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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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1. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
plebeian
impecunious
bumptious
elan
2. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
officious
opprobrious
desiccate
3. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
nascent
sally
adumbrate
levee
4. To bewilder - to puzzle
nonplus
nascent
husbandry
fecund
5. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
depredate
scotch
officious
6. To dry out
diaspora
desiccate
munificent
alacrity
7. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
apoplexy
reprobate
lassitude
halitosis
8. Careful - cautious - wary
reprobate
chary
oscillate
plebeian
9. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
slatternly
ossify
cataclysm
antipodal
10. Fearful - easily frightened
timorous
doggerel
scofflaw
elliptical
11. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
impugn
puissance
miasma
sagacious
12. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
sententious
phlegmatic
martinet
capricious
13. An intimate group of people with a common interest
timorous
gerrymander
coterie
miasma
14. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
phlegmatic
viscosity
rout
supercilious
15. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
miasma
ersatz
palliate
16. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
scotch
cataclysm
perorate
endemic
17. Squalid - a slovenly woman
fusillade
slatternly
perorate
covet
18. Drowsy - sleepy
parsimonious
toothsome
somnolent
interregnum
19. To honor - to worship - to respect
synergy
apostasy
lassitude
venerate
20. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
umbrage
nirvana
ancillary
depredate
21. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
bacchanal
dilettante
libation
implacable
22. An excellent model - a typical example
patina
milieu
abstinence
exemplar
23. Occurring during the day - happens every day
diurnal
encomium
gesticulate
chicanery
24. To make better - to ease or improve
clout
ameliorate
espy
sangfroid
25. A eulogy or expression of high praise
bivouac
encomium
habeas corpus
dulcet
26. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
slatternly
decimate
syllogism
reprobate
27. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
apogee
libation
nihilism
hidebound
28. Full-figured - plump
milieu
zaftig
doff
viscosity
29. Boastful - pompous
recidivism
decimate
bivouac
vainglorious
30. A temporary suspension of activity
ascetic
patois
puissance
abeyance
31. Custom - habit
synergy
wont
prowess
phantasm
32. To tolerate - to put up with something
bumptious
brook
lope
feral
33. A disaster or violent breakdown
nascent
debacle
assignation
gird
34. A sudden outburst
spate
rapprochement
gestalt
gerrymander
35. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
belie
sallow
temerity
iniquitous
36. Shriveled - withered
wizened
impecunious
abstruse
simper
37. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
antipodal
mellifluous
elan
abrogate
38. Honesty - uprightness
saturnine
privation
secrete
probity
39. Accompanying - attending - going along with
rife
concomitant
sycophant
panacea
40. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
determinism
draconian
comport
usury
41. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
impecunious
raffish
syllogism
aegis
42. Having foresight
timorous
bacchanal
bon vivant
prescient
43. To deviate from the truth
prevaricate
abstinence
remuneration
viscosity
44. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
elan
punctilious
capricious
matriculate
45. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
facetious
viscosity
apogee
arbiter
46. Hot-tempered - cranky
irascible
dossier
punctilious
debacle
47. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
fey
apogee
anomie
insouciant
48. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
halitosis
tony
remuneration
vitriolic
49. The mood or spirit of the times
aegis
adumbrate
zeitgeist
adjure
50. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
homeopathy
impervious
antipodal
gird