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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. Payment - recompense
remuneration
bacchanal
abstinence
syllogism
2. Having foresight
prescient
patois
debacle
apogee
3. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
stalwart
sui generis
lassitude
secrete
4. Hard to understand or grasp
wizened
doggerel
abstruse
prurient
5. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
clout
bandy
alacrity
oeuvre
6. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
perquisite
elliptical
nihilism
castigate
7. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
pallid
abrogate
extirpate
surreptitious
8. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
scotch
gesticulate
recondite
inveterate
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.
discomfit
nirvana
sycophant
sylvan
10. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
descry
placebo
ethnocentric
histrionic
11. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
simper
sartorial
stalwart
reprobate
12. An apparition - phantom
discomfit
mirthful
apogee
phantasm
13. In title only
fauna
prescient
titular
recondite
14. To invest with authority - to brace
gird
hoary
stalwart
junta
15. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
habeas corpus
abeyance
palliate
profligate
16. Without money - penniless
conflagration
milieu
impecunious
trice
17. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
evanescent
matriculate
gamin
facetious
18. An expedition - wandering
peregrination
sententious
rarefied
redoubtable
19. To make uneasy
halitosis
disquiet
milieu
vagary
20. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
gamin
apoplexy
scotch
omniscient
21. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
bathos
descry
rubric
compunction
22. Environment - surroundings
nepotism
itinerant
provenance
milieu
23. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
erudite
nihilism
maudlin
besmirch
24. Bad breath
halitosis
dissipate
prevaricate
abeyance
25. Drowsy - sleepy
comport
circumlocution
viscosity
somnolent
26. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
profligate
myopia
circumlocution
aggrieve
27. Custom - habit
wont
adjure
surreptitious
martinet
28. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
secrete
fecund
salubrious
perorate
29. Lending money at a high interest rate
usury
chicanery
sturm and drang
compunction
30. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
bumptious
apogee
philistine
onerous
31. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
machination
sine qua non
cataclysm
truculent
32. Stubborn
onerous
obdurate
timorous
vacuous
33. Harmful
intransigent
anathema
apogee
deleterious
34. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
rarefied
sangfroid
paradigm
cavil
35. Full-figured - plump
perfunctory
reprobate
zaftig
umbrage
36. Occurring during the day - happens every day
mendacious
erudite
diurnal
alchemy
37. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
dulcet
mellifluous
feckless
prurient
38. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
impecunious
impervious
milieu
scotch
39. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
compunction
sine qua non
feckless
privation
40. A gentle breeze
decimate
calumny
zephyr
abeyance
41. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
vitriolic
habeas corpus
repartee
reticent
42. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
sententious
sine qua non
sallow
officious
43. A system of natural healing
homeopathy
phlegmatic
comport
opprobrious
44. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
stalwart
sangfroid
aggrieve
flagellate
45. To run at a steady - easy pace
wizened
vacuous
brook
lope
46. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
inchoate
bivouac
cachet
gainsay
47. An excellent model - a typical example
clout
patois
largess
exemplar
48. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
aegis
abscond
anathema
abstruse
49. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
temporize
inveterate
rife
gerrymander
50. Relating to dress or fashion
tendentious
sartorial
scotch
exigent