Raw material for a given end
lament
candor
fodder
digress
34. A short pleasure trip
delude
vapid
jaunt
resilient
35. To be indecisive or inconstant - to fluctuate in opinion
judicious
zealot
waver
moot
36. A specialized vocabulary of a group - an obscure language
jargon
tedious
fodder
emulate
37. Marked by abundant production or offspring
facade
egregious
prolific
incipient
38. Noisy commotion - uproar
clemency
tumult
trivial
vestige
39. A person who serves only for money - motivated by greed
mercenary
anomalous
transfix
latent
40. To arouse suddenly - to stimulate - spur to action
galvanize
sardonic
heresy
dogmatic
41. Foolishly impractical and idealistic
quixotic
stymie
spurious
surmise
42. Lacking taste - dull - bland
winsome
insipid
benign
extol
43. Easily deceived
obliterate
spurious
gullible
juxtapose
44. Primitive - rural - lacking city comforts
quell
rustic
convey
lucid
45. To increase or enlarge
broach
winsome
jargon
augment
46. To make great
harbinger
aggrandize
surmise
depravity
47. Emotionally moving
extol
succinct
criterion
poignant
48. Brief - without much attention to detail
augment
cursory
exorbitant
aesthetic
49. To describe or picture in words - to detail
delineate
liaison
novel
engaging
50. An emotional purification - an emotional release
aggrandize
catharsis
temperance
polemic