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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. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
simper
sylvan
effete
2. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
synergy
bumptious
coterie
abrogate
3. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
sine qua non
calumny
macerate
conflagration
4. Hostile - aggressive - savage
effete
apoplexy
truculent
opus
5. A fake medication
placebo
desiccate
quiescence
compunction
6. To tolerate - to put up with something
rarefied
inveterate
brook
patois
7. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
castigate
forswear
habeas corpus
feral
8. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
calumny
hoary
vicarious
stalwart
9. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
plebeian
behemoth
niggardly
irascible
10. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
panegyric
matriculate
implacable
pallid
11. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
fusillade
itinerant
ossify
shibboleth
12. A judge - one who decides
feral
doggerel
rife
arbiter
13. Faithless - untrustworthy
elliptical
assiduous
malfeasance
perfidious
14. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
wont
neophyte
chicanery
circumlocution
15. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
malapropism
remuneration
petulant
fey
16. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
accouterments
elan
apostasy
abrogate
17. Facade - coating - outward appearance
veneer
striated
pregnant
simper
18. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
palliate
synergy
akimbo
impecunious
19. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
spate
placebo
vitriolic
temporize
20. Disgraceful and dishonorable
intransigent
ethnocentric
doff
ignominious
21. Hot-tempered - cranky
prescient
striated
zaftig
irascible
22. Slander - deliberate false statements
draconian
aegis
peregrination
calumny
23. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
prurient
fey
exigent
toothsome
24. To dry out
hidebound
aggrieve
apocryphal
desiccate
25. A gentle breeze
wizened
prurient
zephyr
dossier
26. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
desiccate
ethnocentric
petulant
milieu
27. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
rife
punctilious
sententious
reticent
28. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
depredate
recondite
contentious
halitosis
29. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
neophyte
garrulous
ambulatory
petulant
30. A large - disastrous fire
phlegmatic
leitmotif
conflagration
junta
31. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
apocryphal
effete
milieu
lassitude
32. An inferior substitute
fauna
nonplus
mirthful
ersatz
33. To leave quickly and secretively
undulate
disquiet
behemoth
abscond
34. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
patina
maudlin
rarefied
compunction
35. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
perfunctory
surreptitious
alchemy
behemoth
36. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
arbiter
syllogism
dilettante
dissipate
37. An apparition - phantom
undulate
leitmotif
dulcet
phantasm
38. To smile foolishly
inchoate
tony
vainglorious
simper
39. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
sangfroid
opprobrious
sally
scotch
40. Displeasure or resentment - shade
umbrage
timorous
parsimonious
fey
41. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
gamin
perspicacious
dichotomy
myopia
42. All knowing - infinite awareness
chary
simper
bowdlerize
omniscient
43. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
elan
garrulous
bivouac
macerate
44. Squalid - a slovenly woman
assiduous
deleterious
elliptical
slatternly
45. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
erudite
dulcet
neophyte
perfidious
46. Fawning - subservient - servile
umbrage
omniscient
obsequious
abscond
47. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
capricious
cachet
habeas corpus
debacle
48. Without money - penniless
vagary
myopia
impecunious
ensconce
49. Wildly fanciful - absurd
portent
penultimate
abrogate
chimerical
50. To make uneasy
zeitgeist
disquiet
zaftig
panegyric