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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. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
temporize
behemoth
enervate
erudite
2. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
onus
temerity
reticent
palliate
3. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
wastrel
disquiet
noisome
synergy
4. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
reprobate
doff
apoplexy
phantasm
5. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
temerity
desiccate
descry
histrionic
6. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
flagellate
paradigm
byzantine
ribald
7. Hot-tempered - cranky
sycophant
irascible
pallid
omnivorous
8. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
vainglorious
ossify
impecunious
matriculate
9. All knowing - infinite awareness
omniscient
sturm and drang
foment
niggardly
10. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
circumlocution
plebeian
inveterate
placebo
11. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
disquiet
punctilious
impervious
oeuvre
12. To swing back and forth
apostasy
enervate
espy
oscillate
13. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
puissance
husbandry
determinism
libation
14. To bewilder - to puzzle
nonplus
truculent
punctilious
compunction
15. A beginner - a novice
brook
interregnum
neophyte
officious
16. A creative work - musical composition
brook
neophyte
obsequious
opus
17. To wish for with envy
covet
neophyte
vicarious
wastrel
18. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
cataclysm
ancillary
bathos
flagellate
19. Having foresight
truculent
obdurate
remuneration
prescient
20. To rot
nascent
mellifluous
putrefy
insouciant
21. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
slatternly
petulant
ethnocentric
insouciant
22. Nearness in place or time - kinship
wastrel
propinquity
oeuvre
neophyte
23. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
zephyr
irascible
tony
garrulous
24. The act of repeating an offense
recidivism
shibboleth
perquisite
bilious
25. An excellent model - a typical example
sinuous
sagacious
exemplar
depredate
26. Uncompromising - stubborn
intransigent
alchemy
placebo
rife
27. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
anathema
conflagration
privation
spate
28. To muse upon
portent
assignation
ruminate
salubrious
29. Favorable to health
syllogism
salubrious
feckless
foment
30. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
opprobrious
nihilism
hidebound
perfunctory
31. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
panegyric
espy
rubric
recalcitrant
32. A gentle breeze
feral
zephyr
shibboleth
scotch
33. Honesty - uprightness
probity
adumbrate
husbandry
venerate
34. A model or example
paradigm
ambulatory
obdurate
reticent
35. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
deleterious
doff
conflagration
elan
36. An illegal act especially by a public official
surreptitious
striated
zaftig
malfeasance
37. Moving from place to place
dossier
itinerant
fauna
cogitate
38. Talkative
garrulous
phantasm
feckless
philistine
39. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
portent
homeopathy
libation
vacuous
40. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
spate
desiccate
muckrake
anathema
41. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
lassitude
abstruse
sangfroid
fecund
42. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
petulant
levee
elliptical
ambulatory
43. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
raffish
vicarious
vacuous
44. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
panacea
chimerical
abrogate
macerate
45. Accompanying - attending - going along with
coterie
concomitant
impecunious
protean
46. State of rest or inactivity
ruminate
penultimate
perfidious
quiescence
47. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
insouciant
secrete
recalcitrant
feckless
48. Environment - surroundings
abstruse
protean
milieu
garrulous
49. Common - vulgar - low class
tendentious
prurient
plebeian
obsequious
50. A moment - a short period of time
cachet
plebeian
oeuvre
trice