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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. A sudden outburst
deleterious
spate
exemplar
secrete
2. Turmoil
omniscient
sturm and drang
capricious
striated
3. Full-figured - plump
malapropism
mercurial
zaftig
capricious
4. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
cavil
impecunious
doggerel
acquit
5. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
flagellate
ennui
noisome
exigent
6. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
flagellate
zaftig
panegyric
acquit
7. To muse upon
abscond
rarefied
ruminate
temporize
8. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
timorous
apogee
scofflaw
undulate
9. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
rapprochement
gesticulate
palliate
rarefied
10. Whim - an unpredictable action
veracious
sylvan
sui generis
vagary
11. Having foresight
vicarious
disquiet
prescient
sycophant
12. Influence - a forceful blow
clout
ribald
impecunious
repartee
13. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
mordant
anathema
aggrieve
elan
14. Coming into existence - being born
veracious
nascent
scofflaw
syllogism
15. Sweetly flowing
cataclysm
ameliorate
mellifluous
machination
16. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
extirpate
temerity
gerrymander
veracious
17. To make uneasy
disquiet
nonplus
adumbrate
stalwart
18. Lacking color - wan
truculent
pallid
libidinous
habeas corpus
19. Protection - patronage
recondite
punctilious
aegis
rubric
20. Nearness in place or time - kinship
chicanery
toothsome
propinquity
sinuous
21. Occurring during the day - happens every day
insouciant
diurnal
officious
adumbrate
22. Bad breath
halitosis
surreptitious
fey
sally
23. A temporary encampment
akimbo
nihilism
supercilious
bivouac
24. Slander - deliberate false statements
calumny
bivouac
comport
hoary
25. To deviate from the truth
usury
aggrieve
prevaricate
scotch
26. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
perorate
accolade
viscosity
inveterate
27. Empty - lacking intelligence
vacuous
peregrination
bathos
castigate
28. Generous
munificent
exemplar
rife
toothsome
29. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
peregrination
abeyance
ambulatory
sallow
30. A judge - one who decides
arbiter
ameliorate
aegis
hoary
31. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
matriculate
perfunctory
probity
32. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
lassitude
reprobate
tendentious
assignation
33. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
bon vivant
synergy
assiduous
compunction
34. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
exigent
mendacious
lassitude
akimbo
35. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
profligate
cavil
habeas corpus
iniquitous
36. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
vicarious
vacuous
anathema
ennui
37. State of rest or inactivity
onerous
quiescence
matriculate
coterie
38. An intimate group of people with a common interest
interregnum
prepossess
coterie
rubric
39. A disaster or violent breakdown
debacle
philistine
evanescent
maudlin
40. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
temerity
ersatz
abeyance
41. Faithless - untrustworthy
phantasm
perfidious
temporize
flagellate
42. Winding - having many curves
conflagration
sinuous
truculent
impervious
43. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
behemoth
byzantine
panegyric
halitosis
44. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
officious
feckless
sallow
facetious
45. An apparition - phantom
arbiter
facetious
iniquitous
phantasm
46. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
reprobate
histrionic
ameliorate
insouciant
47. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
arbiter
nascent
sartorial
philistine
48. To tolerate - to put up with something
behemoth
brook
plebeian
patina
49. Evil - unjust
iniquitous
prescient
imbroglio
bathos
50. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
cataclysm
discomfit
gainsay
facetious