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SAT Word Power Harder
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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. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
nepotism
habeas corpus
bowdlerize
bandy
2. Lustful - lascivious
redoubtable
ethnocentric
libidinous
onus
3. To distress - to mistreat
determinism
zaftig
chicanery
aggrieve
4. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
hidebound
exigent
dilettante
vainglorious
5. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
acquit
onus
putrefy
wastrel
6. Moving from place to place
evanescent
bowdlerize
itinerant
repartee
7. Fearful - easily frightened
timorous
remuneration
endemic
habeas corpus
8. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
onus
wont
garrulous
supercilious
9. To make better - to ease or improve
chary
gerrymander
sinuous
ameliorate
10. To weaken - to sap the strength
philistine
maudlin
enervate
alchemy
11. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
mercurial
slatternly
antipodal
aggrieve
12. To attack the integrity of something
fey
impugn
accouterments
ameliorate
13. Sneaky - secret
surreptitious
concomitant
erudite
gestalt
14. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
brook
bon vivant
sui generis
opprobrious
15. To expose political misconduct
muckrake
temerity
zaftig
supercilious
16. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
mirthful
besmirch
extirpate
apoplexy
17. Oval - obscure in expression
elliptical
mordant
histrionic
ruminate
18. The act of repeating an offense
sententious
recidivism
sangfroid
rife
19. Urgent - demands prompt action
anathema
exigent
ersatz
prescient
20. Retract - renounce or recant
opprobrious
miasma
redoubtable
forswear
21. To wish for with envy
truculent
covet
gird
foment
22. Full-figured - plump
acquit
malfeasance
zaftig
ancillary
23. Squalid - a slovenly woman
rarefied
nabob
slatternly
mendacious
24. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
cachet
onus
effete
25. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
phantasm
stalwart
clout
malapropism
26. Forest-like - wooded
dissipate
sylvan
miasma
enervate
27. Hot-tempered - cranky
cabal
homeopathy
irascible
cogitate
28. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
obsequious
bon vivant
raffish
belie
29. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
ignominious
doff
exemplar
concomitant
30. Fertile - productive - fruitful
imbroglio
vicarious
impecunious
fecund
31. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
adjure
timorous
abstinence
spelunker
32. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
moribund
striated
obsequious
cabal
33. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
descry
philistine
habeas corpus
assignation
34. Generous
nihilism
bathos
munificent
prescient
35. A drunken reveler or orgy
omniscient
encomium
erudite
bacchanal
36. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
akimbo
prurient
stalwart
cachet
37. A disaster or violent breakdown
raffish
debacle
elliptical
lassitude
38. To dry out
assiduous
encomium
desiccate
deleterious
39. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
sycophant
aggrieve
belie
coterie
40. To deviate from the truth
macerate
prevaricate
recidivism
libidinous
41. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
anomie
sturm and drang
ersatz
42. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
nonplus
inveterate
ennui
elan
43. A beginner - a novice
ethnocentric
castigate
neophyte
rubric
44. Common - vulgar - low class
officious
plebeian
hoary
assignation
45. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
ameliorate
omniscient
salubrious
46. Next to last
penultimate
adjure
apocryphal
malapropism
47. One who adheres strictly to rules
martinet
mirthful
zaftig
onerous
48. Hardworking - busy - diligent
alchemy
vacuous
assiduous
fecund
49. To run at a steady - easy pace
conflagration
acquit
lope
impecunious
50. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
ennui
privation
cogitate
enervate