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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
punctilious
noisome
apocryphal
capricious
2. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
prepossess
garrulous
ethnocentric
encomium
3. Shriveled - withered
iniquitous
striated
toothsome
wizened
4. Influence - a forceful blow
gesticulate
accolade
hoary
clout
5. Forest-like - wooded
chicanery
maudlin
wizened
sylvan
6. A file of documents - letters and records
bumptious
dossier
gird
debacle
7. A re-establishment of good relations
tendentious
rapprochement
apocryphal
truculent
8. A massive - unstoppable object
omniscient
nihilism
juggernaut
abscond
9. Stingy
contentious
oscillate
penury
parsimonious
10. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
bumptious
patois
redoubtable
enervate
11. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
ribald
extirpate
feckless
pregnant
12. To gesture - especially when speaking
assiduous
somnolent
extirpate
gesticulate
13. Fawning - subservient - servile
ethnocentric
obsequious
prepossess
imbroglio
14. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
panegyric
sally
ambulatory
gestalt
15. A eulogy or expression of high praise
castigate
chicanery
encomium
cavil
16. Severe - exceedingly harsh
savant
prepossess
histrionic
draconian
17. Displeasure or resentment - shade
umbrage
doggerel
probity
feral
18. A creative work - musical composition
opus
gesticulate
usury
clout
19. Merry - gleeful
prurient
mirthful
encomium
vacuous
20. A temporary suspension of activity
abstinence
abeyance
munificent
gerrymander
21. Extreme poverty
mercurial
endemic
penury
officious
22. Squalid - a slovenly woman
sententious
effete
surreptitious
slatternly
23. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
mendacious
philistine
sallow
lassitude
24. Drowsy - sleepy
cabal
shibboleth
bivouac
somnolent
25. To wish for with envy
tendentious
zeitgeist
onus
covet
26. An inferior substitute
secrete
ersatz
perspicacious
stalwart
27. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
somnolent
gamin
anathema
covet
28. To run counter to - to show something as false
bathos
portent
parsimonious
belie
29. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
prurient
sycophant
cataclysm
shibboleth
30. Winding - having many curves
prevaricate
puissance
sinuous
doff
31. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
oscillate
dilettante
pallid
cortege
32. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
miasma
deleterious
cortege
mellifluous
33. Fearful - easily frightened
fauna
abeyance
simper
timorous
34. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
cavil
anomie
mirthful
gerrymander
35. To stir up - to incite
wizened
juggernaut
foment
salubrious
36. Relating to dress or fashion
sylvan
myopia
sartorial
nepotism
37. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
levee
encomium
lassitude
vitriolic
38. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
obsequious
apostasy
diurnal
patois
39. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
placebo
saturnine
rapprochement
sangfroid
40. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
impervious
cachet
sturm and drang
abstruse
41. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
patois
vacuous
wont
42. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
doff
striated
usury
arbiter
43. A remedy that cures everything
machination
panacea
penultimate
synergy
44. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
ignominious
rubric
besmirch
vainglorious
45. To deviate from the truth
prevaricate
rout
libidinous
castigate
46. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
piquant
moribund
contentious
rife
47. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
halitosis
impugn
omnivorous
cavil
48. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
gerrymander
sinuous
sangfroid
omnivorous
49. To muse upon
ancillary
fauna
flagellate
ruminate
50. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
dulcet
palliate
zaftig
ameliorate
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