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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. Conversational - used in informal speech
pique
levity
colloquial
stoic
2. Wise - showing judgment - cautious
zenith
caustic
judicious
intrepid
3. Deserving of blame
stoic
turpitude
reprehensible
magnanimous
4. A precursor - an indication - one that foreshadows what is coming
undermine
pious
inept
harbinger
5. One who suffers for a cause - a person who sacrifices for a principle
relic
herald
martyr
guile
6. To deduct - to disregard
heresy
gratuitous
flourish
discount
7. To soothe - to appease with concessions
lament
placate
rustic
tepid
8. Charming - sweetly engaging
winsome
paltry
prolific
buffoon
9. To praise - to applaud - to extol
circumspect
genteel
laud
elucidate
10. Biting in humor
emulate
fawning
caustic
homogeneous
11. A hiding place - something hidden in a secret place
opportunist
pretentious
cache
moot
12. Marked by abundant production or offspring
spurious
herald
vehement
prolific
13. Secret - done by stealth - sly
broach
furtive
pious
waver
14. Commanding - lordly - arrogant
imperious
efface
luminous
obviate
15. To comply passively - to give in
trite
robust
acquiesce
tepid
16. To shorten - condense - or lessen in length
nomadic
surfeit
relegate
abridge
17. To praise highly
colloquial
extol
bracing
tryst
18. Hateful - evil - vile
odious
oust
abridge
esoteric
19. A feeling of depression - uneasiness - of being unwell
pious
malaise
dormant
irreverent
20. A person who serves only for money - motivated by greed
abdicate
mercenary
abysmal
aesthetic
21. Brief - without much attention to detail
vie
odious
reprehensible
cursory
22. Useless - hopeless - without effect
terse
futile
delineate
tonic
23. To mourn - to express regret
lament
finesse
exacerbate
egregious
24. To deceive - to trick
dupe
temperance
vapid
liaison
25. Arrogantly assertive - positive about unproven ideas
dogmatic
ebb
eclectic
vapid
26. To cause to stand motionless with awe or other intense emotion
irreverent
prolific
rebuff
transfix
27. The study of God or religion
strident
coherent
theology
liaison
28. Something used as a defense - a strong protection
bulwark
tonic
broach
stymie
29. Crucial - something around which things turn
saccharine
pivotal
oligarchy
corroborate
30. Strong or fixed dislike - a feeling of repugnance
rescind
exacerbate
myriad
aversion
31. Concise - clearly expressed with a few words
resplendent
exacerbate
succinct
levity
32. The full range of something
travesty
flourish
gamut
acquiesce
33. To grow strong - to grow abundantly - to thrive or prosper - to make broad and sweeping gestures
engaging
table
depravity
flourish
34. (adj.) invigorating; (v.) to prepare
bracing
guise
plausible
catharsis
35. Boring - tiresome
bulwark
heresy
nuance
tedious
36. Extremely poisonous - malignant - full of hate
virulent
polemic
obliterate
servile
37. Extremely wretched - bottomless
docile
abysmal
precept
harbinger
38. A powerful argument to defend a thesis
banal
polemic
exalt
heresy
39. A person with great enthusiasm for and commitment to a cause
paltry
servile
zealot
deference
40. To put an end to - to squelch - to calm
quell
pariah
clemency
emulate
41. To remove from consideration
eulogize
animosity
enshroud
table
42. The highest point
plausible
amnesty
zenith
tout
43. To step down from a position of power
lament
egregious
osmosis
abdicate
44. To cover - to enclose with a dark cover
enshroud
unilateral
quintessential
austere
45. A denunciation - a biting speech
peruse
diatribe
discount
abdicate
46. To swarm - to be inundated - to become full to overflowing
teem
junction
enigma
reprehensible
47. To defame - to slander - to blacken the character of
vilify
botch
diatribe
rebuff
48. Lively - spirited
vivacious
aggrandize
vehement
marshal
49. Shameful wickedness - evil - depravity
morose
provincial
oust
turpitude
50. To make great
aggrandize
augment
thwart
dormant