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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
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. Hard to understand or grasp
temporize
abstruse
oscillate
sine qua non
2. Fearful - easily frightened
sycophant
sangfroid
timorous
anomie
3. An excellent model - a typical example
perorate
castigate
omniscient
exemplar
4. To weaken - to sap the strength
salubrious
histrionic
vainglorious
enervate
5. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
putrefy
flagellate
nabob
veracious
6. Uncompromising - stubborn
bumptious
cogitate
alchemy
intransigent
7. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
acquit
cabal
mendacious
determinism
8. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
bathos
compunction
akimbo
exemplar
9. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
abstinence
repartee
malfeasance
miasma
10. To confuse - deceive
ambulatory
timorous
discomfit
opprobrious
11. Stingy
decimate
parsimonious
brook
comport
12. Wise - shrewd
miasma
rarefied
sagacious
draconian
13. A disaster or violent breakdown
inchoate
debacle
truculent
facetious
14. Winding - having many curves
punctilious
abscond
sinuous
libation
15. To give off - to conceal
prescient
histrionic
secrete
paradigm
16. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
trice
bowdlerize
evanescent
sententious
17. Dishonest - deceitful
patina
fecund
perorate
mendacious
18. A judge - one who decides
capricious
arbiter
simper
extirpate
19. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
feckless
husbandry
cataclysm
ascetic
20. Empty - lacking intelligence
dissipate
palliate
facetious
vacuous
21. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
libidinous
acquit
nascent
impervious
22. A massive - unstoppable object
reticent
juggernaut
gamin
cavil
23. To bewilder - to puzzle
nonplus
penultimate
ameliorate
panacea
24. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
recidivism
desiccate
gamin
macerate
25. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
antipodal
vainglorious
rife
calumny
26. Overly sentimental
maudlin
cogitate
gestalt
synergy
27. A remedy that cures everything
imbroglio
dulcet
panacea
scofflaw
28. Next to last
iniquitous
bacchanal
penultimate
ethnocentric
29. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
leitmotif
histrionic
sententious
vainglorious
30. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
inchoate
sinuous
umbrage
rife
31. Severe - exceedingly harsh
alchemy
mendacious
draconian
bivouac
32. Generous
espy
perquisite
exigent
munificent
33. Lacking color - wan
facetious
pallid
striated
lassitude
34. Evil - unjust
diaspora
iniquitous
gestalt
punctilious
35. Squalid - a slovenly woman
draconian
bowdlerize
slatternly
nepotism
36. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
noisome
doggerel
vitriolic
obsequious
37. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
prepossess
nonplus
omnivorous
hidebound
38. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
impugn
sycophant
tendentious
accouterments
39. To expose political misconduct
parsimonious
provenance
ambulatory
muckrake
40. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
reticent
sagacious
ignominious
hoary
41. To attack the integrity of something
macerate
gerrymander
impugn
bacchanal
42. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
mirthful
recalcitrant
secrete
sally
43. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
myopia
syllogism
palliate
panegyric
44. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
apoplexy
gamin
chary
largess
45. Hardworking - busy - diligent
petulant
perfidious
opprobrious
assiduous
46. To muse upon
ruminate
palliate
rout
patina
47. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
fey
juggernaut
panegyric
simper
48. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
placebo
chicanery
pregnant
sturm and drang
49. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
omniscient
contentious
patina
apogee
50. A sudden outburst
vacuous
putrefy
spate
omnivorous