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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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. A judge - one who decides
dichotomy
gerrymander
dissipate
arbiter
2. Overly sentimental
maudlin
largess
cataclysm
recidivism
3. Fearful - easily frightened
patina
abrogate
timorous
deleterious
4. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
homeopathy
assignation
raffish
fauna
5. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
aggrieve
recondite
fusillade
savant
6. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
tony
malfeasance
perorate
leitmotif
7. Native - belonging to a specific region
endemic
mordant
sententious
veneer
8. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
pregnant
philistine
apogee
noisome
9. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
tendentious
feral
profligate
prepossess
10. The act of repeating an offense
interregnum
recidivism
junta
clout
11. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
contentious
debacle
wastrel
12. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
sententious
omniscient
onerous
panegyric
13. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
adumbrate
comport
hidebound
ersatz
14. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
assiduous
gainsay
cogitate
alchemy
15. Advancing a point of view - biased
tendentious
capricious
bathos
propinquity
16. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
mordant
stalwart
omnivorous
calumny
17. A massive - unstoppable object
onus
munificent
anathema
juggernaut
18. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
milieu
accouterments
aegis
opus
19. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
pallid
savant
peregrination
20. To smile foolishly
veracious
impugn
simper
sangfroid
21. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
implacable
rarefied
opprobrious
scofflaw
22. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
wastrel
coterie
gesticulate
apoplexy
23. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
sallow
secrete
malapropism
24. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
temerity
wastrel
reprobate
25. Talkative
garrulous
toothsome
bandy
junta
26. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
castigate
hoary
desiccate
sally
27. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
decimate
redoubtable
vainglorious
28. Hardworking - busy - diligent
portent
assiduous
hoary
redoubtable
29. Favorable to health
salubrious
pregnant
nihilism
descry
30. Something that is an essential condition of
sinuous
philistine
dichotomy
sine qua non
31. Oval - obscure in expression
placebo
elliptical
rapprochement
wizened
32. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
quiescence
raffish
facetious
umbrage
33. A remedy that cures everything
flagellate
panacea
feral
pallid
34. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
ethnocentric
sallow
depredate
aegis
35. A temporary suspension of activity
abeyance
ethnocentric
impervious
extirpate
36. Wildly fanciful - absurd
scofflaw
chimerical
reprobate
muckrake
37. Honesty - uprightness
probity
timorous
bowdlerize
spelunker
38. A gentle breeze
exigent
panacea
perfunctory
zephyr
39. To gesture - especially when speaking
rarefied
parsimonious
hidebound
gesticulate
40. Deception or trickery
petulant
chicanery
itinerant
covet
41. Whim - an unpredictable action
vagary
arbiter
lope
leitmotif
42. To make uneasy
rife
cataclysm
disquiet
ethnocentric
43. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
dissipate
brook
determinism
contentious
44. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
alchemy
perspicacious
covet
synergy
45. To wish for with envy
ossify
leitmotif
gainsay
covet
46. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
prurient
miasma
nascent
lassitude
47. Generous
matriculate
usury
simper
munificent
48. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
disquiet
rapprochement
impugn
recondite
49. Harmful
gainsay
oeuvre
nihilism
deleterious
50. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
phlegmatic
recidivism
habeas corpus
veracious