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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.
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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. Loyal - faithful
incipient
opaque
steadfast
animosity
2. Minimal - hardly sufficient
hiatus
verbose
novel
scanty
3. Lively - spirited
magnanimous
vivacious
grovel
affinity
4. To place side by side
abdicate
tentative
juxtapose
legacy
5. Easily deceived
juxtapose
abysmal
gullible
enigma
6. Clown or fool
buffoon
clique
blithe
dogmatic
7. Emotionally moving
surmise
poignant
malaise
reciprocal
8. To gently criticize
reprove
junction
capitulate
emigrate
9. Happily - lighthearted - joyful
manifest
blithe
clemency
arduous
10. Moral corruption
indigenous
buffoon
augment
depravity
11. Understood by only a few
ogle
esoteric
manifest
pretentious
12. Lacking power - helpless - unable to perform sexual intercourse
martyr
impotent
depravity
trivial
13. To compete - to contest
intrepid
vie
rebuff
coherent
14. Dull - unimaginative - lacking excitement
hubris
prosaic
colloquial
pivotal
15. To raise high - to glorify
exalt
rebuff
indigent
placate
16. A principle - doctrine or belief held as so by a group
dearth
tenet
magnanimous
jargon
17. Brief in speech - using very few words
verbose
botch
laconic
trite
18. Disdainful - scornfully mocking
compatible
odyssey
nullify
sardonic
19. Workable - capable of living and growing - able to succeed
viable
winsome
travesty
turpitude
20. Clumsy - awkward - incompetent
inept
oligarchy
dogmatic
table
21. Abundance - excessive amount
heresy
temperance
surfeit
surmise
22. Concise - brief - free of extra words
verbose
terse
emissary
blithe
23. (adj.) wordy - not concentrated; (v.) to spread widely
fodder
diffuse
palatable
peruse
24. Crucial - something around which things turn
pivotal
nuance
hiatus
irreverent
25. Disposition towards mercy - mildness
clemency
malaise
usurp
insipid
26. To make an ugly disapproving facial expression
grimace
fledgling
agenda
bulwark
27. To grow strong - to grow abundantly - to thrive or prosper - to make broad and sweeping gestures
diffuse
flourish
engaging
hubris
28. An opening move - a preliminary offer
osmosis
candor
gamut
overture
29. A trick or deceptive scheme
stratagem
vie
placate
virulent
30. Mutual - interchangeable - shared
reciprocal
obscure
viable
robust
31. A refreshing drink - something that invigorates
rebuke
tonic
permeate
imperious
32. Keenly perceptive - shrewd
pious
odyssey
discerning
callous
33. A person who breaks away from the crowd - a nonconformist
succinct
maverick
surfeit
obviate
34. To decline - to recede
opaque
clemency
ebb
dearth
35. To erase - to rub away the features - to obscure
temperance
efface
candor
expunge
36. Easily taught - submissive
vestige
docile
vie
corroborate
37. Believable
herald
precept
plausible
diffuse
38. To erase - to strike out
verbose
junction
exorbitant
expunge
39. Something used as a defense - a strong protection
unilateral
pious
craven
bulwark
40. Delicacy of workmanship - subtlety - skillful maneuvering
finesse
insidious
obviate
expedite
41. To swarm - to be inundated - to become full to overflowing
convey
explicit
teem
liaison
42. A person with great enthusiasm for and commitment to a cause
tenet
absolve
tedious
zealot
43. Extravagantly ornate - flamboyant - characterized by bold ornamentation
surmise
baroque
augment
gamut
44. Unceasing - never-ending - flowing without interruption
egocentric
incessant
judicious
furtive
45. Good will towards all people - love of mankind - act of generosity
destitute
tirade
philanthropy
obscure
46. A shortage
dearth
facade
intrepid
pique
47. To hurt or rile the feelings of someone - irritate
pique
replenish
chronic
oligarchy
48. Noisy commotion - uproar
tumult
trite
plausible
blithe
49. To infer on minimal grounds - conjecture - suppose
saccharine
agenda
inept
surmise
50. To put an end to - to squelch - to calm
ogle
static
opaque
quell