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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. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
rout
sangfroid
wizened
striated
2. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
largess
scofflaw
diaspora
3. Careful - cautious - wary
garrulous
aggrieve
encomium
chary
4. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
petulant
reprobate
inveterate
sallow
5. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
dossier
nepotism
bivouac
doff
6. To tolerate - to put up with something
remuneration
brook
sangfroid
cavil
7. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
dulcet
miasma
assignation
gesticulate
8. Without money - penniless
impecunious
evanescent
covet
prurient
9. Honesty - uprightness
stalwart
husbandry
exemplar
probity
10. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
dossier
muckrake
cataclysm
officious
11. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
salubrious
implacable
oeuvre
insouciant
12. Moving from place to place
interregnum
cabal
anomie
itinerant
13. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
vainglorious
vitriolic
perfunctory
viscosity
14. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
belie
stalwart
usury
besmirch
15. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
sui generis
ersatz
facetious
apostasy
16. To deviate from the truth
nabob
implacable
patois
prevaricate
17. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
viscosity
adumbrate
patois
perspicacious
18. A beginner - a novice
ennui
ribald
neophyte
assignation
19. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
portent
foment
omniscient
raffish
20. Fertile - productive - fruitful
bon vivant
opprobrious
fecund
concomitant
21. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
sycophant
secrete
accouterments
ascetic
22. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
syllogism
levee
perquisite
ensconce
23. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
reprobate
neophyte
verdant
noisome
24. The mood or spirit of the times
zeitgeist
toothsome
cortege
recidivism
25. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
gesticulate
extirpate
secrete
diurnal
26. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
bilious
punctilious
perquisite
dossier
27. Sweetly flowing
accolade
oscillate
hoary
mellifluous
28. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
perfunctory
repartee
compunction
29. Whim - an unpredictable action
machination
behemoth
elan
vagary
30. Environment - surroundings
milieu
homeopathy
dissipate
junta
31. One who adheres strictly to rules
martinet
chary
bivouac
nihilism
32. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
prepossess
fauna
wont
33. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
byzantine
panegyric
bon vivant
adjure
34. Advancing a point of view - biased
profligate
secrete
tendentious
nihilism
35. Harmful
paradigm
deleterious
quiescence
dossier
36. A model or example
gesticulate
paradigm
endemic
gestalt
37. Hardworking - busy - diligent
macerate
implacable
vagary
assiduous
38. In title only
iniquitous
encomium
profligate
titular
39. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
akimbo
omnivorous
bon vivant
adumbrate
40. Deception or trickery
chicanery
alacrity
puissance
neophyte
41. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
plebeian
syllogism
exigent
effete
42. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
alacrity
chicanery
bivouac
43. The act of repeating an offense
spate
omniscient
recidivism
zeitgeist
44. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
vainglorious
inveterate
zephyr
gainsay
45. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
impervious
prowess
shibboleth
raffish
46. Award or honor - high praise
abeyance
accolade
elan
penultimate
47. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
umbrage
inveterate
ancillary
apocryphal
48. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
decimate
reticent
bivouac
perfunctory
49. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
vainglorious
perspicacious
mercurial
doggerel
50. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
castigate
behemoth
somnolent
insouciant
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