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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.
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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. Lacking taste - dull - bland
diatribe
laud
insipid
poignant
2. To turn pale
blanch
cache
static
digress
3. Respect - courtesy
deference
turpitude
partition
martyr
4. Abundance - excessive amount
provincial
surfeit
homogeneous
meander
5. A place of meeting or joining - a linkup
morose
pedantic
junction
baroque
6. An outcast
criterion
garner
pariah
chronic
7. Extravagant exaggeration used as a figure of speech
diffuse
copious
hyperbole
tentative
8. To shorten - condense - or lessen in length
abridge
tedious
overture
emigrate
9. Explosive - tends to burn quickly
destitute
lucid
volatile
altruistic
10. An ability to recover from - or adjust easily
conviction
resilient
bracing
gamut
11. Determination - a state of being convinced
reprehensible
meander
conviction
saccharine
12. False - fake - not genuine
finesse
robust
incipient
spurious
13. A messenger or representative - an agent
explicit
emissary
prolific
emulate
14. Winding - twisting - full of curves
aggrandize
tortuous
eclectic
grovel
15. Boring - tiresome
intrepid
surfeit
wanton
tedious
16. Extremely bad - flagrant
incipient
meander
latent
egregious
17. Minimal - hardly sufficient
affinity
scanty
tenet
galvanize
18. Hateful - evil - vile
odious
zenith
grimace
overture
19. Careful - thought through
aesthetic
circumspect
ogle
craven
20. A principle - doctrine or belief held as so by a group
strident
tenet
dupe
stagnate
21. Connection between different groups - a close bond - an illicit sexual relationship
liaison
virulent
reciprocal
levity
22. To make evident by showing
provincial
copious
manifest
prolific
23. Beginning to be - in an early stage
vehement
explicit
incipient
eulogize
24. To defame - to slander - to blacken the character of
pretentious
caustic
vilify
corroborate
25. To place side by side
juxtapose
vestige
ogle
discerning
26. Sly - treacherous - having a gradual effect
opportunist
insidious
indigent
magnanimous
27. To eject - to banish - to expel
insidious
oust
nominal
tryst
28. To transport - to conduct - to communicate
paucity
convey
trivial
animosity
29. To blot out leaving no traces - to destroy
discount
steadfast
junction
obliterate
30. Pleasant to the taste - agreeable in feeling
corroborate
palatable
hyperbole
vehement
31. To come together as one - to fuse or unite
coalesce
benediction
finesse
replenish
32. To sparkle - to gleam - to be animated or brilliant
hubris
ogle
scintillate
pedantic
33. Workable - capable of living and growing - able to succeed
nomadic
servile
intrepid
viable
34. A trick or deceptive scheme
immutable
fluke
aesthetic
stratagem
35. To wander aimlessly
meander
expunge
scintillate
bulwark
36. To gently criticize
stymie
reprove
depreciate
efface
37. Primitive - rural - lacking city comforts
plausible
vilify
enshroud
rustic
38. To bungle - to foul up
futile
amnesty
facade
botch
39. To seize wrongfully
sardonic
resplendent
usurp
blanch
40. Skillful
prosaic
guise
indigent
deft
41. To treat with disrespect
desecrate
luminous
oligarchy
steadfast
42. Moral corruption
robust
guise
garner
depravity
43. Careless - too relaxed
resplendent
agenda
lax
abdicate
44. To gather together something for a purpose - to arrange in order
prolific
replenish
marshal
unilateral
45. To increase or enlarge
inept
tirade
augment
terse
46. Gentle - not harmful - kind
insipid
benign
faction
immutable
47. To comply passively - to give in
acquiesce
exorbitant
finesse
esoteric
48. To infer on minimal grounds - conjecture - suppose
volatile
surmise
reciprocal
hiatus
49. An opera singer - prima donna - a temperamental - conceited person
tout
manifest
diva
virulent
50. To forgive or free from blame
absolve
tedious
eccentric
diva