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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
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 transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
noisome
portent
bathos
irascible
2. Drowsy - sleepy
prowess
panacea
somnolent
vacuous
3. Occurring during the day - happens every day
alacrity
determinism
diurnal
striated
4. To behave
assiduous
comport
chicanery
doggerel
5. A re-establishment of good relations
officious
plebeian
rapprochement
titular
6. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
akimbo
accouterments
acquit
circumlocution
7. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
noisome
martinet
prurient
fusillade
8. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
foment
accouterments
puissance
hoary
9. Squalid - a slovenly woman
prepossess
libation
slatternly
repartee
10. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
tony
obdurate
martinet
dulcet
11. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
ossify
secrete
behemoth
neophyte
12. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
evanescent
fey
itinerant
abeyance
13. Custom - habit
usury
facetious
wont
habeas corpus
14. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
redoubtable
clout
vacuous
husbandry
15. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
acquit
repartee
alacrity
leitmotif
16. Without money - penniless
impecunious
cogitate
oscillate
oeuvre
17. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
assignation
bacchanal
homeopathy
impervious
18. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
encomium
peregrination
hidebound
machination
19. All knowing - infinite awareness
omniscient
prurient
scotch
debacle
20. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
cachet
bumptious
hoary
exemplar
21. Retract - renounce or recant
puissance
forswear
tendentious
elan
22. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
bandy
opprobrious
ancillary
depredate
23. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
veneer
irascible
officious
disquiet
24. To bewilder - to puzzle
shibboleth
nonplus
rarefied
paradigm
25. Uncompromising - stubborn
simper
intransigent
interregnum
debacle
26. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
fauna
itinerant
ribald
27. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
oscillate
antipodal
libidinous
omnivorous
28. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
zephyr
palliate
penury
chicanery
29. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
ethnocentric
muckrake
inchoate
30. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
byzantine
toothsome
prowess
histrionic
31. 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
diaspora
parsimonious
accolade
doggerel
32. To make better - to ease or improve
brook
niggardly
ameliorate
remuneration
33. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
junta
munificent
rarefied
provenance
34. Covered with green plants - leafy
junta
placebo
spelunker
verdant
35. Talkative
peregrination
garrulous
portent
bivouac
36. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
draconian
acquit
hoary
junta
37. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
gerrymander
nihilism
inchoate
sine qua non
38. Shriveled - withered
protean
wizened
punctilious
savant
39. Lustful - lascivious
assignation
paradigm
libidinous
homeopathy
40. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
sangfroid
libation
provenance
oscillate
41. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
coterie
adjure
panegyric
castigate
42. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
lassitude
bacchanal
temporize
spate
43. Division into two often contradictory parts
rarefied
imbroglio
dichotomy
exigent
44. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
mordant
provenance
obdurate
itinerant
45. Environment - surroundings
gestalt
onerous
fecund
milieu
46. Something that is an essential condition of
hoary
sine qua non
pallid
capricious
47. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
elliptical
decimate
ascetic
exigent
48. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
nirvana
enervate
gamin
simper
49. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
spelunker
adumbrate
gerrymander
temerity
50. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
prowess
neophyte
wizened
vacuous