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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 society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
dulcet
insouciant
pluralism
ersatz
2. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
noisome
oscillate
officious
hidebound
3. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
diurnal
ensconce
nascent
bon vivant
4. A temporary encampment
dossier
omniscient
penury
bivouac
5. Something that is an essential condition of
sine qua non
protean
castigate
myopia
6. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
akimbo
facetious
puissance
repartee
7. A model or example
oscillate
akimbo
protean
paradigm
8. Bad breath
dissipate
placebo
halitosis
adumbrate
9. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
alchemy
comport
sagacious
dissipate
10. Nearness in place or time - kinship
cabal
sallow
propinquity
opprobrious
11. To enroll - most particularly in college
striated
matriculate
tendentious
accouterments
12. Advancing a point of view - biased
tendentious
truculent
fetter
machination
13. A drunken reveler or orgy
puissance
reprobate
bon vivant
bacchanal
14. Power - strength
puissance
philistine
concomitant
doff
15. Evil - unjust
iniquitous
impecunious
perquisite
interregnum
16. A procession - a group of attendants
cortege
forswear
quiescence
sagacious
17. A fake medication
temporize
sinuous
conflagration
placebo
18. All knowing - infinite awareness
dulcet
dilettante
bilious
omniscient
19. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
cogitate
paradigm
libation
discomfit
20. To make better - to ease or improve
halitosis
impecunious
martinet
ameliorate
21. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
abrogate
doggerel
recidivism
bandy
22. To swing back and forth
abstinence
trice
saturnine
oscillate
23. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
protean
obdurate
sycophant
cavil
24. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malapropism
leitmotif
apostasy
clout
25. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
penury
fey
bumptious
apogee
26. Moving from place to place
spelunker
quiescence
ignominious
itinerant
27. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
fetter
mendacious
gesticulate
bilious
28. Occurring during the day - happens every day
rarefied
ancillary
exigent
diurnal
29. A judge - one who decides
sturm and drang
pallid
arbiter
cogitate
30. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
anomie
apostasy
verdant
repartee
31. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
synergy
feral
portent
profligate
32. An expedition - wandering
prevaricate
peregrination
phlegmatic
dilettante
33. To put an end to
scotch
facetious
coterie
impugn
34. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
pluralism
rout
probity
implacable
35. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
perorate
gerrymander
bivouac
panegyric
36. The mood or spirit of the times
plebeian
sententious
erudite
zeitgeist
37. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
interregnum
scotch
abrogate
spate
38. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
antipodal
desiccate
byzantine
opprobrious
39. A large - disastrous fire
clout
gird
privation
conflagration
40. Having foresight
prescient
gird
trice
sententious
41. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
sartorial
extirpate
rout
raffish
42. To deny - to speak or act against
nabob
reticent
gainsay
comport
43. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
bandy
fey
cachet
arbiter
44. To leave quickly and secretively
ossify
scofflaw
milieu
abscond
45. Hardworking - busy - diligent
zeitgeist
aegis
veneer
assiduous
46. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
philistine
oeuvre
piquant
syllogism
47. To gesture - especially when speaking
doggerel
bathos
compunction
gesticulate
48. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
endemic
puissance
palliate
coterie
49. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
bon vivant
decimate
apoplexy
machination
50. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
ruminate
bumptious
moribund
hidebound