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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
halitosis
sally
bivouac
pregnant
2. To invest with authority - to brace
belie
sally
gird
bon vivant
3. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
libation
adumbrate
timorous
4. A fake medication
placebo
scofflaw
apostasy
abstinence
5. Dishonest - deceitful
somnolent
concomitant
fetter
mendacious
6. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
ascetic
diurnal
ameliorate
descry
7. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
gird
akimbo
parsimonious
dissipate
8. Evil - unjust
bon vivant
besmirch
sally
iniquitous
9. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
circumlocution
scofflaw
mordant
dilettante
10. Squalid - a slovenly woman
vacuous
insouciant
fusillade
slatternly
11. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
usury
miasma
cavil
paradigm
12. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
prepossess
putrefy
recidivism
macerate
13. Winding - having many curves
enervate
chimerical
effete
sinuous
14. Drowsy - sleepy
niggardly
somnolent
gesticulate
veneer
15. A file of documents - letters and records
dissipate
dossier
sinuous
homeopathy
16. Something that is an essential condition of
sine qua non
privation
antipodal
ensconce
17. To stir up - to incite
libation
anomie
foment
apocryphal
18. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
vitriolic
endemic
spate
brook
19. To smile foolishly
stalwart
brook
simper
ignominious
20. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
depredate
elan
punctilious
recondite
21. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
stalwart
impervious
byzantine
exemplar
22. A sudden outburst
toothsome
inveterate
spate
erudite
23. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
decimate
savant
capricious
nepotism
24. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
pallid
gamin
scofflaw
rarefied
25. In title only
obdurate
panegyric
titular
effete
26. Lustful - lascivious
irascible
libidinous
milieu
sturm and drang
27. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
vagary
miasma
nirvana
pallid
28. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
tony
interregnum
prurient
malfeasance
29. Power - strength
oeuvre
puissance
ignominious
dilettante
30. A drunken reveler or orgy
ersatz
bacchanal
portent
penultimate
31. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
cabal
palliate
niggardly
dulcet
32. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
piquant
doggerel
inveterate
panacea
33. To make uneasy
inchoate
secrete
disquiet
veracious
34. Talkative
milieu
garrulous
onus
capricious
35. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
perorate
habeas corpus
cortege
temporize
36. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
gerrymander
gird
putrefy
phantasm
37. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
apogee
erudite
besmirch
gird
38. Fearful - easily frightened
shibboleth
bowdlerize
timorous
piquant
39. Protection - patronage
aegis
debacle
omnivorous
chimerical
40. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
deleterious
anathema
raffish
junta
41. To leave quickly and secretively
fecund
omniscient
perquisite
abscond
42. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
pregnant
apoplexy
opprobrious
assignation
43. Wildly fanciful - absurd
prowess
exemplar
accouterments
chimerical
44. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
rout
privation
debacle
prurient
45. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
lassitude
nascent
munificent
protean
46. Able to walk or move about
apostasy
largess
hoary
ambulatory
47. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
adjure
puissance
coterie
gamin
48. To give off - to conceal
secrete
prevaricate
penury
lope
49. To rot
cachet
diurnal
putrefy
philistine
50. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
zaftig
implacable
vacuous
ribald