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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. Careless - too relaxed
luminous
lax
finesse
scanty
2. A chance event - a coincidence - a stroke of luck
teem
fluke
explicit
wistful
3. Good will towards all people - love of mankind - act of generosity
prudent
philanthropy
sardonic
embellish
4. Native - produced or living in a particular area
odious
indigenous
egocentric
delude
5. To support with evidence
broach
plausible
finesse
corroborate
6. Abundant - lavish
exacerbate
copious
destitute
rebuke
7. Determination - a state of being convinced
conviction
reprehensible
terse
temperance
8. Cowardly
ogle
craven
steadfast
guise
9. To cause to stand motionless with awe or other intense emotion
insidious
transfix
spurious
gravity
10. Strong and healthy - vigorous
robust
caustic
waver
nuance
11. The full range of something
respite
paltry
gamut
enshroud
12. Connection between different groups - a close bond - an illicit sexual relationship
stymie
thwart
liaison
obliterate
13. Standard for judging (plural: criteria)
eulogize
criterion
vapid
deference
14. Careless - remiss
pedantic
negligent
trivial
infamy
15. To get in the way of - to hinder - to block
enshroud
discerning
oligarchy
stymie
16. Submissive - behaving like a slave
servile
didactic
fodder
martyr
17. To lessen in value - to belittle
garner
futile
depreciate
temperance
18. A specialized vocabulary of a group - an obscure language
efface
jargon
hubris
ebb
19. Shameful wickedness - evil - depravity
prudent
turpitude
botch
copious
20. Disdainful - scornfully mocking
eclectic
fluke
sardonic
diva
21. To make great
aggrandize
osmosis
digress
insipid
22. Winding - twisting - full of curves
tortuous
callous
hiatus
saccharine
23. To make evident by showing
listless
conviction
harbinger
manifest
24. A principle - doctrine or belief held as so by a group
tenet
exorbitant
maverick
opportunist
25. Clown or fool
buffoon
aggrandize
liaison
obviate
26. Marked by abundant production or offspring
capitulate
prolific
facade
quell
27. To stray from the main subject
myriad
blanch
digress
paltry
28. Arrogantly assertive - positive about unproven ideas
trivial
turpitude
dogmatic
hiatus
29. Unceasing - never-ending - flowing without interruption
temperance
opaque
emigrate
incessant
30. To show excessive affection - to be overly flattering in return for favor
augment
fawning
viable
sardonic
31. To remove from consideration
quaint
surfeit
table
banal
32. To stare at in a disrespectful way
agenda
stymie
ogle
furtive
33. To gently criticize
reprove
desecrate
gullible
spurious
34. Without a permanent home - constantly wandering
hyperbole
amnesty
tout
nomadic
35. Irregular - abnormal - unusual
digress
provincial
exacting
anomalous
36. Disposition towards mercy - mildness
scanty
clemency
exalt
benign
37. Extravagant exaggeration used as a figure of speech
urbane
delude
hyperbole
jaunt
38. Crucial - something around which things turn
laconic
faction
garner
pivotal
39. The study of God or religion
cache
foray
theology
nuance
40. Useless - hopeless - without effect
impotent
intrepid
futile
nominal
41. A powerful argument to defend a thesis
dupe
reprehensible
polemic
indigenous
42. Any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs - or practice
replenish
egregious
heresy
oligarchy
43. To place side by side
rebuff
efface
juxtapose
genteel
44. Instructive - intended to educate
galvanize
didactic
liaison
circumspect
45. Something handed down from the past - a bequest
legacy
fluke
sloth
destitute
46. To gather and store away - to acquire by effort
abridge
table
garner
virulent
47. Pleasantly old-fashioned - picturesque
rebuff
quaint
chastise
fidelity
48. An emotional purification - an emotional release
catharsis
virulent
obviate
hubris
49. To weaken the support of - to injure in a slow or sneaky way
undermine
bulwark
dearth
acquiesce
50. Indifferent - a lack of energy - spiritless
enigma
listless
dupe
servile