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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. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
rarefied
aggrieve
penury
husbandry
2. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
opus
provenance
vacuous
3. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
bon vivant
prurient
oeuvre
sturm and drang
4. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
reticent
ascetic
ambulatory
behemoth
5. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
spelunker
matriculate
maudlin
alchemy
6. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
privation
adumbrate
supercilious
sangfroid
7. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
rapprochement
reprobate
gerrymander
inveterate
8. One who adheres strictly to rules
martinet
privation
largess
gerrymander
9. To tolerate - to put up with something
recidivism
martinet
sinuous
brook
10. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
perfidious
rife
extirpate
exigent
11. Displeasure or resentment - shade
umbrage
besmirch
onerous
punctilious
12. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
patina
obdurate
calumny
oscillate
13. Fertile - productive - fruitful
simper
fecund
venerate
doggerel
14. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
perquisite
apocryphal
recondite
panacea
15. A procession - a group of attendants
privation
cortege
scofflaw
parsimonious
16. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
obdurate
ossify
dissipate
dulcet
17. A cave explorer
spelunker
gainsay
rife
determinism
18. A judge - one who decides
juggernaut
arbiter
descry
cachet
19. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
husbandry
interregnum
iniquitous
phlegmatic
20. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
vitriolic
coterie
cataclysm
obdurate
21. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
enervate
bon vivant
ossify
hidebound
22. 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
rout
elan
remuneration
23. Faithless - untrustworthy
apogee
perfidious
puissance
scotch
24. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
prowess
salubrious
viscosity
surreptitious
25. To weaken - to sap the strength
diurnal
enervate
repartee
myopia
26. Favorable to health
disquiet
reticent
rapprochement
salubrious
27. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
penury
ersatz
capricious
habeas corpus
28. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
striated
dilettante
abscond
29. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
anomie
privation
facetious
veneer
30. To swing back and forth
oscillate
castigate
prepossess
syllogism
31. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
discomfit
rubric
cogitate
piquant
32. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
sine qua non
mordant
elliptical
aggrieve
33. To smile foolishly
simper
scotch
pregnant
supercilious
34. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
gestalt
sycophant
feckless
lassitude
35. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
libidinous
nirvana
panacea
itinerant
36. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
bumptious
apocryphal
sententious
alchemy
37. To kill or destroy a large part of
gerrymander
decimate
ruminate
panacea
38. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
anomie
truculent
elliptical
profligate
39. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
umbrage
bumptious
largess
penury
40. A system of natural healing
bon vivant
junta
homeopathy
sturm and drang
41. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
vainglorious
omniscient
rout
provenance
42. Severe - exceedingly harsh
temerity
plebeian
chimerical
draconian
43. Squalid - a slovenly woman
slatternly
habeas corpus
diurnal
abrogate
44. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
nonplus
patina
probity
noisome
45. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
simper
libation
officious
savant
46. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
titular
rapprochement
anomie
determinism
47. Full-figured - plump
mendacious
tony
zaftig
comport
48. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
cavil
tendentious
intransigent
49. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
coterie
wastrel
lope
50. Winding - having many curves
determinism
sinuous
nonplus
facetious