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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. To expose political misconduct
sartorial
obdurate
dissipate
muckrake
2. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
cataclysm
noisome
prescient
spelunker
3. To enroll - most particularly in college
matriculate
hidebound
antipodal
tendentious
4. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
histrionic
verdant
feckless
tony
5. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
malapropism
nirvana
sally
doff
6. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
apostasy
acquit
conflagration
placebo
7. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
malapropism
sententious
implacable
phlegmatic
8. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
vitriolic
rife
moribund
bandy
9. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
martinet
plebeian
anathema
10. Hostile - aggressive - savage
espy
temporize
truculent
sycophant
11. A massive - unstoppable object
conflagration
putrefy
alchemy
juggernaut
12. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
obsequious
dossier
doff
perfunctory
13. To dry out
repartee
striated
desiccate
rubric
14. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
foment
facetious
vitriolic
abscond
15. Retract - renounce or recant
patois
forswear
neophyte
portent
16. An expedition - wandering
peregrination
noisome
paradigm
veneer
17. Pungent - charmingly provocative
slatternly
piquant
zeitgeist
munificent
18. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
veracious
rife
supercilious
milieu
19. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
machination
iniquitous
hoary
cogitate
20. Favorable to health
salubrious
discomfit
assiduous
munificent
21. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
probity
deleterious
slatternly
pluralism
22. To invest with authority - to brace
puissance
hidebound
gird
extirpate
23. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
omnivorous
veneer
calumny
inchoate
24. Fertile - productive - fruitful
penury
sententious
garrulous
fecund
25. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
interregnum
halitosis
nirvana
oscillate
26. Bad breath
halitosis
prepossess
veneer
levee
27. A beginner - a novice
cachet
saturnine
obdurate
neophyte
28. To kill or destroy a large part of
lope
decimate
palliate
besmirch
29. Protection - patronage
zeitgeist
prevaricate
espy
aegis
30. An inferior substitute
ersatz
bon vivant
lope
onerous
31. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
omnivorous
petulant
oeuvre
opprobrious
32. A eulogy or expression of high praise
officious
cabal
nepotism
encomium
33. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
malapropism
capricious
mirthful
circumlocution
34. State of rest or inactivity
munificent
mellifluous
oscillate
quiescence
35. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
prurient
perfunctory
apocryphal
vicarious
36. A gentle breeze
officious
zephyr
perorate
matriculate
37. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
myopia
palliate
protean
remuneration
38. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
slatternly
hoary
fusillade
prevaricate
39. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
debacle
malapropism
macerate
prowess
40. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
endemic
pluralism
dissipate
supercilious
41. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
temporize
aggrieve
bacchanal
bumptious
42. Careful - cautious - wary
shibboleth
chary
moribund
cachet
43. A drunken reveler or orgy
irascible
probity
bacchanal
mellifluous
44. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
prescient
impervious
sui generis
45. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
feral
ribald
prurient
sturm and drang
46. Moving from place to place
oscillate
patois
itinerant
matriculate
47. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
noisome
vitriolic
gestalt
doggerel
48. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
prepossess
elliptical
titular
arbiter
49. The mood or spirit of the times
zeitgeist
savant
interregnum
behemoth
50. Lending money at a high interest rate
sallow
scotch
privation
usury