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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. Accompanying - attending - going along with
bivouac
concomitant
mendacious
reticent
2. State of rest or inactivity
dichotomy
quiescence
irascible
lope
3. Power - strength
elliptical
zeitgeist
ignominious
puissance
4. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
sui generis
propinquity
synergy
rarefied
5. Lending money at a high interest rate
facetious
doggerel
prurient
usury
6. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
rarefied
histrionic
levee
mendacious
7. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
cavil
exigent
recalcitrant
exemplar
8. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
oeuvre
chicanery
inchoate
doff
9. To invest with authority - to brace
gird
mirthful
obdurate
onerous
10. Hot-tempered - cranky
encomium
irascible
abstruse
coterie
11. To tolerate - to put up with something
gerrymander
elliptical
brook
calumny
12. Facade - coating - outward appearance
covet
homeopathy
veneer
aggrieve
13. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
propinquity
umbrage
adjure
portent
14. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
onerous
rarefied
rife
alchemy
15. Burden - blame - obligation
ascetic
wastrel
onus
parsimonious
16. Something that is an essential condition of
doff
miasma
sine qua non
insouciant
17. A remedy that cures everything
panacea
wont
homeopathy
ascetic
18. An intimate group of people with a common interest
sui generis
maudlin
oscillate
coterie
19. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
bon vivant
rife
parsimonious
viscosity
20. Sneaky - secret
surreptitious
husbandry
timorous
juggernaut
21. Bad breath
vainglorious
mellifluous
elan
halitosis
22. To muse upon
perfidious
ruminate
facetious
discomfit
23. To put an end to
privation
omnivorous
malapropism
scotch
24. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
miasma
gerrymander
draconian
savant
25. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
stalwart
temerity
ennui
habeas corpus
26. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
flagellate
fetter
irascible
somnolent
27. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
supercilious
abscond
inveterate
usury
28. To make better - to ease or improve
slatternly
protean
ameliorate
spate
29. Urgent - demands prompt action
placebo
prowess
byzantine
exigent
30. Custom - habit
coterie
niggardly
philistine
wont
31. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
penury
alacrity
scofflaw
stalwart
32. Winding - having many curves
sinuous
disquiet
comport
pallid
33. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
aegis
deleterious
besmirch
hoary
34. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
itinerant
implacable
abstinence
perfunctory
35. Evil - unjust
iniquitous
nepotism
wizened
apocryphal
36. To honor - to worship - to respect
muckrake
vitriolic
bathos
venerate
37. Next to last
penultimate
gird
libidinous
coterie
38. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
hidebound
temporize
deleterious
nirvana
39. A file of documents - letters and records
adjure
dossier
interregnum
anathema
40. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
perfunctory
noisome
supercilious
extirpate
41. In title only
titular
niggardly
fetter
placebo
42. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
titular
juggernaut
diurnal
perfunctory
43. Forest-like - wooded
vitriolic
vainglorious
halitosis
sylvan
44. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
pallid
impervious
espy
junta
45. Payment - recompense
clout
chicanery
remuneration
moribund
46. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
pluralism
foment
oscillate
libation
47. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
libidinous
munificent
omniscient
cavil
48. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
fusillade
vainglorious
antipodal
juggernaut
49. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
timorous
titular
chary
nihilism
50. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
synergy
bumptious
capricious
officious