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SAT Word Power Harder
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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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1. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
diaspora
pregnant
abscond
anomie
2. A remedy that cures everything
apostasy
bumptious
panacea
titular
3. A eulogy or expression of high praise
tendentious
encomium
timorous
titular
4. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
bandy
philistine
ennui
besmirch
5. A procession - a group of attendants
fetter
cortege
syllogism
byzantine
6. Being in a dying or decaying condition
oscillate
abstinence
sylvan
moribund
7. To enroll - most particularly in college
sycophant
matriculate
brook
mirthful
8. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
syllogism
contentious
adumbrate
espy
9. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
coterie
homeopathy
alchemy
cachet
10. The act of repeating an offense
assiduous
rubric
recidivism
depredate
11. Deception or trickery
rapprochement
temporize
toothsome
chicanery
12. To distress - to mistreat
salubrious
fetter
nabob
aggrieve
13. Fawning - subservient - servile
obsequious
akimbo
reprobate
nabob
14. An expedition - wandering
gamin
peregrination
sagacious
perorate
15. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
determinism
sylvan
saturnine
junta
16. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
syllogism
cogitate
insouciant
akimbo
17. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
sallow
abrogate
recidivism
pluralism
18. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
espy
gamin
savant
umbrage
19. Squalid - a slovenly woman
debacle
mellifluous
slatternly
munificent
20. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
acquit
perfunctory
prepossess
byzantine
21. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
vacuous
quiescence
depredate
supercilious
22. Vulgar or indecent language
juggernaut
recondite
ribald
panegyric
23. Shriveled - withered
wizened
malapropism
remuneration
savant
24. To make uneasy
usury
disquiet
portent
cachet
25. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
petulant
determinism
simper
pluralism
26. To tolerate - to put up with something
propinquity
implacable
depredate
brook
27. Common - vulgar - low class
plebeian
cortege
remuneration
vagary
28. A wealthy - influential person
exemplar
nabob
nihilism
lope
29. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
histrionic
bowdlerize
rarefied
enervate
30. Harmful
maudlin
deleterious
gesticulate
assignation
31. A massive - unstoppable object
capricious
juggernaut
ossify
pluralism
32. Fertile - productive - fruitful
fecund
savant
piquant
antipodal
33. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
mirthful
bumptious
gerrymander
usury
34. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
antipodal
timorous
cavil
mellifluous
35. Lacking color - wan
obdurate
abeyance
pallid
adjure
36. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
chicanery
penultimate
apoplexy
besmirch
37. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
ruminate
omniscient
pluralism
38. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
byzantine
undulate
miasma
omniscient
39. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
sartorial
besmirch
insouciant
machination
40. To kill or destroy a large part of
vitriolic
feral
decimate
remuneration
41. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
patina
perorate
castigate
provenance
42. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
cataclysm
moribund
feral
saturnine
43. Protection - patronage
aegis
nihilism
irascible
provenance
44. To leave quickly and secretively
arbiter
wont
abscond
cabal
45. Facade - coating - outward appearance
scotch
veneer
nihilism
bon vivant
46. Subsidiary - subordinate
ancillary
clout
bacchanal
salubrious
47. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
pluralism
bilious
palliate
histrionic
48. Overly sentimental
phlegmatic
bilious
supercilious
maudlin
49. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
perorate
assignation
compunction
perquisite
50. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
rout
hoary
fey
mercurial