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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. To prevent from being accomplished - to frustrate - to hinder
pious
elucidate
judicious
thwart
2. To praise highly
banal
extol
efface
oligarchy
3. Suave - sophisticated - polished
quixotic
allusion
garner
urbane
4. Insignificant - unimportant
extol
immaterial
incessant
depreciate
5. Insignificant - trifling
deference
incessant
nominal
poignant
6. Easily taught - submissive
guile
provincial
thwart
docile
7. A person who breaks away from the crowd - a nonconformist
genteel
bulwark
dormant
maverick
8. Disrespectful - gently or humorously mocking
imperious
irreverent
augment
lucid
9. Extremely bad - flagrant
peruse
travesty
egregious
dogmatic
10. Skillful
conviction
deft
feign
stymie
11. Boring - tiresome
tumult
pivotal
tedious
absolve
12. Easily deceived
vapid
gullible
thwart
rebuff
13. To add to - to exaggerate - garnish - ornament
dogmatic
embellish
emulate
abdicate
14. The highest point
callous
zenith
plausible
destitute
15. Careful - cautious
undermine
clemency
heresy
prudent
16. Lack of seriousness - frivolity
opaque
relic
levity
morose
17. Native - produced or living in a particular area
marshal
eulogize
tout
indigenous
18. To mourn - to express regret
lament
meander
manifest
austere
19. Excessively sweet
diatribe
tirade
foray
saccharine
20. Standard for judging (plural: criteria)
luminous
infamy
eclectic
criterion
21. Hateful - evil - vile
fortuitous
vilify
odious
latent
22. Something handed down from the past - a bequest
vilify
bracing
odious
legacy
23. To get in the way of - to hinder - to block
stymie
corroborate
incipient
turpitude
24. Unoriginal - overused - cliched - commonplace
oust
gamut
karma
trite
25. Connection between different groups - a close bond - an illicit sexual relationship
liaison
reciprocal
manifest
nominal
26. To stray from the main subject
candor
extol
theology
digress
27. To place side by side
insipid
indigent
digress
juxtapose
28. Happening by chance - lucky or fortunate
furtive
lax
gratuitous
fortuitous
29. Careless - too relaxed
precept
lax
exacting
fawning
30. Ill will - active dislike
animosity
pedantic
conviction
foray
31. Sympathy - attraction - kinship
saccharine
coherent
affinity
lament
32. Arrogantly assertive - positive about unproven ideas
dogmatic
finesse
benediction
morose
33. Sluggish - laziness - indolence
placate
sloth
pretentious
vehement
34. Primitive - rural - lacking city comforts
peruse
digress
rustic
respite
35. To raise high - to glorify
lucid
exalt
urbane
austere
36. Glowing - bright - emitting light
colloquial
travesty
luminous
harbinger
37. Careful - thought through
mercenary
circumspect
genteel
emissary
38. To stare at in a disrespectful way
ogle
odyssey
travesty
robust
39. Wise - showing judgment - cautious
harbinger
banal
homage
judicious
40. To remove from consideration
galvanize
table
exacerbate
hyperbole
41. To transport - to conduct - to communicate
dogmatic
arduous
desecrate
convey
42. Very poor - totally lacking
poignant
destitute
legacy
impotent
43. Commanding - lordly - arrogant
imperious
sloth
hubris
wanton
44. Sly - treacherous - having a gradual effect
insidious
strident
spurious
colloquial
45. To sparkle - to gleam - to be animated or brilliant
begrudge
scintillate
blithe
guise
46. To repeal - cancel - render void
benediction
exalt
nullify
embellish
47. Moral corruption
depravity
fawning
mercenary
fledgling
48. To cancel - to repeal
blanch
imperious
rescind
hiatus
49. Strong or fixed dislike - a feeling of repugnance
nullify
aversion
junction
respite
50. A person with great enthusiasm for and commitment to a cause
paltry
latent
overture
zealot