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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
paradigm
coterie
penury
2. Full-figured - plump
assignation
forswear
zaftig
scofflaw
3. Wildly fanciful - absurd
chimerical
mercurial
gamin
prevaricate
4. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
perorate
cabal
sylvan
5. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
cortege
apoplexy
mirthful
omnivorous
6. To stir up - to incite
supercilious
foment
brook
oeuvre
7. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
oscillate
dossier
covet
oeuvre
8. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
besmirch
prescient
descry
ossify
9. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
hoary
slatternly
levee
myopia
10. One who adheres strictly to rules
mellifluous
recondite
elliptical
martinet
11. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
inchoate
bowdlerize
vacuous
castigate
12. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
behemoth
adjure
temporize
ersatz
13. Fertile - productive - fruitful
fecund
reticent
pluralism
abeyance
14. Lustful - lascivious
mendacious
omniscient
libidinous
plebeian
15. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
enervate
bandy
lassitude
besmirch
16. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
rout
alchemy
ascetic
cataclysm
17. Overly sentimental
maudlin
quiescence
abscond
facetious
18. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
desiccate
perorate
evanescent
petulant
19. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
impugn
contentious
bandy
nihilism
20. Environment - surroundings
omniscient
bon vivant
garrulous
milieu
21. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
noisome
striated
stalwart
nirvana
22. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
perfidious
synergy
interregnum
akimbo
23. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
depredate
pluralism
encomium
redoubtable
24. Moving from place to place
titular
fusillade
itinerant
veneer
25. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
ersatz
leitmotif
ameliorate
26. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
abrogate
bacchanal
onerous
panegyric
27. The mood or spirit of the times
mercurial
zeitgeist
cavil
ensconce
28. Occurring during the day - happens every day
diurnal
philistine
savant
mordant
29. Nearness in place or time - kinship
patois
gerrymander
feral
propinquity
30. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
acquit
anathema
raffish
penultimate
31. Animals
adumbrate
fauna
ruminate
coterie
32. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
panegyric
milieu
deleterious
macerate
33. Common - vulgar - low class
martinet
sally
plebeian
encomium
34. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
fusillade
bon vivant
reticent
striated
35. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
circumlocution
clout
iniquitous
adumbrate
36. To gesture - especially when speaking
gesticulate
rout
chimerical
niggardly
37. A temporary encampment
bivouac
pluralism
bathos
veneer
38. To tolerate - to put up with something
maudlin
veneer
flagellate
brook
39. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
abrogate
prepossess
libation
somnolent
40. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
punctilious
machination
zephyr
veracious
41. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
penultimate
assiduous
gerrymander
supercilious
42. Heading - title - category
stalwart
bon vivant
rubric
umbrage
43. An apparition - phantom
rife
phantasm
effete
nepotism
44. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
ruminate
adumbrate
munificent
panegyric
45. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
bilious
profligate
dossier
besmirch
46. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
castigate
impugn
anomie
ennui
47. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
parsimonious
raffish
garrulous
bumptious
48. To deny - to speak or act against
apocryphal
protean
gainsay
mercurial
49. Forest-like - wooded
palliate
sylvan
hoary
rarefied
50. Deception or trickery
muckrake
chicanery
timorous
machination
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