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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. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
interregnum
munificent
machination
acquit
2. Pungent - charmingly provocative
concomitant
undulate
piquant
extirpate
3. Stingy - small in a mean way
feckless
niggardly
anomie
chary
4. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
pregnant
juggernaut
antipodal
bandy
5. Having foresight
discomfit
omniscient
prescient
macerate
6. A creative work - musical composition
quiescence
savant
opus
ribald
7. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
parsimonious
ennui
imbroglio
quiescence
8. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
hoary
officious
supercilious
alacrity
9. Talkative
clout
ennui
insouciant
garrulous
10. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
gainsay
moribund
inchoate
munificent
11. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
zephyr
perfunctory
parsimonious
repartee
12. A eulogy or expression of high praise
largess
encomium
libation
machination
13. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
sangfroid
coterie
impervious
encomium
14. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
contentious
impervious
discomfit
abeyance
15. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
mercurial
ethnocentric
deleterious
omniscient
16. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
diaspora
cachet
determinism
17. Full-figured - plump
dulcet
ethnocentric
protean
zaftig
18. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
disquiet
arbiter
timorous
19. Drowsy - sleepy
miasma
phlegmatic
sturm and drang
somnolent
20. A file of documents - letters and records
obsequious
dossier
oscillate
ameliorate
21. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
elliptical
bacchanal
assiduous
22. Winding - having many curves
byzantine
sycophant
ruminate
sinuous
23. Hot-tempered - cranky
endemic
accouterments
calumny
irascible
24. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
espy
scotch
somnolent
clout
25. Heading - title - category
impugn
effete
rubric
perspicacious
26. An expedition - wandering
sturm and drang
adumbrate
peregrination
veracious
27. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
obdurate
insouciant
recondite
prepossess
28. Fearful - easily frightened
zephyr
undulate
onus
timorous
29. To behave
belie
comport
dossier
cortege
30. Slander - deliberate false statements
temerity
parsimonious
calumny
tendentious
31. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
plebeian
elan
cabal
32. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
anomie
wastrel
flagellate
sturm and drang
33. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
dilettante
mirthful
interregnum
privation
34. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
descry
venerate
aggrieve
chary
35. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
effete
clout
cogitate
ruminate
36. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
sui generis
apostasy
deleterious
remuneration
37. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
reticent
alchemy
abscond
martinet
38. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
behemoth
vicarious
prescient
39. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
viscosity
noisome
rapprochement
nonplus
40. To confuse - deceive
discomfit
dissipate
exigent
bumptious
41. Fawning - subservient - servile
supercilious
interregnum
vitriolic
obsequious
42. Hardworking - busy - diligent
assiduous
mordant
sally
circumlocution
43. A temporary suspension of activity
conflagration
feckless
abeyance
somnolent
44. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
munificent
sententious
habeas corpus
rubric
45. Boldness - rashness - audacity
perfidious
temerity
depredate
halitosis
46. Next to last
penultimate
endemic
perfidious
concomitant
47. A system of natural healing
homeopathy
intransigent
feral
decimate
48. Influence - a forceful blow
provenance
ascetic
compunction
clout
49. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
perfidious
acquit
effete
gestalt
50. Uncompromising - stubborn
intransigent
diaspora
fecund
malapropism