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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. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
sententious
bathos
opprobrious
intransigent
2. To behave
discomfit
comport
undulate
mordant
3. To attack the integrity of something
chimerical
apocryphal
impugn
ethnocentric
4. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
saturnine
leitmotif
fauna
cortege
5. Heading - title - category
muckrake
propinquity
rubric
penury
6. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
histrionic
dissipate
rapprochement
anathema
7. A judge - one who decides
perspicacious
punctilious
arbiter
portent
8. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
recalcitrant
pallid
parsimonious
discomfit
9. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
toothsome
recidivism
petulant
gainsay
10. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
aegis
officious
sui generis
martinet
11. Moving from place to place
sallow
nirvana
itinerant
alchemy
12. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
protean
maudlin
chimerical
bathos
13. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
encomium
antipodal
reticent
14. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
scofflaw
lassitude
recalcitrant
15. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
extirpate
reprobate
undulate
somnolent
16. Covered with green plants - leafy
panacea
moribund
verdant
ancillary
17. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
wizened
gainsay
recidivism
perquisite
18. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
imbroglio
repartee
dissipate
descry
19. Animals
nepotism
fauna
alacrity
compunction
20. Lending money at a high interest rate
usury
diurnal
verdant
cataclysm
21. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
sagacious
extirpate
adjure
ruminate
22. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
foment
sui generis
exemplar
privation
23. Uncompromising - stubborn
perorate
intransigent
hoary
exemplar
24. Urgent - demands prompt action
akimbo
exigent
sallow
propinquity
25. Lacking color - wan
pallid
simper
gamin
doff
26. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
ossify
zephyr
venerate
sagacious
27. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
prurient
cataclysm
temerity
saturnine
28. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
macerate
tony
libidinous
opprobrious
29. The mood or spirit of the times
recidivism
depredate
coterie
zeitgeist
30. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
patina
nirvana
zephyr
trice
31. A beginner - a novice
supercilious
profligate
concomitant
neophyte
32. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
perfunctory
adumbrate
vagary
effete
33. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
quiescence
descry
byzantine
apocryphal
34. State of rest or inactivity
sturm and drang
covet
slatternly
quiescence
35. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
nihilism
umbrage
cortege
slatternly
36. Severe - exceedingly harsh
draconian
abstruse
probity
gainsay
37. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
nihilism
arbiter
sententious
philistine
38. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
descry
verdant
panacea
assignation
39. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
tendentious
bon vivant
puissance
cavil
40. Hot-tempered - cranky
redoubtable
savant
irascible
discomfit
41. Hardworking - busy - diligent
prepossess
assiduous
abstruse
perorate
42. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
obdurate
piquant
insouciant
ethnocentric
43. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
compunction
philistine
muckrake
perorate
44. A creative work - musical composition
discomfit
implacable
opus
pallid
45. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
clout
sturm and drang
temporize
perquisite
46. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
protean
abstinence
penultimate
noisome
47. To dry out
reticent
apogee
desiccate
cabal
48. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
moribund
inchoate
abeyance
tendentious
49. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
decimate
prescient
penury
viscosity
50. To distress - to mistreat
aggrieve
mercurial
tendentious
erudite