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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. Covered with green plants - leafy
doff
recondite
verdant
repartee
2. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
dulcet
cogitate
somnolent
doggerel
3. An inferior substitute
ersatz
sartorial
impugn
surreptitious
4. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
bilious
panacea
protean
gainsay
5. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
probity
doff
perspicacious
dilettante
6. Subsidiary - subordinate
petulant
propinquity
encomium
ancillary
7. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
penury
malfeasance
accouterments
nonplus
8. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
enervate
malapropism
niggardly
bumptious
9. To distress - to mistreat
syllogism
aggrieve
lope
determinism
10. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
spate
arbiter
sycophant
syllogism
11. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
feckless
pregnant
perfidious
histrionic
12. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
noisome
opprobrious
provenance
anomie
13. A temporary suspension of activity
abeyance
libidinous
spate
obsequious
14. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
apoplexy
foment
adjure
patina
15. Hot-tempered - cranky
encomium
onus
castigate
irascible
16. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
syllogism
nascent
apostasy
profligate
17. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
flagellate
privation
perspicacious
levee
18. To deviate from the truth
prevaricate
phantasm
nirvana
ruminate
19. To attack the integrity of something
provenance
impugn
dilettante
diurnal
20. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
viscosity
largess
recidivism
petulant
21. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
halitosis
mirthful
omnivorous
erudite
22. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
prowess
tony
simper
quiescence
23. To muse upon
recalcitrant
ameliorate
abeyance
ruminate
24. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
venerate
akimbo
rife
pallid
25. A gentle breeze
mercurial
pregnant
zephyr
elan
26. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
vicarious
imbroglio
philistine
rout
27. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
gerrymander
zeitgeist
verdant
28. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
bon vivant
antipodal
oscillate
29. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
dichotomy
encomium
dilettante
niggardly
30. To wish for with envy
sententious
saturnine
placebo
covet
31. To kill or destroy a large part of
prescient
decimate
noisome
inveterate
32. Award or honor - high praise
ossify
lassitude
supercilious
accolade
33. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
alchemy
halitosis
apogee
obsequious
34. Drowsy - sleepy
simper
somnolent
elan
obdurate
35. A eulogy or expression of high praise
dossier
sycophant
draconian
encomium
36. Squalid - a slovenly woman
somnolent
slatternly
nabob
zeitgeist
37. Forest-like - wooded
alacrity
nascent
fetter
sylvan
38. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
abstinence
mordant
prurient
cortege
39. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
rapprochement
decimate
miasma
saturnine
40. Pungent - charmingly provocative
maudlin
bumptious
inchoate
piquant
41. Evil - unjust
endemic
ethnocentric
prurient
iniquitous
42. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
stalwart
toothsome
cavil
redoubtable
43. Animals
apogee
fauna
ensconce
myopia
44. Turmoil
dossier
desiccate
sturm and drang
fetter
45. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
striated
cataclysm
pregnant
mirthful
46. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
habeas corpus
bowdlerize
nonplus
lope
47. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
anathema
martinet
irascible
junta
48. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
gird
spate
officious
pluralism
49. Heading - title - category
recondite
rubric
perfidious
supercilious
50. A sudden outburst
spate
abrogate
mellifluous
coterie