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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 secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
anomie
chary
putrefy
assignation
2. A judge - one who decides
juggernaut
arbiter
raffish
dissipate
3. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
dichotomy
bowdlerize
elan
encomium
4. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
akimbo
capricious
sine qua non
noisome
5. To muse upon
wont
nepotism
ruminate
noisome
6. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
sui generis
redoubtable
striated
abstinence
7. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
wastrel
antipodal
cortege
homeopathy
8. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
myopia
rarefied
clout
gainsay
9. Covered with green plants - leafy
compunction
verdant
raffish
zaftig
10. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
temerity
wont
obsequious
sally
11. Shriveled - withered
wizened
opus
intransigent
punctilious
12. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
propinquity
hoary
capricious
sartorial
13. 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
impugn
diaspora
calumny
tony
14. Animals
fauna
simper
endemic
probity
15. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
byzantine
gird
ennui
obsequious
16. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
ambulatory
dossier
tendentious
17. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
reprobate
recidivism
provenance
doggerel
18. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
oeuvre
sagacious
recalcitrant
phantasm
19. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
fecund
palliate
adumbrate
sine qua non
20. To distress - to mistreat
ribald
aggrieve
vicarious
venerate
21. Empty - lacking intelligence
reticent
privation
antipodal
vacuous
22. Uncompromising - stubborn
plebeian
intransigent
phantasm
accolade
23. A wealthy - influential person
titular
fey
nabob
moribund
24. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
ribald
prescient
alchemy
wizened
25. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
privation
chicanery
patina
somnolent
26. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
depredate
bilious
rapprochement
syllogism
27. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
dichotomy
diurnal
bacchanal
evanescent
28. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
oeuvre
wizened
penury
29. Influence - a forceful blow
leitmotif
clout
profligate
imbroglio
30. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
endemic
zaftig
doff
assiduous
31. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
nonplus
bilious
perorate
ersatz
32. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
macerate
ennui
prepossess
33. Division into two often contradictory parts
fey
dichotomy
forswear
perorate
34. Relating to dress or fashion
ensconce
diaspora
myopia
sartorial
35. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
hoary
bathos
ensconce
discomfit
36. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
sententious
husbandry
wont
temporize
37. To gesture - especially when speaking
byzantine
titular
gesticulate
circumlocution
38. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
lassitude
hidebound
rubric
depredate
39. Marked with thin lines or grooves
elliptical
abscond
striated
milieu
40. Truthful - honest
veracious
sallow
flagellate
opus
41. To bewilder - to puzzle
profligate
usury
bowdlerize
nonplus
42. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
temporize
nihilism
cogitate
putrefy
43. Squalid - a slovenly woman
undulate
abstinence
slatternly
arbiter
44. Wildly fanciful - absurd
chimerical
assignation
raffish
paradigm
45. Common - vulgar - low class
depredate
plebeian
surreptitious
simper
46. One who adheres strictly to rules
ancillary
martinet
elliptical
redoubtable
47. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
prowess
fey
conflagration
officious
48. Custom - habit
wont
dilettante
aegis
sylvan
49. To make uneasy
histrionic
elliptical
comport
disquiet
50. Talkative
apoplexy
recalcitrant
matriculate
garrulous