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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. Uncompromising - stubborn
peregrination
intransigent
quiescence
determinism
2. Occurring during the day - happens every day
putrefy
diurnal
truculent
dossier
3. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
vainglorious
rife
ancillary
rarefied
4. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
concomitant
fecund
habeas corpus
malapropism
5. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
toothsome
libation
temporize
depredate
6. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
nirvana
impecunious
habeas corpus
besmirch
7. A model or example
penury
paradigm
alchemy
placebo
8. The act of repeating an offense
recidivism
bivouac
reprobate
homeopathy
9. A fake medication
reprobate
placebo
nonplus
forswear
10. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
bivouac
profligate
zephyr
usury
11. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
ossify
paradigm
elliptical
12. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
libation
compunction
chicanery
malfeasance
13. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
behemoth
abeyance
temerity
dilettante
14. Careful - cautious - wary
vainglorious
phantasm
veracious
chary
15. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
hidebound
probity
habeas corpus
perspicacious
16. Generous
martinet
opprobrious
draconian
munificent
17. State of rest or inactivity
homeopathy
quiescence
opus
foment
18. Burden - blame - obligation
titular
nabob
onus
abstinence
19. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
perfunctory
feckless
abstinence
alchemy
20. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
acquit
oscillate
dulcet
diaspora
21. Next to last
sinuous
penultimate
mercurial
malapropism
22. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
slatternly
feral
probity
abscond
23. Winding - having many curves
prepossess
supercilious
circumlocution
sinuous
24. To deviate from the truth
sturm and drang
prevaricate
impugn
officious
25. To distress - to mistreat
opprobrious
perorate
nonplus
aggrieve
26. Something that is an essential condition of
mercurial
levee
sine qua non
vainglorious
27. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
punctilious
bumptious
viscosity
itinerant
28. Whim - an unpredictable action
rubric
wastrel
obdurate
vagary
29. Lending money at a high interest rate
nonplus
usury
aggrieve
tendentious
30. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
accolade
covet
saturnine
31. A dominant or recurring theme
leitmotif
diaspora
garrulous
fetter
32. To attack the integrity of something
itinerant
wont
dulcet
impugn
33. A moment - a short period of time
oscillate
coterie
trice
rife
34. A system of natural healing
cortege
homeopathy
simper
cabal
35. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
slatternly
ossify
sycophant
acquit
36. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
putrefy
sallow
chary
gerrymander
37. To tolerate - to put up with something
profligate
brook
officious
implacable
38. To smile foolishly
comport
bumptious
exemplar
simper
39. Payment - recompense
sui generis
reprobate
remuneration
mercurial
40. To leave quickly and secretively
patina
habeas corpus
mellifluous
abscond
41. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
milieu
palliate
elan
circumlocution
42. Fearful - easily frightened
compunction
desiccate
timorous
calumny
43. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
forswear
gainsay
bathos
wastrel
44. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
dilettante
obdurate
ethnocentric
45. Influence - a forceful blow
clout
itinerant
officious
quiescence
46. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
adumbrate
gamin
debacle
ascetic
47. Advancing a point of view - biased
recalcitrant
perquisite
cavil
tendentious
48. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
officious
hoary
gird
cogitate
49. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
scotch
descry
contentious
synergy
50. An illegal act especially by a public official
ennui
malfeasance
impecunious
diurnal