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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. Marked with thin lines or grooves
striated
martinet
putrefy
onus
2. To gesture - especially when speaking
mirthful
portent
gesticulate
behemoth
3. Something that is an essential condition of
comport
bacchanal
dulcet
sine qua non
4. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
recondite
castigate
reprobate
savant
5. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
pluralism
diaspora
anomie
nabob
6. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
elliptical
adumbrate
juggernaut
7. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
doggerel
machination
acquit
8. To enroll - most particularly in college
prevaricate
chimerical
decimate
matriculate
9. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
accouterments
desiccate
obsequious
iniquitous
10. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
impervious
spelunker
evanescent
cabal
11. Faithless - untrustworthy
cabal
perfidious
bilious
gird
12. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
perfidious
syllogism
noisome
munificent
13. Lustful - lascivious
perorate
temporize
libidinous
hidebound
14. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
bowdlerize
ruminate
veracious
forswear
15. To attack the integrity of something
wizened
zeitgeist
rout
impugn
16. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
scofflaw
vicarious
extirpate
histrionic
17. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
endemic
impugn
probity
ascetic
18. To deny - to speak or act against
tony
gestalt
gainsay
reprobate
19. An expedition - wandering
itinerant
toothsome
adumbrate
peregrination
20. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
antipodal
impecunious
patois
malapropism
21. Protection - patronage
aegis
histrionic
niggardly
ossify
22. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
fauna
circumlocution
petulant
pregnant
23. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
patina
striated
sangfroid
temporize
24. Honesty - uprightness
probity
dossier
abstinence
martinet
25. A disaster or violent breakdown
debacle
somnolent
aegis
lassitude
26. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
garrulous
desiccate
mordant
mellifluous
27. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
abscond
sangfroid
dissipate
depredate
28. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
pregnant
assiduous
sartorial
vicarious
29. To weaken - to sap the strength
dulcet
akimbo
enervate
discomfit
30. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
undulate
chary
bumptious
oeuvre
31. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
deleterious
vicarious
comport
portent
32. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
cavil
inchoate
machination
puissance
33. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
slatternly
fecund
stalwart
prowess
34. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
bumptious
perspicacious
puissance
juggernaut
35. To smile foolishly
flagellate
temporize
extirpate
simper
36. Occurring during the day - happens every day
parsimonious
diurnal
capricious
recalcitrant
37. Squalid - a slovenly woman
simper
panacea
slatternly
peregrination
38. To confuse - deceive
veracious
discomfit
malapropism
exigent
39. To run at a steady - easy pace
stalwart
lope
accouterments
rife
40. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
mercurial
alacrity
patina
privation
41. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
enervate
besmirch
dichotomy
gerrymander
42. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
apostasy
tendentious
pluralism
prepossess
43. Hostile - aggressive - savage
truculent
titular
akimbo
vitriolic
44. To make better - to ease or improve
gamin
rout
ameliorate
desiccate
45. To expose political misconduct
muckrake
vitriolic
imbroglio
umbrage
46. Urgent - demands prompt action
somnolent
exigent
alacrity
recidivism
47. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
fey
myopia
assiduous
48. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
byzantine
apocryphal
dulcet
profligate
49. Slander - deliberate false statements
vacuous
toothsome
calumny
milieu
50. To stir up - to incite
rubric
foment
leitmotif
myopia