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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. Truthful - honest
simper
profligate
veracious
officious
2. A cave explorer
leitmotif
spelunker
plebeian
onerous
3. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
obdurate
inchoate
akimbo
nascent
4. To run at a steady - easy pace
exemplar
lope
pregnant
timorous
5. Protection - patronage
sagacious
tendentious
probity
aegis
6. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
determinism
usury
lassitude
macerate
7. Oval - obscure in expression
putrefy
elliptical
veracious
officious
8. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
acquit
scotch
abstinence
bandy
9. Heading - title - category
conflagration
matriculate
rubric
descry
10. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
libidinous
mercurial
inchoate
byzantine
11. A procession - a group of attendants
prowess
impecunious
cortege
undulate
12. To honor - to worship - to respect
calumny
aegis
milieu
venerate
13. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
libation
halitosis
dilettante
contentious
14. Empty - lacking intelligence
sartorial
vacuous
wont
gerrymander
15. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
desiccate
spate
forswear
provenance
16. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
bivouac
histrionic
calumny
circumlocution
17. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
gamin
abrogate
philistine
fey
18. A large - disastrous fire
phlegmatic
encomium
reprobate
conflagration
19. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
draconian
vainglorious
gird
20. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
raffish
espy
macerate
sangfroid
21. Custom - habit
wont
deleterious
sycophant
apocryphal
22. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
trice
protean
saturnine
nepotism
23. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
nascent
ensconce
reprobate
scotch
24. A judge - one who decides
dulcet
propinquity
simper
arbiter
25. Honesty - uprightness
probity
deleterious
spate
juggernaut
26. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
apoplexy
adumbrate
penury
remuneration
27. Marked with thin lines or grooves
discomfit
perspicacious
striated
accouterments
28. Hot-tempered - cranky
bathos
milieu
gird
irascible
29. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
effete
recalcitrant
peregrination
shibboleth
30. A dominant or recurring theme
recondite
facetious
leitmotif
tendentious
31. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
alacrity
capricious
besmirch
alchemy
32. Bad breath
halitosis
remuneration
depredate
sententious
33. To confuse - deceive
sturm and drang
effete
discomfit
nonplus
34. To bewilder - to puzzle
profligate
mordant
alchemy
nonplus
35. Forest-like - wooded
levee
anomie
reprobate
sylvan
36. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
fey
cabal
panegyric
extirpate
37. To behave
niggardly
endemic
comport
nabob
38. Without money - penniless
profligate
wizened
accouterments
impecunious
39. Fawning - subservient - servile
elan
obsequious
dilettante
elliptical
40. Deception or trickery
ascetic
miasma
malapropism
chicanery
41. Evil - unjust
gird
iniquitous
veneer
covet
42. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
stalwart
dossier
malapropism
flagellate
43. The act of repeating an offense
recidivism
byzantine
leitmotif
mirthful
44. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
sylvan
irascible
sagacious
45. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
philistine
tendentious
privation
veneer
46. Lending money at a high interest rate
diurnal
usury
muckrake
prepossess
47. Power - strength
puissance
impervious
sycophant
aggrieve
48. To enroll - most particularly in college
scotch
matriculate
cogitate
zaftig
49. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
scofflaw
shibboleth
bathos
alchemy
50. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
zeitgeist
malapropism
lassitude
forswear