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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
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. A cave explorer
salubrious
spelunker
reticent
bandy
2. Fertile - productive - fruitful
omniscient
anathema
fecund
scofflaw
3. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
apoplexy
palliate
exigent
irascible
4. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
prepossess
homeopathy
sui generis
redoubtable
5. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
profligate
sycophant
striated
effete
6. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
prowess
zaftig
adumbrate
akimbo
7. To smile foolishly
simper
garrulous
ensconce
enervate
8. To give off - to conceal
calumny
secrete
penultimate
ersatz
9. Drowsy - sleepy
flagellate
somnolent
milieu
ennui
10. An excellent model - a typical example
martinet
accolade
exemplar
ancillary
11. A drunken reveler or orgy
homeopathy
oscillate
ribald
bacchanal
12. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
inchoate
recondite
desiccate
placebo
13. Full-figured - plump
prescient
insouciant
mendacious
zaftig
14. Accompanying - attending - going along with
spate
dossier
concomitant
nihilism
15. To honor - to worship - to respect
sally
venerate
sartorial
fusillade
16. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
protean
elan
irascible
ethnocentric
17. To tolerate - to put up with something
brook
cataclysm
implacable
malapropism
18. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
abrogate
effete
cataclysm
evanescent
19. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
alacrity
lassitude
vicarious
cogitate
20. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
mordant
anomie
dissipate
pallid
21. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
apoplexy
vagary
vainglorious
abstinence
22. Lending money at a high interest rate
vacuous
draconian
usury
coterie
23. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
pregnant
pluralism
gerrymander
prescient
24. Talkative
timorous
garrulous
behemoth
sui generis
25. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
sylvan
raffish
antipodal
26. Able to walk or move about
ambulatory
intransigent
sententious
elliptical
27. Merry - gleeful
brook
gainsay
prepossess
mirthful
28. Faithless - untrustworthy
gamin
capricious
perfidious
bowdlerize
29. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
belie
extirpate
scofflaw
30. Division into two often contradictory parts
evanescent
titular
dichotomy
oeuvre
31. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
abscond
mirthful
chary
accouterments
32. Turmoil
sturm and drang
exemplar
vicarious
piquant
33. Wise - shrewd
sagacious
ignominious
shibboleth
penury
34. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
oscillate
vitriolic
perorate
gird
35. Burden - blame - obligation
remuneration
recidivism
simper
onus
36. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
trice
scofflaw
chary
onerous
37. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
cortege
saturnine
supercilious
slatternly
38. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
nascent
sycophant
bandy
viscosity
39. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
apostasy
maudlin
depredate
pregnant
40. Coming into existence - being born
martinet
abrogate
nepotism
nascent
41. A re-establishment of good relations
rapprochement
itinerant
repartee
ribald
42. To make better - to ease or improve
raffish
ameliorate
viscosity
accouterments
43. To rot
putrefy
gird
sententious
somnolent
44. Facade - coating - outward appearance
enervate
omnivorous
scofflaw
veneer
45. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
imbroglio
aggrieve
elan
leitmotif
46. To invest with authority - to brace
patois
capricious
scofflaw
gird
47. Advancing a point of view - biased
temporize
anomie
ambulatory
tendentious
48. To make uneasy
chimerical
disquiet
adumbrate
ancillary
49. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
inchoate
veneer
protean
draconian
50. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
debacle
abstruse
behemoth
officious