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SAT Word Power
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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. Loud - harsh - grating
chastise
indigent
strident
destitute
2. Lacking power - helpless - unable to perform sexual intercourse
exalt
enshroud
impotent
convey
3. Hateful - evil - vile
strident
oligarchy
odious
mercenary
4. Strong and healthy - vigorous
homogeneous
robust
affinity
eclectic
5. To gather together something for a purpose - to arrange in order
marshal
insidious
desecrate
legacy
6. Glowing - bright - emitting light
prudent
luminous
fallacy
sloth
7. Gloomy - bad tempered - a sullen disposition
pious
prosaic
morose
botch
8. To seize wrongfully
benign
usurp
steadfast
magnanimous
9. To dismiss to a less prominent position - to banish
relegate
nominal
reciprocal
vie
10. Immoral - lewd - deliberate maliciousness - having no regard for others
ogle
forfeit
censure
wanton
11. Explosive - tends to burn quickly
scanty
extol
volatile
irreverent
12. Cunning duplicity - purposeful deceit
guile
aggrandize
relic
discerning
13. A long difficult journey marked by changes in fortune
odyssey
homogeneous
infamy
placate
14. Winding - twisting - full of curves
tortuous
pivotal
gullible
banal
15. To be indecisive or inconstant - to fluctuate in opinion
waver
delineate
oligarchy
benediction
16. To make great
aggrandize
plausible
moot
guise
17. To stray from the main subject
benign
digress
servile
moot
18. An indirect reference
allusion
meander
gullible
futile
19. Greatly demanding - requiring close attention
succinct
exacting
judicious
herald
20. An initial venture - to raid in search of plunder
foray
static
negligent
polemic
21. Dull - unimaginative - lacking excitement
prosaic
eccentric
listless
enigma
22. To transport - to conduct - to communicate
placate
temperance
convey
arduous
23. Keenly perceptive - shrewd
eclectic
immutable
depravity
discerning
24. Disrespectful - gently or humorously mocking
teem
placate
esoteric
irreverent
25. Poverty stricken - needy
tenuous
gravity
indigent
opaque
26. A parody - an imitation that makes crude fun of something
herald
partition
faction
travesty
27. Strong or fixed dislike - a feeling of repugnance
servile
aversion
fawning
raucous
28. To spread or seep through - to penetrate - to pervade
homogeneous
stoic
pivotal
permeate
29. Similar - of the same kind - uniform in nature
moot
exacerbate
homogeneous
explicit
30. Deserving of blame
permeate
reprehensible
servile
galvanize
31. A place of meeting or joining - a linkup
opportunist
egregious
delude
junction
32. A group - or part of a large group - united on an issue
faction
desecrate
engaging
fortuitous
33. Ill will - active dislike
depreciate
guile
aversion
animosity
34. To decline - to recede
ebb
liaison
spurious
diffuse
35. Unceasing - never-ending - flowing without interruption
oust
incessant
guile
cache
36. To lie inactive - to stay in one place
diva
maverick
expunge
stagnate
37. Without a permanent home - constantly wandering
gullible
overture
nomadic
indigent
38. Arrogantly assertive - positive about unproven ideas
marshal
reprehensible
dogmatic
insipid
39. To criticize or reprimand sharply
destitute
unilateral
rescind
rebuke
40. Secret - done by stealth - sly
enshroud
aggrandize
nomadic
furtive
41. To increase or enlarge
relegate
vehement
augment
furtive
42. Careless - too relaxed
preclude
lax
peruse
urbane
43. A state of being faithful - loyal
fidelity
obliterate
martyr
zealot
44. Boring - tiresome
fawning
tedious
urbane
convey
45. Suave - sophisticated - polished
clemency
urbane
begrudge
philanthropy
46. To show excessive affection - to be overly flattering in return for favor
capitulate
junction
fawning
resilient
47. A subtle distinction - a slight difference in definition
nuance
eclectic
feign
imperious
48. Pleasantly old-fashioned - picturesque
quaint
relegate
gravity
immaterial
49. Excessively sweet
clemency
immutable
saccharine
affinity
50. Something handed down from the past - a bequest
jeopardy
aversion
legacy
meander