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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. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
reprobate
recondite
oeuvre
mordant
2. Something that is an essential condition of
moribund
sine qua non
abrogate
veracious
3. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
temporize
comport
conflagration
4. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
apostasy
redoubtable
oscillate
bivouac
5. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
dissipate
profligate
omnivorous
bumptious
6. To wish for with envy
wont
covet
redoubtable
bilious
7. A temporary suspension of activity
abeyance
oscillate
nabob
macerate
8. Winding - having many curves
apocryphal
gird
palliate
sinuous
9. Common - vulgar - low class
alchemy
plebeian
maudlin
punctilious
10. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
savant
feral
truculent
oscillate
11. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
parsimonious
redoubtable
punctilious
penury
12. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
portent
penultimate
rubric
nascent
13. To expose political misconduct
muckrake
doff
conflagration
opus
14. Able to walk or move about
perfidious
abstruse
ambulatory
protean
15. To make uneasy
disquiet
ambulatory
machination
propinquity
16. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
raffish
gestalt
pluralism
panegyric
17. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
sangfroid
temporize
compunction
rife
18. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
contentious
hidebound
privation
recidivism
19. Deception or trickery
ersatz
aggrieve
chicanery
macerate
20. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
recondite
histrionic
bumptious
assignation
21. An apparition - phantom
histrionic
elan
mendacious
phantasm
22. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
shibboleth
interregnum
prepossess
adjure
23. Boldness - rashness - audacity
venerate
sine qua non
hidebound
temerity
24. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
covet
chimerical
junta
ruminate
25. Influence - a forceful blow
niggardly
sagacious
clout
intransigent
26. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
sallow
wastrel
facetious
putrefy
27. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
nascent
undulate
capricious
cachet
28. Favorable to health
salubrious
quiescence
exigent
perfunctory
29. To make better - to ease or improve
propinquity
tendentious
discomfit
ameliorate
30. Nearness in place or time - kinship
propinquity
garrulous
salubrious
penultimate
31. Having foresight
alacrity
prescient
doff
pluralism
32. Merry - gleeful
besmirch
mordant
mirthful
mendacious
33. Heading - title - category
sui generis
redoubtable
rubric
forswear
34. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
apocryphal
viscosity
forswear
veneer
35. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
onus
placebo
antipodal
viscosity
36. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
byzantine
patina
sartorial
punctilious
37. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
matriculate
patois
diaspora
usury
38. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
lassitude
nascent
bilious
putrefy
39. Lacking color - wan
pallid
cavil
ambulatory
parsimonious
40. An illegal act especially by a public official
prepossess
malfeasance
evanescent
cataclysm
41. A system of natural healing
inchoate
ensconce
homeopathy
scotch
42. To impede - restrain - hamper
exigent
fetter
perspicacious
sycophant
43. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
protean
wont
machination
ossify
44. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
vainglorious
sallow
raffish
impervious
45. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
dilettante
sycophant
cataclysm
bivouac
46. To enroll - most particularly in college
abstinence
sylvan
brook
matriculate
47. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
savant
ancillary
castigate
zephyr
48. Squalid - a slovenly woman
quiescence
sangfroid
slatternly
nepotism
49. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
anomie
scofflaw
wont
toothsome
50. Stubborn
dossier
nihilism
accolade
obdurate