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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.
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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 small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
miasma
rarefied
discomfit
2. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
bacchanal
insouciant
erudite
adumbrate
3. A moment - a short period of time
remuneration
fauna
trice
lope
4. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
habeas corpus
vicarious
simper
apoplexy
5. A sudden outburst
spate
abrogate
slatternly
panacea
6. Hardworking - busy - diligent
puissance
dichotomy
assiduous
rife
7. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
wastrel
somnolent
lassitude
dilettante
8. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
imbroglio
contentious
vagary
enervate
9. To invest with authority - to brace
abrogate
supercilious
gird
oscillate
10. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
alchemy
recondite
philistine
bumptious
11. Lending money at a high interest rate
besmirch
perquisite
usury
temerity
12. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
capricious
enervate
ignominious
facetious
13. State of rest or inactivity
apocryphal
umbrage
ignominious
quiescence
14. Boastful - pompous
recalcitrant
phantasm
iniquitous
vainglorious
15. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
provenance
vagary
bilious
16. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
doff
sallow
gestalt
17. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
decimate
zeitgeist
wont
repartee
18. A system of natural healing
homeopathy
zephyr
garrulous
parsimonious
19. Extreme poverty
pluralism
penury
concomitant
calumny
20. To dry out
conflagration
desiccate
perfidious
gerrymander
21. To smile foolishly
sententious
piquant
simper
remuneration
22. Native - belonging to a specific region
truculent
portent
inveterate
endemic
23. Empty - lacking intelligence
malfeasance
penultimate
insouciant
vacuous
24. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
espy
feral
ameliorate
spate
25. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
accouterments
itinerant
libidinous
largess
26. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
fauna
noisome
paradigm
alacrity
27. To rot
putrefy
sylvan
belie
nihilism
28. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
contentious
abstruse
feral
somnolent
29. Occurring during the day - happens every day
spate
sartorial
apogee
diurnal
30. To give off - to conceal
munificent
secrete
facetious
gird
31. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
pallid
sinuous
espy
32. Stubborn
oscillate
irascible
obdurate
draconian
33. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
prevaricate
depredate
verdant
34. Influence - a forceful blow
apogee
milieu
plebeian
clout
35. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
rarefied
habeas corpus
perfidious
elan
36. A drunken reveler or orgy
forswear
mordant
ensconce
bacchanal
37. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
hoary
enervate
chimerical
sally
38. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
concomitant
nonplus
assignation
punctilious
39. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
niggardly
matriculate
panegyric
rubric
40. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
mercurial
patina
paradigm
41. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
zeitgeist
descry
feckless
cavil
42. Turmoil
redoubtable
bathos
bandy
sturm and drang
43. To run counter to - to show something as false
repartee
libidinous
calumny
belie
44. Harmful
prepossess
scotch
deleterious
tendentious
45. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
aggrieve
brook
moribund
feckless
46. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
vitriolic
sally
nepotism
ruminate
47. To make better - to ease or improve
bivouac
oeuvre
rout
ameliorate
48. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
provenance
husbandry
alchemy
zeitgeist
49. Fearful - easily frightened
timorous
concomitant
irascible
imbroglio
50. Retract - renounce or recant
sangfroid
opprobrious
forswear
opus