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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. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
deleterious
sententious
milieu
contentious
2. A temporary encampment
foment
bivouac
bathos
ethnocentric
3. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
irascible
rife
bandy
assiduous
4. Coming into existence - being born
opus
piquant
intransigent
nascent
5. Honesty - uprightness
evanescent
probity
remuneration
timorous
6. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
assignation
veracious
acquit
abstinence
7. Environment - surroundings
levee
conflagration
milieu
desiccate
8. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
onus
contentious
behemoth
ascetic
9. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
covet
feral
venerate
erudite
10. To stir up - to incite
foment
moribund
rout
effete
11. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
decimate
effete
synergy
provenance
12. The act of repeating an offense
gamin
elliptical
recidivism
ersatz
13. A cave explorer
prescient
patois
spate
spelunker
14. Fawning - subservient - servile
viscosity
obsequious
sally
moribund
15. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
dossier
lassitude
diurnal
nepotism
16. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
wizened
recalcitrant
decimate
discomfit
17. Squalid - a slovenly woman
prescient
slatternly
adumbrate
officious
18. Award or honor - high praise
accolade
perfunctory
diurnal
tendentious
19. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
recondite
accouterments
veneer
tendentious
20. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
prescient
provenance
habeas corpus
temerity
21. Protection - patronage
toothsome
opprobrious
ignominious
aegis
22. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
patina
sylvan
phantasm
vitriolic
23. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
panacea
gainsay
reticent
gestalt
24. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
encomium
aegis
supercilious
malfeasance
25. A wealthy - influential person
nabob
repartee
prurient
spate
26. One who adheres strictly to rules
fauna
mirthful
itinerant
martinet
27. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
junta
prescient
covet
behemoth
28. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
tony
verdant
bowdlerize
chimerical
29. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
undulate
nihilism
imbroglio
habeas corpus
30. To impede - restrain - hamper
vacuous
fetter
lassitude
impecunious
31. Fearful - easily frightened
hoary
phlegmatic
timorous
simper
32. Having foresight
wizened
lassitude
prescient
habeas corpus
33. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
adjure
impugn
mellifluous
provenance
34. Merry - gleeful
irascible
extirpate
mirthful
ribald
35. A creative work - musical composition
bandy
opus
saturnine
cataclysm
36. A model or example
paradigm
perfidious
exemplar
rout
37. Common - vulgar - low class
myopia
enervate
plebeian
diurnal
38. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
recalcitrant
aegis
wastrel
simper
39. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
libation
onus
sententious
secrete
40. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
salubrious
fauna
castigate
opus
41. Pungent - charmingly provocative
maudlin
pregnant
piquant
feral
42. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
myopia
homeopathy
iniquitous
impugn
43. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
impugn
mercurial
bilious
onerous
44. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
panacea
scofflaw
dulcet
covet
45. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
elan
nabob
zeitgeist
clout
46. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
secrete
perfunctory
recalcitrant
reprobate
47. An inferior substitute
protean
ersatz
bathos
nonplus
48. Careful - cautious - wary
chary
nonplus
trice
abscond
49. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
prowess
sycophant
plebeian
bilious
50. To smile foolishly
extirpate
antipodal
simper
martinet