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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. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
myopia
aegis
tendentious
hoary
2. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
somnolent
patina
cachet
alchemy
3. To tolerate - to put up with something
chary
salubrious
brook
trice
4. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
ethnocentric
doff
insouciant
vitriolic
5. Shriveled - withered
salubrious
gird
cabal
wizened
6. Careful - cautious - wary
bumptious
usury
chary
onus
7. Overly sentimental
venerate
sycophant
salubrious
maudlin
8. Able to walk or move about
juggernaut
myopia
ambulatory
mirthful
9. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
erudite
mercurial
nabob
interregnum
10. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
malfeasance
protean
tony
placebo
11. Merry - gleeful
bowdlerize
mirthful
cortege
provenance
12. To attack the integrity of something
mirthful
sylvan
impugn
perfunctory
13. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
impecunious
sallow
arbiter
dissipate
14. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
anathema
bacchanal
nascent
15. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
ascetic
bathos
peregrination
penury
16. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
redoubtable
surreptitious
largess
striated
17. To stir up - to incite
depredate
juggernaut
foment
exigent
18. To rot
panegyric
putrefy
oeuvre
patina
19. Uncompromising - stubborn
intransigent
apogee
pregnant
machination
20. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
noisome
bandy
fusillade
assignation
21. State of rest or inactivity
ersatz
apocryphal
quiescence
privation
22. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
plebeian
remuneration
syllogism
chimerical
23. Generous
munificent
perquisite
debacle
penury
24. Sweetly flowing
gainsay
wizened
martinet
mellifluous
25. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
feral
chicanery
inveterate
cortege
26. Forest-like - wooded
vagary
sententious
cavil
sylvan
27. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
inchoate
puissance
obdurate
nabob
28. Division into two often contradictory parts
comport
tendentious
dichotomy
encomium
29. Hard to understand or grasp
largess
repartee
abstruse
sangfroid
30. Boldness - rashness - audacity
cachet
cortege
temerity
mendacious
31. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
contentious
endemic
patina
cavil
32. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
tendentious
nihilism
remuneration
abrogate
33. Harmful
ennui
patois
deleterious
piquant
34. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
ossify
opus
prowess
nabob
35. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
sally
philistine
irascible
impervious
36. Heading - title - category
putrefy
bowdlerize
rubric
draconian
37. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
sine qua non
depredate
clout
nirvana
38. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
cataclysm
determinism
nascent
veneer
39. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
wastrel
sturm and drang
impecunious
savant
40. An illegal act especially by a public official
concomitant
juggernaut
malfeasance
perfunctory
41. Boastful - pompous
depredate
truculent
interregnum
vainglorious
42. To expose political misconduct
muckrake
oscillate
implacable
undulate
43. Severe - exceedingly harsh
aegis
draconian
reprobate
bathos
44. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
portent
fetter
castigate
45. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
doff
coterie
fey
opus
46. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
mellifluous
mordant
martinet
gestalt
47. Favorable to health
salubrious
intransigent
temerity
omniscient
48. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
viscosity
raffish
anomie
scotch
49. To leave quickly and secretively
sallow
bivouac
abscond
patina
50. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
surreptitious
erudite
sangfroid
chary