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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. To swing back and forth
abstruse
oscillate
byzantine
zephyr
2. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
niggardly
circumlocution
patois
phantasm
3. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
oeuvre
abstruse
temporize
4. Having foresight
prescient
patois
gesticulate
gestalt
5. To impede - restrain - hamper
patois
fetter
miasma
perquisite
6. Boldness - rashness - audacity
leitmotif
temerity
ossify
penury
7. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
usury
extirpate
malapropism
inveterate
8. Next to last
penultimate
aegis
accolade
bathos
9. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
redoubtable
paradigm
probity
10. Lacking color - wan
pallid
vitriolic
shibboleth
trice
11. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
cabal
obdurate
dissipate
bandy
12. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
titular
implacable
undulate
byzantine
13. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
assiduous
titular
onerous
forswear
14. Slander - deliberate false statements
perorate
effete
prepossess
calumny
15. An illegal act especially by a public official
malfeasance
sui generis
oscillate
bivouac
16. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
garrulous
ancillary
patina
surreptitious
17. Drowsy - sleepy
fauna
somnolent
slatternly
zeitgeist
18. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
plebeian
salubrious
ruminate
capricious
19. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
deleterious
exemplar
sallow
20. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
depredate
belie
bivouac
21. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
philistine
doggerel
salubrious
insouciant
22. Honesty - uprightness
junta
probity
aegis
capricious
23. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
ancillary
iniquitous
privation
doff
24. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
bivouac
acquit
largess
reprobate
25. To bewilder - to puzzle
assiduous
nonplus
imbroglio
malapropism
26. Sweetly flowing
abeyance
libidinous
mellifluous
diaspora
27. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
exemplar
noisome
plebeian
fey
28. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
matriculate
cataclysm
vicarious
ruminate
29. Power - strength
bon vivant
covet
abstruse
puissance
30. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abstinence
recondite
abrogate
implacable
31. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
gesticulate
profligate
ennui
belie
32. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
vainglorious
oscillate
castigate
juggernaut
33. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
nascent
anomie
niggardly
shibboleth
34. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
arbiter
impervious
accolade
35. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
inveterate
sartorial
rife
forswear
36. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
elliptical
venerate
salubrious
miasma
37. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
dilettante
adumbrate
ethnocentric
38. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
husbandry
interregnum
diaspora
piquant
39. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
nihilism
rapprochement
saturnine
hoary
40. An expedition - wandering
moribund
comport
obdurate
peregrination
41. A beginner - a novice
aggrieve
maudlin
foment
neophyte
42. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
niggardly
pluralism
striated
depredate
43. Stubborn
pregnant
capricious
determinism
obdurate
44. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
reticent
alchemy
recalcitrant
malapropism
45. Something that is an essential condition of
sine qua non
sui generis
somnolent
doggerel
46. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
mirthful
evanescent
alacrity
zaftig
47. 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
fusillade
antipodal
diaspora
vacuous
48. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
determinism
feckless
palliate
recidivism
49. To smile foolishly
simper
temerity
peregrination
cabal
50. Truthful - honest
fecund
veracious
perspicacious
antipodal