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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. Lustful - lascivious
fey
endemic
parsimonious
libidinous
2. One who is continually breaking the law
saturnine
scofflaw
irascible
fetter
3. A wealthy - influential person
nabob
ambulatory
piquant
protean
4. Common - vulgar - low class
temerity
plebeian
muckrake
sally
5. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
akimbo
sententious
besmirch
opprobrious
6. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
nirvana
prescient
prepossess
accolade
7. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
simper
mercurial
matriculate
apocryphal
8. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
synergy
bilious
vicarious
profligate
9. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
feral
veneer
noisome
protean
10. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
clout
apocryphal
chimerical
savant
11. To swing back and forth
iniquitous
patois
oscillate
dulcet
12. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
sycophant
zeitgeist
flagellate
disquiet
13. Whim - an unpredictable action
foment
macerate
ethnocentric
vagary
14. Deception or trickery
inchoate
chicanery
effete
depredate
15. To attack the integrity of something
opprobrious
decimate
gainsay
impugn
16. Fearful - easily frightened
perorate
tony
timorous
akimbo
17. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
zeitgeist
junta
lope
officious
18. Boastful - pompous
vainglorious
anathema
sartorial
iniquitous
19. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
gainsay
habeas corpus
saturnine
bivouac
20. To muse upon
fecund
ruminate
accolade
descry
21. An expedition - wandering
trice
imbroglio
peregrination
vitriolic
22. To weaken - to sap the strength
elliptical
enervate
cortege
machination
23. Protection - patronage
perspicacious
aegis
maudlin
opus
24. Bad breath
vacuous
protean
halitosis
ambulatory
25. An apparition - phantom
obsequious
gerrymander
phantasm
onerous
26. Relating to dress or fashion
anomie
bathos
mirthful
sartorial
27. To distress - to mistreat
aggrieve
niggardly
secrete
rife
28. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
dossier
facetious
raffish
gesticulate
29. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
histrionic
doggerel
ancillary
ignominious
30. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
sylvan
prescient
rout
31. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
sine qua non
ennui
byzantine
nihilism
32. To bewilder - to puzzle
recalcitrant
myopia
husbandry
nonplus
33. A system of natural healing
saturnine
homeopathy
puissance
niggardly
34. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
titular
vicarious
alacrity
exemplar
35. Pungent - charmingly provocative
cogitate
patois
byzantine
piquant
36. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
bandy
bon vivant
officious
apocryphal
37. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
usury
irascible
capricious
oeuvre
38. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
insouciant
titular
ribald
sangfroid
39. Advancing a point of view - biased
espy
tendentious
sangfroid
assiduous
40. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
bowdlerize
petulant
tony
cavil
41. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
peregrination
redoubtable
toothsome
scotch
42. Facade - coating - outward appearance
chary
adumbrate
sententious
veneer
43. Hostile - aggressive - savage
zephyr
gestalt
truculent
comport
44. Generous
munificent
wizened
ennui
privation
45. Forest-like - wooded
sylvan
abeyance
machination
imbroglio
46. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
conflagration
vicarious
gesticulate
besmirch
47. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
depredate
abstruse
sine qua non
48. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malfeasance
dilettante
remuneration
malapropism
49. Disgraceful and dishonorable
shibboleth
ignominious
striated
apoplexy
50. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
draconian
putrefy
anathema
fetter