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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. Hardworking - busy - diligent
ribald
assiduous
cogitate
cachet
2. To bewilder - to puzzle
vicarious
omnivorous
nonplus
penultimate
3. Retract - renounce or recant
comport
synergy
vagary
forswear
4. Uncompromising - stubborn
intransigent
fecund
vacuous
gamin
5. A moment - a short period of time
fusillade
deleterious
trice
petulant
6. A system of natural healing
homeopathy
cachet
mendacious
pluralism
7. 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
diaspora
husbandry
decimate
sangfroid
8. Payment - recompense
impervious
remuneration
rout
matriculate
9. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
sangfroid
provenance
toothsome
10. Turmoil
raffish
obdurate
zephyr
sturm and drang
11. To invest with authority - to brace
gird
rubric
panacea
erudite
12. A temporary encampment
depredate
ossify
bivouac
encomium
13. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
sangfroid
profligate
cogitate
iniquitous
14. A creative work - musical composition
largess
coterie
impecunious
opus
15. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
hidebound
impervious
lope
16. Award or honor - high praise
pluralism
accolade
alacrity
puissance
17. Displeasure or resentment - shade
vagary
hoary
trice
umbrage
18. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
elan
onus
covet
viscosity
19. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
petulant
cabal
peregrination
remuneration
20. The mood or spirit of the times
feckless
puissance
zeitgeist
titular
21. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
temerity
espy
compunction
umbrage
22. Coming into existence - being born
paradigm
nascent
anomie
contentious
23. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
rarefied
apoplexy
wastrel
miasma
24. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
zeitgeist
aegis
sententious
fusillade
25. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
ensconce
facetious
philistine
26. To swing back and forth
salubrious
hidebound
venerate
oscillate
27. Fertile - productive - fruitful
cavil
accolade
intransigent
fecund
28. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
sinuous
belie
vitriolic
diaspora
29. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
toothsome
undulate
covet
30. Hot-tempered - cranky
panacea
foment
bon vivant
irascible
31. Next to last
bowdlerize
apostasy
penultimate
accolade
32. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
ambulatory
leitmotif
myopia
33. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
somnolent
levee
rapprochement
parsimonious
34. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
synergy
apostasy
vacuous
alchemy
35. Drowsy - sleepy
doff
reprobate
plebeian
somnolent
36. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
ascetic
apoplexy
juggernaut
dissipate
37. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
prescient
gainsay
pregnant
piquant
38. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
panegyric
gird
saturnine
junta
39. Full-figured - plump
diaspora
sinuous
zaftig
chimerical
40. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
fusillade
facetious
effete
doff
41. A re-establishment of good relations
rapprochement
simper
hidebound
diurnal
42. Lacking color - wan
parsimonious
capricious
pallid
synergy
43. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
paradigm
mellifluous
mendacious
determinism
44. To give off - to conceal
secrete
levee
penury
apogee
45. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
apocryphal
reticent
toothsome
sally
46. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
decimate
sycophant
exemplar
prowess
47. An inferior substitute
mercurial
ersatz
paradigm
zaftig
48. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
rout
adumbrate
opus
husbandry
49. Severe - exceedingly harsh
titular
draconian
omnivorous
prescient
50. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
placebo
scofflaw
tendentious
cavil