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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
supercilious
doff
apoplexy
recidivism
2. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
sally
prevaricate
arbiter
capricious
3. Faithless - untrustworthy
ethnocentric
zephyr
feral
perfidious
4. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
doff
obsequious
impervious
perfidious
5. Hot-tempered - cranky
irascible
fusillade
rarefied
spate
6. Bad breath
hoary
halitosis
privation
libation
7. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
sycophant
circumlocution
syllogism
sylvan
8. Marked with thin lines or grooves
mordant
ambulatory
striated
deleterious
9. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
phlegmatic
ancillary
nirvana
intransigent
10. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
husbandry
largess
reprobate
coterie
11. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
shibboleth
gerrymander
bumptious
synergy
12. Relating to dress or fashion
cavil
sartorial
hidebound
sycophant
13. Hostile - aggressive - savage
zaftig
truculent
puissance
malfeasance
14. 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
milieu
zeitgeist
petulant
diaspora
15. Division into two often contradictory parts
dichotomy
leitmotif
alchemy
simper
16. Shriveled - withered
garrulous
wizened
gainsay
ambulatory
17. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
dissipate
reticent
feckless
histrionic
18. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
mirthful
reticent
omnivorous
facetious
19. All knowing - infinite awareness
aegis
tony
rout
omniscient
20. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
wont
puissance
fey
slatternly
21. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
sartorial
rout
viscosity
22. Sneaky - secret
bumptious
surreptitious
maudlin
venerate
23. Hard to understand or grasp
abstruse
venerate
myopia
espy
24. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
propinquity
machination
synergy
myopia
25. An illegal act especially by a public official
malfeasance
evanescent
husbandry
calumny
26. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
perorate
elan
exigent
abrogate
27. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
zaftig
bathos
mirthful
officious
28. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
doff
fusillade
descry
nonplus
29. To behave
ameliorate
perorate
comport
accouterments
30. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
cabal
savant
provenance
abstinence
31. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
abstruse
vainglorious
philistine
mordant
32. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
punctilious
behemoth
interregnum
nihilism
33. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
dossier
perquisite
shibboleth
garrulous
34. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
martinet
bathos
petulant
nascent
35. Full-figured - plump
repartee
ossify
zaftig
gestalt
36. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
bivouac
maudlin
sally
acquit
37. Advancing a point of view - biased
paradigm
privation
tendentious
spelunker
38. An apparition - phantom
philistine
phantasm
trice
exemplar
39. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
tony
palliate
antipodal
elan
40. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
apogee
hoary
impecunious
cogitate
41. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
viscosity
vainglorious
perfunctory
temerity
42. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
fusillade
sycophant
petulant
wont
43. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
dilettante
wont
abstruse
prepossess
44. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
antipodal
onus
onerous
doff
45. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
martinet
dossier
sine qua non
oeuvre
46. An inferior substitute
surreptitious
vacuous
puissance
ersatz
47. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
hidebound
covet
impugn
acquit
48. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
recidivism
prurient
debacle
conflagration
49. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
inchoate
munificent
rapprochement
facetious
50. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
doff
prowess
vicarious
nepotism