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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.
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. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
anomie
malfeasance
machination
reprobate
2. A creative work - musical composition
spelunker
deleterious
opus
sallow
3. To tolerate - to put up with something
hidebound
trice
brook
iniquitous
4. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
simper
ossify
abrogate
gesticulate
5. Fawning - subservient - servile
wizened
vicarious
obsequious
sartorial
6. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
elan
fusillade
belie
alacrity
7. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
doff
scofflaw
elliptical
inchoate
8. Coming into existence - being born
nascent
nabob
sui generis
cabal
9. Boldness - rashness - audacity
pregnant
acquit
temerity
gestalt
10. Division into two often contradictory parts
gesticulate
placebo
byzantine
dichotomy
11. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
desiccate
sturm and drang
gainsay
redoubtable
12. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
prevaricate
provenance
pallid
exemplar
13. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
vitriolic
concomitant
lope
insouciant
14. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
extirpate
perspicacious
husbandry
15. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
behemoth
impugn
largess
16. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
feral
quiescence
nihilism
aggrieve
17. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
perquisite
bowdlerize
quiescence
discomfit
18. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
rout
besmirch
espy
gainsay
19. Boastful - pompous
vainglorious
debacle
enervate
prevaricate
20. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
ascetic
contentious
aggrieve
probity
21. Award or honor - high praise
accolade
chimerical
raffish
prescient
22. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
forswear
vicarious
arbiter
zaftig
23. Advancing a point of view - biased
tendentious
tony
temerity
matriculate
24. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
disquiet
cavil
veneer
parsimonious
25. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
recalcitrant
nabob
dilettante
scofflaw
26. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
ambulatory
gerrymander
insouciant
munificent
27. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
sagacious
doggerel
veneer
verdant
28. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
recondite
castigate
somnolent
synergy
29. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
descry
pluralism
antipodal
ignominious
30. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
placebo
cavil
peregrination
machination
31. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
apostasy
libation
syllogism
cortege
32. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
sagacious
impecunious
sententious
timorous
33. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
circumlocution
alchemy
plebeian
libation
34. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
propinquity
mendacious
patina
extirpate
35. In title only
titular
mercurial
castigate
noisome
36. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
cataclysm
undulate
rapprochement
adjure
37. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
recalcitrant
lassitude
prescient
apocryphal
38. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
brook
vicarious
histrionic
supercilious
39. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
shibboleth
lassitude
peregrination
accouterments
40. Talkative
neophyte
garrulous
miasma
debacle
41. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
verdant
brook
sagacious
assignation
42. A re-establishment of good relations
alchemy
putrefy
trice
rapprochement
43. A cave explorer
spelunker
accolade
clout
pregnant
44. Stubborn
lope
elliptical
obdurate
flagellate
45. Forest-like - wooded
savant
sylvan
secrete
elan
46. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
nonplus
elan
reticent
47. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
parsimonious
recondite
saturnine
simper
48. Influence - a forceful blow
clout
alacrity
inveterate
fauna
49. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
reticent
compunction
brook
puissance
50. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
protean
prowess
miasma
abrogate