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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
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. To wish for with envy
usury
assignation
nonplus
covet
2. To behave
nabob
contentious
fetter
comport
3. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
pluralism
ersatz
vagary
prurient
4. Honesty - uprightness
probity
zeitgeist
machination
martinet
5. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
ancillary
histrionic
prowess
impervious
6. Fearful - easily frightened
moribund
concomitant
verdant
timorous
7. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
salubrious
husbandry
dilettante
inchoate
8. Custom - habit
toothsome
insouciant
propinquity
wont
9. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
redoubtable
leitmotif
arbiter
10. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
husbandry
deleterious
palliate
rife
11. Disgraceful and dishonorable
ignominious
halitosis
diurnal
facetious
12. Animals
fauna
petulant
conflagration
nabob
13. To gesture - especially when speaking
compunction
recalcitrant
gesticulate
abrogate
14. Hardworking - busy - diligent
fauna
raffish
assiduous
salubrious
15. Deception or trickery
quiescence
zeitgeist
chicanery
somnolent
16. Bad breath
apoplexy
ribald
malapropism
halitosis
17. Lustful - lascivious
exigent
bacchanal
libidinous
dilettante
18. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
titular
sangfroid
pluralism
patina
19. To run at a steady - easy pace
sagacious
striated
anomie
lope
20. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
nirvana
itinerant
brook
vitriolic
21. Boastful - pompous
syllogism
conflagration
vainglorious
synergy
22. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
deleterious
portent
feral
pregnant
23. Coming into existence - being born
clout
adjure
nascent
determinism
24. A model or example
homeopathy
paradigm
cavil
piquant
25. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
palliate
libation
assignation
brook
26. All knowing - infinite awareness
exigent
omniscient
abstruse
calumny
27. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
rarefied
anathema
exigent
intransigent
28. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
inveterate
portent
espy
puissance
29. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
covet
philistine
impervious
maudlin
30. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
bivouac
dulcet
inveterate
penultimate
31. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
aggrieve
perspicacious
zaftig
syllogism
32. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
zeitgeist
sinuous
omniscient
33. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
profligate
flagellate
macerate
nabob
34. A judge - one who decides
cavil
leitmotif
arbiter
feckless
35. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
contentious
levee
bowdlerize
bathos
36. Squalid - a slovenly woman
cachet
wont
slatternly
ascetic
37. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
antipodal
apostasy
nonplus
evanescent
38. Burden - blame - obligation
parsimonious
timorous
largess
onus
39. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
gird
sycophant
castigate
perfunctory
40. To give off - to conceal
recalcitrant
syllogism
secrete
endemic
41. To dry out
garrulous
chicanery
desiccate
machination
42. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
titular
macerate
ensconce
fey
43. A temporary encampment
conflagration
apocryphal
insouciant
bivouac
44. Forest-like - wooded
feckless
sylvan
abrogate
accouterments
45. One who adheres strictly to rules
muckrake
aegis
martinet
bumptious
46. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
palliate
bilious
cachet
acquit
47. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
rubric
bandy
fecund
rout
48. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
bon vivant
acquit
apogee
saturnine
49. Displeasure or resentment - shade
umbrage
antipodal
vainglorious
truculent
50. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
inchoate
doff
decimate
concomitant