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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.
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. To muse upon
scotch
timorous
trice
ruminate
2. Harmful
bon vivant
nepotism
deleterious
gainsay
3. A beginner - a novice
neophyte
juggernaut
pallid
encomium
4. Lending money at a high interest rate
onus
usury
mordant
rarefied
5. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
ersatz
insouciant
rapprochement
rout
6. Able to walk or move about
ambulatory
somnolent
bacchanal
redoubtable
7. Sneaky - secret
interregnum
surreptitious
wizened
spate
8. To wish for with envy
clout
vainglorious
covet
neophyte
9. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
castigate
malapropism
habeas corpus
brook
10. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
panegyric
veneer
salubrious
niggardly
11. A wealthy - influential person
oeuvre
inveterate
zeitgeist
nabob
12. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
insouciant
toothsome
pallid
dilettante
13. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
vagary
bon vivant
ascetic
mirthful
14. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
savant
neophyte
placebo
15. Careful - cautious - wary
sui generis
chary
spelunker
milieu
16. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
spelunker
feral
dossier
propinquity
17. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
gesticulate
vitriolic
pluralism
erudite
18. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
apocryphal
determinism
savant
doff
19. To invest with authority - to brace
veracious
gird
temporize
recalcitrant
20. To gesture - especially when speaking
nihilism
gesticulate
bathos
fauna
21. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
prurient
zaftig
titular
shibboleth
22. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
descry
mendacious
decimate
sinuous
23. A file of documents - letters and records
quiescence
perquisite
surreptitious
dossier
24. Having foresight
hoary
ethnocentric
prescient
mordant
25. Relating to dress or fashion
perfidious
sartorial
bathos
pregnant
26. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
decimate
protean
miasma
27. Vulgar or indecent language
calumny
nonplus
ribald
adjure
28. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
calumny
inchoate
adjure
aegis
29. Advancing a point of view - biased
tendentious
opprobrious
cogitate
akimbo
30. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
mercurial
maudlin
peregrination
31. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
calumny
recondite
adumbrate
verdant
32. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
sallow
apocryphal
munificent
rife
33. Whim - an unpredictable action
vagary
cabal
placebo
anathema
34. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
extirpate
toothsome
largess
moribund
35. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
doff
nascent
sententious
endemic
36. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
determinism
opprobrious
puissance
wastrel
37. Overly sentimental
maudlin
parsimonious
comport
undulate
38. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
fauna
privation
provenance
aggrieve
39. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
antipodal
propinquity
exemplar
capricious
40. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
forswear
sally
ambulatory
habeas corpus
41. Dishonest - deceitful
accouterments
nonplus
perspicacious
mendacious
42. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
byzantine
dulcet
fey
debacle
43. Fawning - subservient - servile
decimate
obsequious
bandy
rife
44. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
bumptious
vacuous
accolade
alchemy
45. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
placebo
ameliorate
ossify
accouterments
46. Stingy - small in a mean way
niggardly
husbandry
punctilious
vagary
47. Evil - unjust
munificent
iniquitous
mellifluous
recalcitrant
48. An apparition - phantom
miasma
phantasm
malapropism
mirthful
49. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
abrogate
panacea
apogee
bon vivant
50. An intimate group of people with a common interest
nirvana
coterie
ruminate
bivouac