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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. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
probity
anathema
sangfroid
erudite
2. An excellent model - a typical example
gainsay
exemplar
accouterments
abeyance
3. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
piquant
simper
repartee
bon vivant
4. A creative work - musical composition
slatternly
opus
homeopathy
placebo
5. A gentle breeze
zephyr
pluralism
tony
mirthful
6. Drowsy - sleepy
implacable
scotch
somnolent
nabob
7. Favorable to health
fecund
levee
salubrious
compunction
8. An apparition - phantom
remuneration
compunction
phantasm
abstruse
9. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
wastrel
cortege
cabal
sartorial
10. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
fauna
undulate
facetious
striated
11. A procession - a group of attendants
bon vivant
dilettante
pregnant
cortege
12. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
martinet
bathos
apoplexy
13. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
mirthful
shibboleth
nihilism
quiescence
14. Marked with thin lines or grooves
mirthful
striated
temerity
apocryphal
15. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
feral
wastrel
venerate
accolade
16. Lustful - lascivious
discomfit
temerity
philistine
libidinous
17. Payment - recompense
remuneration
bandy
descry
dilettante
18. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
remuneration
sagacious
cachet
juggernaut
19. Talkative
akimbo
venerate
dilettante
garrulous
20. Having foresight
chicanery
prescient
secrete
synergy
21. Shriveled - withered
fetter
pallid
wizened
cavil
22. Winding - having many curves
gerrymander
provenance
sartorial
sinuous
23. To weaken - to sap the strength
enervate
nascent
recalcitrant
remuneration
24. To give off - to conceal
dichotomy
nabob
bivouac
secrete
25. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
coterie
deleterious
impecunious
ensconce
26. To impede - restrain - hamper
exigent
ambulatory
fetter
desiccate
27. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
philistine
probity
bandy
slatternly
28. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
undulate
vacuous
niggardly
irascible
29. Occurring during the day - happens every day
trice
adumbrate
diurnal
penultimate
30. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
redoubtable
sine qua non
determinism
largess
31. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
cachet
moribund
temporize
malfeasance
32. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
recondite
recalcitrant
cabal
capricious
33. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
ethnocentric
besmirch
quiescence
inveterate
34. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
byzantine
spate
contentious
nepotism
35. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
umbrage
impervious
panacea
inveterate
36. Merry - gleeful
reticent
mirthful
belie
ameliorate
37. To rot
bacchanal
perfidious
putrefy
gainsay
38. To kill or destroy a large part of
elliptical
decimate
perspicacious
imbroglio
39. Advancing a point of view - biased
tendentious
myopia
itinerant
elan
40. Full-figured - plump
shibboleth
bowdlerize
zaftig
muckrake
41. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
striated
effete
peregrination
penury
42. To confuse - deceive
wont
discomfit
aegis
sententious
43. Disgraceful and dishonorable
mendacious
ignominious
feckless
decimate
44. To make uneasy
imbroglio
cavil
disquiet
privation
45. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
zeitgeist
sturm and drang
somnolent
recondite
46. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
dichotomy
evanescent
dulcet
husbandry
47. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
undulate
extirpate
elan
ethnocentric
48. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
redoubtable
alacrity
supercilious
sine qua non
49. Fertile - productive - fruitful
exigent
fecund
omnivorous
scofflaw
50. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
elliptical
myopia
bon vivant
libation