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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. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
conflagration
cabal
lope
adjure
2. Payment - recompense
patois
toothsome
lope
remuneration
3. To muse upon
interregnum
apostasy
ruminate
levee
4. To enroll - most particularly in college
matriculate
assiduous
circumlocution
elan
5. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
pluralism
macerate
syllogism
apocryphal
6. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
neophyte
profligate
umbrage
temporize
7. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
abscond
impervious
myopia
sine qua non
8. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
neophyte
perspicacious
sinuous
obdurate
9. Faithless - untrustworthy
recalcitrant
prevaricate
clout
perfidious
10. Slander - deliberate false statements
undulate
espy
prevaricate
calumny
11. Environment - surroundings
milieu
ethnocentric
depredate
vagary
12. Sneaky - secret
bandy
surreptitious
striated
propinquity
13. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
sartorial
malapropism
nascent
tendentious
14. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
puissance
lassitude
ameliorate
omniscient
15. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
doggerel
propinquity
doff
sangfroid
16. A creative work - musical composition
stalwart
sallow
opus
lope
17. Hostile - aggressive - savage
paradigm
truculent
ascetic
veracious
18. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
alacrity
iniquitous
neophyte
19. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
aegis
somnolent
cortege
prurient
20. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
wont
sturm and drang
usury
ossify
21. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
milieu
raffish
enervate
doff
22. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
adumbrate
covet
omnivorous
scofflaw
23. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
descry
venerate
abstinence
oeuvre
24. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
debacle
onerous
erudite
anomie
25. An apparition - phantom
anathema
verdant
fey
phantasm
26. Retract - renounce or recant
protean
forswear
abscond
contentious
27. Evil - unjust
perorate
iniquitous
fauna
gird
28. Burden - blame - obligation
doff
onerous
onus
sartorial
29. A fake medication
placebo
deleterious
libidinous
salubrious
30. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
coterie
descry
omniscient
cataclysm
31. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
puissance
stalwart
slatternly
miasma
32. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
ennui
ethnocentric
sinuous
bandy
33. To weaken - to sap the strength
phlegmatic
perfidious
sententious
enervate
34. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
portent
titular
sallow
peregrination
35. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
syllogism
perfunctory
ameliorate
accouterments
36. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
hoary
sally
cataclysm
desiccate
37. Influence - a forceful blow
perfidious
vainglorious
rapprochement
clout
38. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
byzantine
macerate
repartee
circumlocution
39. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
vicarious
accouterments
bowdlerize
juggernaut
40. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
ersatz
officious
accolade
wastrel
41. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
libidinous
wont
tendentious
rout
42. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
accouterments
panegyric
erudite
puissance
43. Turmoil
perfidious
interregnum
secrete
sturm and drang
44. A temporary suspension of activity
parsimonious
bumptious
temerity
abeyance
45. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
martinet
foment
cabal
behemoth
46. Coming into existence - being born
syllogism
facetious
nascent
mellifluous
47. A procession - a group of attendants
pluralism
espy
niggardly
cortege
48. To run at a steady - easy pace
munificent
repartee
lope
matriculate
49. To behave
temporize
comport
flagellate
wizened
50. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
ethnocentric
disquiet
vicarious
perquisite