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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. Clear - easily understood
wistful
lucid
chronic
poignant
2. Tasteless - dull
legacy
censure
vapid
botch
3. Stationary - not changing or moving
gravity
depravity
static
morose
4. A specialized vocabulary of a group - an obscure language
relic
eccentric
jargon
hiatus
5. To refill - to supply once more
replenish
amnesty
respite
anomalous
6. A person who serves only for money - motivated by greed
mercenary
vilify
arduous
craven
7. Unselfish concern with the welfare of others
altruistic
finesse
affinity
convey
8. To bungle - to foul up
agenda
botch
liaison
meander
9. Something handed down from the past - a bequest
eulogize
emulate
cursory
legacy
10. Reverent - devout - dutiful - may at times be marked by hypocrisy
vie
pious
callous
wanton
11. Shameful wickedness - evil - depravity
grovel
destitute
turpitude
terse
12. To give notice of - to hail or greet
hiatus
jaunt
herald
finesse
13. A long and angry speech
tirade
corroborate
fledgling
affinity
14. Concerned with or appreciative of beauty
aesthetic
rebuff
temperance
surfeit
15. A good or bad emanation of force from someone or something - in Hinduism and Buddhism the force created by someone's actions to perpetuate reincarnation
karma
callous
tonic
aesthetic
16. Instructive - intended to educate
furtive
didactic
delineate
benign
17. A messenger or representative - an agent
emissary
banal
digress
verbose
18. Constant - lasting a long time
rescind
zenith
chronic
nomadic
19. To place side by side
fidelity
juxtapose
indigent
vilify
20. Mutual - interchangeable - shared
permeate
reciprocal
vivacious
osmosis
21. Reverence - respect - an expression of high regard
homage
liaison
gravity
theology
22. Brief in speech - using very few words
rustic
laconic
raucous
surmise
23. Extravagant exaggeration used as a figure of speech
travesty
hubris
relic
hyperbole
24. Emotionally moving
infamy
zenith
censure
poignant
25. To make impossible - to shut out - to bar
laconic
preclude
lax
thwart
26. Unfeeling and insensitive
callous
homogeneous
laud
wistful
27. To stare at in a disrespectful way
deference
inept
ogle
undermine
28. Marked by abundant production or offspring
dormant
prolific
altruistic
circumspect
29. An emotional purification - an emotional release
pedantic
catharsis
chastise
table
30. To dismiss to a less prominent position - to banish
nemesis
relegate
virulent
transfix
31. Unclear - vague partially hidden - hard to understand
diva
osmosis
polemic
obscure
32. A person with great enthusiasm for and commitment to a cause
zealot
abridge
dupe
moot
33. To be indecisive or inconstant - to fluctuate in opinion
robust
waver
fortuitous
nomadic
34. Hateful - evil - vile
paucity
odious
diffuse
wistful
35. To deceive - to have false illusions
catharsis
delude
incontrovertible
novel
36. Sympathy - attraction - kinship
affinity
resplendent
benediction
homogeneous
37. Ill will - active dislike
forfeit
nullify
animosity
temperance
38. To comply passively - to give in
obviate
acquiesce
genteel
elucidate
39. To show excessive affection - to be overly flattering in return for favor
candor
fawning
meander
obviate
40. To prevent from being accomplished - to frustrate - to hinder
morose
thwart
theology
advocate
41. To raise high - to glorify
wistful
bracing
aversion
exalt
42. Similar - of the same kind - uniform in nature
homogeneous
tout
wanton
arduous
43. A dividing wall - a division
partition
harbinger
zealot
obviate
44. Keenly perceptive - shrewd
copious
intrepid
discerning
penchant
45. Delicacy of workmanship - subtlety - skillful maneuvering
bracing
finesse
advocate
exalt
46. An indirect reference
guise
destitute
indigent
allusion
47. To decline - to recede
scintillate
ebb
grimace
tortuous
48. Cowardly
fledgling
faction
respite
craven
49. To soothe - to appease with concessions
placate
osmosis
laconic
criterion
50. Sluggish - laziness - indolence
sloth
pious
elucidate
stoic