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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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1. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
husbandry
abeyance
cataclysm
sui generis
2. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
behemoth
maudlin
repartee
circumlocution
3. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
mordant
alacrity
anathema
recidivism
4. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
dulcet
puissance
circumlocution
extirpate
5. To enroll - most particularly in college
decimate
matriculate
bowdlerize
vacuous
6. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
surreptitious
feral
libation
acquit
7. To impede - restrain - hamper
sally
fetter
impugn
gestalt
8. To gesture - especially when speaking
diurnal
perorate
gesticulate
bivouac
9. Hard to understand or grasp
probity
surreptitious
abstruse
diurnal
10. Fertile - productive - fruitful
extirpate
fecund
punctilious
umbrage
11. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
dulcet
oscillate
histrionic
adumbrate
12. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
dossier
obsequious
abrogate
behemoth
13. A drunken reveler or orgy
stalwart
plebeian
bacchanal
bon vivant
14. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
habeas corpus
scofflaw
lassitude
depredate
15. A system of natural healing
garrulous
homeopathy
belie
impecunious
16. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
recondite
capricious
mendacious
martinet
17. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
onus
bandy
raffish
muckrake
18. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
lassitude
libation
vainglorious
19. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
munificent
putrefy
surreptitious
pregnant
20. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
libation
rapprochement
assignation
intransigent
21. Division into two often contradictory parts
panegyric
dichotomy
macerate
propinquity
22. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
endemic
dissipate
redoubtable
cachet
23. Subsidiary - subordinate
mellifluous
chimerical
ancillary
obsequious
24. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
malfeasance
palliate
prowess
philistine
25. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
largess
facetious
antipodal
fey
26. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
saturnine
tendentious
espy
temporize
27. Hardworking - busy - diligent
assiduous
apostasy
aegis
onerous
28. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
muckrake
draconian
redoubtable
sallow
29. A massive - unstoppable object
gainsay
compunction
reprobate
juggernaut
30. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
privation
verdant
temerity
perquisite
31. Hostile - aggressive - savage
disquiet
truculent
penury
implacable
32. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
bathos
apocryphal
ambulatory
spate
33. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
muckrake
toothsome
covet
portent
34. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
akimbo
probity
machination
wont
35. A moment - a short period of time
omnivorous
belie
impecunious
trice
36. A beginner - a novice
ethnocentric
garrulous
neophyte
disquiet
37. Retract - renounce or recant
desiccate
forswear
matriculate
ascetic
38. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
rubric
antipodal
vagary
libation
39. Displeasure or resentment - shade
umbrage
byzantine
portent
supercilious
40. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
fusillade
somnolent
obsequious
antipodal
41. All knowing - infinite awareness
verdant
omniscient
tendentious
apogee
42. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
cortege
alacrity
capricious
perorate
43. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
gerrymander
oeuvre
privation
alacrity
44. A cave explorer
myopia
petulant
cogitate
spelunker
45. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
ennui
habeas corpus
macerate
anathema
46. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
alacrity
profligate
apogee
bilious
47. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
capricious
sallow
assignation
insouciant
48. A model or example
fetter
paradigm
mercurial
garrulous
49. Wildly fanciful - absurd
somnolent
putrefy
chimerical
ambulatory
50. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
pluralism
peregrination
rarefied
junta