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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. To dry out
rife
desiccate
nirvana
usury
2. In title only
rapprochement
titular
discomfit
peregrination
3. Hardworking - busy - diligent
assiduous
evanescent
punctilious
putrefy
4. An expedition - wandering
leitmotif
bathos
ruminate
peregrination
5. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
moribund
comport
sinuous
6. Faithless - untrustworthy
gamin
perfidious
behemoth
lope
7. Bad breath
repartee
halitosis
anomie
penultimate
8. Squalid - a slovenly woman
truculent
slatternly
savant
redoubtable
9. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
exigent
omnivorous
itinerant
antipodal
10. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
dissipate
punctilious
fusillade
munificent
11. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
feckless
cataclysm
aggrieve
nirvana
12. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
anomie
cortege
inchoate
bowdlerize
13. A sudden outburst
nonplus
spate
inveterate
adjure
14. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
erudite
paradigm
implacable
encomium
15. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
patina
apostasy
matriculate
piquant
16. Something that is an essential condition of
sine qua non
pluralism
covet
juggernaut
17. To deviate from the truth
prevaricate
recidivism
largess
aegis
18. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
bivouac
viscosity
garrulous
diaspora
19. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
acquit
cavil
noisome
perfunctory
20. To make uneasy
martinet
foment
halitosis
disquiet
21. A wealthy - influential person
nabob
pallid
juggernaut
stalwart
22. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
conflagration
homeopathy
pregnant
23. Sneaky - secret
alchemy
ensconce
surreptitious
temporize
24. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
oeuvre
machination
prurient
recondite
25. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
vainglorious
mendacious
flagellate
obdurate
26. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
prevaricate
garrulous
patois
savant
27. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
ossify
acquit
anathema
propinquity
28. Relating to dress or fashion
apoplexy
sartorial
petulant
salubrious
29. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
bilious
perfidious
levee
moribund
30. Wise - shrewd
extirpate
sagacious
ennui
ancillary
31. To give off - to conceal
gerrymander
doff
secrete
oscillate
32. To swing back and forth
putrefy
cavil
bon vivant
oscillate
33. A remedy that cures everything
panacea
propinquity
reprobate
cabal
34. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
gesticulate
chary
lassitude
punctilious
35. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
rapprochement
bumptious
privation
irascible
36. Influence - a forceful blow
clout
parsimonious
histrionic
secrete
37. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
omniscient
verdant
nonplus
38. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
sangfroid
leitmotif
omniscient
bilious
39. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
omnivorous
miasma
pluralism
ascetic
40. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
martinet
opprobrious
sententious
rapprochement
41. A temporary encampment
prescient
muckrake
redoubtable
bivouac
42. To run at a steady - easy pace
surreptitious
lope
pluralism
largess
43. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
obdurate
onerous
feral
acquit
44. Heading - title - category
recalcitrant
fetter
rubric
cogitate
45. Protection - patronage
aegis
covet
sturm and drang
dossier
46. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
perspicacious
cataclysm
noisome
47. Division into two often contradictory parts
abscond
accolade
dichotomy
petulant
48. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
sagacious
piquant
fey
abstruse
49. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
gerrymander
effete
cachet
acquit
50. The mood or spirit of the times
assignation
verdant
zeitgeist
sinuous