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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
:
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. Hard to understand or grasp
reticent
implacable
noisome
abstruse
2. Whim - an unpredictable action
tendentious
sangfroid
vagary
phantasm
3. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
pregnant
malfeasance
portent
elliptical
4. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
junta
apocryphal
supercilious
spelunker
5. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
peregrination
plebeian
compunction
diaspora
6. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
disquiet
vitriolic
libation
vacuous
7. Harmful
ersatz
akimbo
apostasy
deleterious
8. Careful - cautious - wary
verdant
bathos
chary
malfeasance
9. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
oeuvre
repartee
penury
alacrity
10. A model or example
largess
syllogism
paradigm
diurnal
11. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
cachet
penultimate
shibboleth
adjure
12. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
elan
aggrieve
inveterate
petulant
13. Without money - penniless
sui generis
impecunious
nirvana
synergy
14. Bad breath
halitosis
mendacious
scofflaw
hoary
15. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
antipodal
concomitant
scotch
extirpate
16. Disgraceful and dishonorable
placebo
ignominious
rapprochement
abstinence
17. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
synergy
punctilious
bon vivant
diurnal
18. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
fetter
inveterate
toothsome
nihilism
19. A beginner - a novice
gesticulate
scofflaw
prepossess
neophyte
20. Slander - deliberate false statements
fecund
palliate
calumny
undulate
21. To swing back and forth
belie
tendentious
scotch
oscillate
22. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
impugn
sententious
libidinous
extirpate
23. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
cogitate
mirthful
myopia
24. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
rout
perspicacious
privation
patina
25. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
saturnine
byzantine
iniquitous
muckrake
26. Lending money at a high interest rate
accolade
usury
discomfit
synergy
27. Fawning - subservient - servile
dossier
temerity
obsequious
truculent
28. Nearness in place or time - kinship
libidinous
accouterments
trice
propinquity
29. To behave
provenance
gird
ameliorate
comport
30. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
itinerant
prepossess
penury
effete
31. Truthful - honest
veracious
accouterments
espy
privation
32. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
anomie
ennui
alchemy
akimbo
33. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
rubric
ossify
concomitant
impervious
34. To distress - to mistreat
raffish
nonplus
machination
aggrieve
35. Division into two often contradictory parts
saturnine
accouterments
espy
dichotomy
36. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
garrulous
largess
onerous
37. Urgent - demands prompt action
exigent
propinquity
gird
diurnal
38. Common - vulgar - low class
surreptitious
veneer
sallow
plebeian
39. Animals
sagacious
philistine
fauna
prowess
40. To deviate from the truth
rubric
apocryphal
prevaricate
inveterate
41. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
elan
propinquity
gesticulate
penultimate
42. A sudden outburst
habeas corpus
spate
descry
diaspora
43. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
interregnum
salubrious
anomie
reprobate
44. Fertile - productive - fruitful
gestalt
zaftig
doggerel
fecund
45. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
brook
panegyric
behemoth
usury
46. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
timorous
accouterments
cogitate
gamin
47. To enroll - most particularly in college
dichotomy
matriculate
itinerant
impervious
48. To muse upon
wont
ruminate
imbroglio
protean
49. Stingy - small in a mean way
bowdlerize
wizened
niggardly
contentious
50. To make better - to ease or improve
contentious
ameliorate
munificent
comport