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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. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
perorate
cachet
apoplexy
encomium
2. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
erudite
impecunious
probity
prowess
3. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
apostasy
impervious
bathos
4. All knowing - infinite awareness
nihilism
omniscient
bandy
miasma
5. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
apogee
somnolent
sangfroid
usury
6. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
discomfit
synergy
bumptious
noisome
7. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
mendacious
slatternly
vagary
miasma
8. Wildly fanciful - absurd
bumptious
chimerical
arbiter
itinerant
9. To wish for with envy
malfeasance
opprobrious
recondite
covet
10. Coming into existence - being born
myopia
akimbo
panacea
nascent
11. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
compunction
arbiter
myopia
repartee
12. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
vicarious
ignominious
extirpate
dulcet
13. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
dilettante
simper
disquiet
histrionic
14. To make uneasy
inveterate
disquiet
wont
munificent
15. Animals
adjure
fauna
punctilious
prepossess
16. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
nepotism
iniquitous
supercilious
vicarious
17. Hard to understand or grasp
prowess
abstruse
timorous
mellifluous
18. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
besmirch
wont
rapprochement
junta
19. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
libation
penultimate
doff
20. To muse upon
onus
ruminate
brook
abstinence
21. Turmoil
malfeasance
anomie
noisome
sturm and drang
22. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
bathos
cataclysm
spelunker
parsimonious
23. Having foresight
prescient
scofflaw
alchemy
peregrination
24. Able to walk or move about
ambulatory
pallid
levee
neophyte
25. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
rout
protean
hidebound
calumny
26. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
rubric
contentious
acquit
perquisite
27. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
milieu
feckless
obsequious
privation
28. The mood or spirit of the times
aegis
zeitgeist
junta
redoubtable
29. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
exigent
scotch
cachet
salubrious
30. Dishonest - deceitful
doggerel
conflagration
mendacious
descry
31. Advancing a point of view - biased
contentious
covet
doff
tendentious
32. Shriveled - withered
matriculate
wizened
temporize
vainglorious
33. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
scotch
adjure
chicanery
mordant
34. Boastful - pompous
scofflaw
sinuous
impervious
vainglorious
35. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
decimate
irascible
cabal
gerrymander
36. To attack the integrity of something
fecund
impugn
portent
ersatz
37. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
toothsome
impervious
ignominious
chary
38. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
reprobate
enervate
recidivism
levee
39. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
ensconce
reprobate
ambulatory
mercurial
40. Something that is an essential condition of
tony
maudlin
trice
sine qua non
41. Heading - title - category
adjure
fauna
rubric
martinet
42. Bad breath
implacable
halitosis
vitriolic
elan
43. Careful - cautious - wary
facetious
chary
raffish
recalcitrant
44. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
parsimonious
machination
scotch
acquit
45. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
noisome
phlegmatic
profligate
nepotism
46. Winding - having many curves
mordant
sinuous
impecunious
nonplus
47. Truthful - honest
veracious
covet
sylvan
phantasm
48. Urgent - demands prompt action
cortege
exigent
cataclysm
libidinous
49. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
cabal
bandy
stalwart
putrefy
50. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
recidivism
wastrel
sallow
circumlocution