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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 smile foolishly
lope
simper
propinquity
bon vivant
2. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
sallow
petulant
scofflaw
3. Heading - title - category
rubric
elliptical
cavil
wont
4. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
raffish
vitriolic
bandy
dissipate
5. Uncompromising - stubborn
feral
intransigent
diurnal
apocryphal
6. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
akimbo
malfeasance
chimerical
opus
7. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
cortege
bowdlerize
insouciant
syllogism
8. To make better - to ease or improve
cortege
ameliorate
deleterious
sylvan
9. Pungent - charmingly provocative
enervate
obsequious
propinquity
piquant
10. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
depredate
nascent
shibboleth
perquisite
11. Next to last
vacuous
besmirch
accolade
penultimate
12. To distress - to mistreat
venerate
aggrieve
peregrination
neophyte
13. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
recondite
compunction
truculent
vicarious
14. To wish for with envy
covet
gesticulate
conflagration
synergy
15. To rot
juggernaut
chimerical
perorate
putrefy
16. Common - vulgar - low class
dichotomy
parsimonious
plebeian
phlegmatic
17. Protection - patronage
flagellate
encomium
aegis
onus
18. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
prowess
behemoth
opus
raffish
19. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
acquit
effete
assignation
viscosity
20. Moving from place to place
penury
itinerant
perspicacious
panacea
21. Hard to understand or grasp
abstruse
synergy
pallid
dichotomy
22. Without money - penniless
penultimate
trice
impecunious
patois
23. Boastful - pompous
vainglorious
sartorial
discomfit
extirpate
24. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
rife
cachet
tony
dulcet
25. Oval - obscure in expression
cachet
elliptical
rife
ensconce
26. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
oeuvre
sallow
adumbrate
ribald
27. An apparition - phantom
striated
phantasm
gamin
gird
28. Able to walk or move about
gamin
ambulatory
accouterments
bowdlerize
29. A dominant or recurring theme
leitmotif
puissance
zaftig
cavil
30. Wise - shrewd
concomitant
sagacious
imbroglio
juggernaut
31. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
ossify
ambulatory
patina
exigent
32. The mood or spirit of the times
sally
zeitgeist
interregnum
debacle
33. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
doggerel
peregrination
recondite
34. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
syllogism
patina
reprobate
cavil
35. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
adumbrate
stalwart
panegyric
phlegmatic
36. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
usury
malapropism
fecund
perquisite
37. Hot-tempered - cranky
exigent
irascible
lassitude
impecunious
38. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
bivouac
prowess
vacuous
hoary
39. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
antipodal
abrogate
ambulatory
garrulous
40. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
toothsome
dilettante
doff
41. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
titular
onus
neophyte
machination
42. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
wastrel
itinerant
cavil
elliptical
43. A gentle breeze
matriculate
saturnine
wastrel
zephyr
44. Full-figured - plump
prowess
matriculate
zaftig
savant
45. A re-establishment of good relations
simper
garrulous
shibboleth
rapprochement
46. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
gestalt
venerate
oscillate
apoplexy
47. A beginner - a novice
neophyte
irascible
deleterious
onus
48. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
rubric
levee
vacuous
dichotomy
49. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
irascible
vagary
chicanery
50. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
husbandry
flagellate
tendentious
myopia