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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Full-figured - plump
usury
perspicacious
umbrage
zaftig
2. Subsidiary - subordinate
opprobrious
striated
conflagration
ancillary
3. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
cavil
ensconce
mordant
palliate
4. Lacking color - wan
savant
pallid
rout
abeyance
5. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
descry
junta
alacrity
macerate
6. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
flagellate
gestalt
reprobate
saturnine
7. To smile foolishly
tony
simper
miasma
maudlin
8. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
ersatz
redoubtable
vacuous
mordant
9. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
bivouac
adumbrate
espy
compunction
10. Hot-tempered - cranky
usury
zephyr
ruminate
irascible
11. To dry out
extirpate
ancillary
desiccate
gainsay
12. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
milieu
discomfit
petulant
junta
13. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
wont
matriculate
reticent
repartee
14. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
ennui
feral
abscond
15. Favorable to health
petulant
veracious
salubrious
gamin
16. Disgraceful and dishonorable
recidivism
ignominious
sinuous
antipodal
17. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
chicanery
apostasy
vainglorious
sui generis
18. Relating to dress or fashion
flagellate
malfeasance
sartorial
doff
19. Boldness - rashness - audacity
adjure
temerity
provenance
pallid
20. In title only
titular
byzantine
iniquitous
hoary
21. Faithless - untrustworthy
ruminate
perfidious
officious
rife
22. Truthful - honest
compunction
extirpate
veracious
piquant
23. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
paradigm
extirpate
gestalt
impugn
24. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
husbandry
alacrity
castigate
alchemy
25. A procession - a group of attendants
acquit
cortege
reprobate
bon vivant
26. Hardworking - busy - diligent
fusillade
assiduous
ossify
maudlin
27. Payment - recompense
abeyance
irascible
profligate
remuneration
28. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
discomfit
doggerel
impervious
apocryphal
29. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
dilettante
panacea
patina
abscond
30. To tolerate - to put up with something
comport
sangfroid
stalwart
brook
31. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
officious
petulant
perorate
evanescent
32. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
determinism
reticent
perspicacious
recidivism
33. Deception or trickery
chicanery
hidebound
accolade
titular
34. To bewilder - to puzzle
acquit
nonplus
dichotomy
scofflaw
35. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
fusillade
perspicacious
quiescence
doff
36. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
implacable
elan
penury
gestalt
37. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
sartorial
puissance
saturnine
doff
38. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
titular
peregrination
circumlocution
officious
39. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
redoubtable
gainsay
assignation
reticent
40. To swing back and forth
secrete
contentious
oscillate
ignominious
41. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
decimate
aegis
miasma
cabal
42. Dishonest - deceitful
abstinence
akimbo
mendacious
elan
43. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
cachet
prepossess
concomitant
perfunctory
44. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
assiduous
nabob
perquisite
comport
45. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
juggernaut
cogitate
scofflaw
viscosity
46. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
portent
perfunctory
tony
sycophant
47. State of rest or inactivity
malfeasance
adumbrate
quiescence
rapprochement
48. Squalid - a slovenly woman
slatternly
sinuous
venerate
wastrel
49. Pungent - charmingly provocative
ascetic
piquant
scotch
nonplus
50. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
zeitgeist
flagellate
ignominious