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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. Oval - obscure in expression
impervious
putrefy
elliptical
interregnum
2. Accompanying - attending - going along with
conflagration
husbandry
concomitant
coterie
3. Dishonest - deceitful
slatternly
vitriolic
anomie
mendacious
4. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
somnolent
quiescence
rarefied
5. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
venerate
gird
covet
inveterate
6. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
truculent
prowess
slatternly
7. Deception or trickery
wastrel
bacchanal
brook
chicanery
8. Shriveled - withered
doggerel
abscond
scotch
wizened
9. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
synergy
phlegmatic
opprobrious
macerate
10. Honesty - uprightness
sally
probity
verdant
libation
11. Disgraceful and dishonorable
niggardly
ignominious
striated
fetter
12. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
phlegmatic
byzantine
remuneration
ignominious
13. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
perfunctory
cabal
sagacious
descry
14. To leave quickly and secretively
doggerel
myopia
abscond
compunction
15. A temporary encampment
toothsome
aggrieve
bivouac
oscillate
16. A re-establishment of good relations
piquant
umbrage
rapprochement
ambulatory
17. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malapropism
acquit
discomfit
malfeasance
18. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
nepotism
garrulous
implacable
sangfroid
19. Custom - habit
myopia
ersatz
wont
implacable
20. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
perquisite
compunction
capricious
assignation
21. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
fetter
irascible
portent
lope
22. Whim - an unpredictable action
noisome
vagary
myopia
disquiet
23. Award or honor - high praise
abstruse
ascetic
nepotism
accolade
24. A procession - a group of attendants
bon vivant
cortege
diurnal
sallow
25. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
ethnocentric
saturnine
vainglorious
diaspora
26. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
dulcet
debacle
ersatz
insouciant
27. To weaken - to sap the strength
synergy
enervate
saturnine
syllogism
28. To deny - to speak or act against
interregnum
gainsay
puissance
maudlin
29. Careful - cautious - wary
chary
recalcitrant
elliptical
patina
30. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
savant
dilettante
sylvan
rout
31. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
malfeasance
obdurate
ancillary
32. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
temporize
perquisite
gesticulate
mordant
33. One who adheres strictly to rules
matriculate
flagellate
martinet
inveterate
34. Evil - unjust
scotch
iniquitous
ribald
abstruse
35. To behave
inchoate
comport
determinism
propinquity
36. An expedition - wandering
redoubtable
peregrination
surreptitious
depredate
37. Turmoil
sturm and drang
shibboleth
nepotism
determinism
38. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
sallow
vacuous
perquisite
saturnine
39. To run counter to - to show something as false
elan
libidinous
belie
obsequious
40. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
acquit
enervate
abeyance
remuneration
41. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
spate
chicanery
protean
nabob
42. A moment - a short period of time
desiccate
itinerant
trice
somnolent
43. To gesture - especially when speaking
gesticulate
somnolent
bon vivant
protean
44. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
abeyance
interregnum
cogitate
paradigm
45. Hostile - aggressive - savage
munificent
contentious
temporize
truculent
46. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
assiduous
viscosity
pluralism
ameliorate
47. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
prescient
macerate
panacea
synergy
48. To confuse - deceive
cavil
punctilious
discomfit
probity
49. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
neophyte
inchoate
palliate
doggerel
50. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
mercurial
omnivorous
abstinence
ancillary