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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. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
apoplexy
accouterments
espy
intransigent
2. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
elliptical
hidebound
lope
flagellate
3. Advancing a point of view - biased
prevaricate
tendentious
vagary
diaspora
4. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
plebeian
mordant
evanescent
hidebound
5. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
pallid
inveterate
remuneration
apoplexy
6. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
elan
ethnocentric
prowess
cabal
7. Turmoil
sturm and drang
diaspora
sui generis
pluralism
8. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
garrulous
slatternly
phantasm
feral
9. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
savant
dissipate
cogitate
bandy
10. To make uneasy
libidinous
sycophant
habeas corpus
disquiet
11. Animals
prowess
fauna
halitosis
supercilious
12. Drowsy - sleepy
largess
somnolent
officious
puissance
13. Vulgar or indecent language
zeitgeist
ribald
circumlocution
sylvan
14. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
prescient
mercurial
exigent
vitriolic
15. Native - belonging to a specific region
zaftig
scofflaw
endemic
munificent
16. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
ascetic
imbroglio
doggerel
facetious
17. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
imbroglio
sycophant
truculent
18. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
endemic
implacable
munificent
dissipate
19. To bewilder - to puzzle
striated
nonplus
gamin
timorous
20. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
imbroglio
undulate
nabob
portent
21. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
fetter
provenance
juggernaut
diaspora
22. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
striated
prevaricate
espy
fecund
23. An excellent model - a typical example
ossify
macerate
piquant
exemplar
24. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
onerous
wont
gamin
sui generis
25. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
arbiter
compunction
nonplus
26. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
dissipate
sinuous
byzantine
obdurate
27. Squalid - a slovenly woman
nonplus
contentious
savant
slatternly
28. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
bon vivant
gird
prescient
insouciant
29. Accompanying - attending - going along with
concomitant
phlegmatic
somnolent
capricious
30. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
chary
perfunctory
nirvana
reprobate
31. Displeasure or resentment - shade
umbrage
irascible
acquit
apoplexy
32. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
undulate
bon vivant
matriculate
forswear
33. To stir up - to incite
alacrity
foment
ossify
slatternly
34. A disaster or violent breakdown
rife
abscond
debacle
intransigent
35. The act of repeating an offense
capricious
rife
recidivism
martinet
36. A file of documents - letters and records
scotch
ersatz
dossier
implacable
37. Forest-like - wooded
cogitate
ossify
fecund
sylvan
38. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
prurient
largess
lope
itinerant
39. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
depredate
bowdlerize
somnolent
lope
40. Facade - coating - outward appearance
veneer
phantasm
fey
nirvana
41. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
striated
irascible
lassitude
myopia
42. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
libation
secrete
punctilious
paradigm
43. Hostile - aggressive - savage
secrete
truculent
cavil
brook
44. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
propinquity
bon vivant
repartee
forswear
45. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
bacchanal
sylvan
prowess
sui generis
46. An apparition - phantom
ancillary
phantasm
privation
nonplus
47. The mood or spirit of the times
impecunious
maudlin
coterie
zeitgeist
48. One who adheres strictly to rules
feral
levee
martinet
sycophant
49. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
synergy
fusillade
lassitude
50. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
junta
extirpate
apostasy
phlegmatic