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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
antipodal
juggernaut
alacrity
2. Merry - gleeful
officious
fecund
mirthful
gesticulate
3. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
putrefy
pregnant
temerity
mercurial
4. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
prepossess
conflagration
vicarious
5. Faithless - untrustworthy
halitosis
behemoth
perfidious
alacrity
6. To attack the integrity of something
garrulous
determinism
tony
impugn
7. To muse upon
ruminate
facetious
gamin
apostasy
8. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
shibboleth
covet
sylvan
interregnum
9. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
malfeasance
hidebound
mirthful
bon vivant
10. Overly sentimental
espy
concomitant
parsimonious
maudlin
11. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
lassitude
determinism
hoary
malapropism
12. An illegal act especially by a public official
neophyte
accolade
malfeasance
mirthful
13. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
effete
dichotomy
prowess
deleterious
14. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
covet
provenance
privation
mellifluous
15. Sneaky - secret
anomie
synergy
surreptitious
pallid
16. To tolerate - to put up with something
sartorial
onerous
ruminate
brook
17. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
adumbrate
recondite
saturnine
noisome
18. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
leitmotif
recondite
recalcitrant
fecund
19. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
insouciant
gestalt
libation
implacable
20. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
noisome
alacrity
philistine
castigate
21. Bad breath
patina
halitosis
anomie
peregrination
22. To impede - restrain - hamper
halitosis
fetter
sinuous
erudite
23. A drunken reveler or orgy
zephyr
elliptical
viscosity
bacchanal
24. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
nabob
pregnant
feral
coterie
25. Deception or trickery
chicanery
synergy
bon vivant
placebo
26. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
syllogism
inchoate
cabal
saturnine
27. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
phantasm
zaftig
obsequious
28. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
temporize
verdant
omniscient
privation
29. Hostile - aggressive - savage
prurient
fey
malapropism
truculent
30. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perspicacious
omniscient
cabal
perfunctory
31. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
spelunker
rife
panegyric
32. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
prevaricate
ersatz
dulcet
viscosity
33. A beginner - a novice
homeopathy
neophyte
impecunious
decimate
34. Occurring during the day - happens every day
diurnal
salubrious
lope
itinerant
35. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
spelunker
perfunctory
cabal
nabob
36. Environment - surroundings
bathos
milieu
elliptical
probity
37. Lending money at a high interest rate
repartee
gestalt
myopia
usury
38. Winding - having many curves
sinuous
supercilious
sylvan
itinerant
39. Advancing a point of view - biased
tendentious
effete
halitosis
belie
40. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
comport
panacea
oscillate
fey
41. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
clout
elan
mendacious
ossify
42. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malapropism
provenance
sartorial
quiescence
43. State of rest or inactivity
quiescence
chary
prevaricate
recondite
44. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
accouterments
junta
comport
oeuvre
45. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
recidivism
dilettante
calumny
fusillade
46. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
patois
nihilism
phlegmatic
47. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
sartorial
erudite
prurient
maudlin
48. Native - belonging to a specific region
ancillary
endemic
ossify
gird
49. A system of natural healing
homeopathy
machination
sententious
aegis
50. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
interregnum
prepossess
irascible
bathos
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