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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. Wise - shrewd
inchoate
tony
sagacious
machination
2. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
anomie
assignation
protean
rarefied
3. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
gerrymander
prowess
chary
savant
4. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
sagacious
gamin
philistine
sangfroid
5. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
prescient
vicarious
disquiet
tendentious
6. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
obsequious
antipodal
flagellate
pluralism
7. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
impervious
abrogate
besmirch
perorate
8. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
homeopathy
sui generis
ancillary
9. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
implacable
titular
ensconce
byzantine
10. Retract - renounce or recant
mellifluous
forswear
bivouac
cataclysm
11. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
nabob
byzantine
anathema
12. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
anomie
apoplexy
ignominious
gesticulate
13. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
implacable
sally
accolade
14. In title only
coterie
lassitude
surreptitious
titular
15. Shriveled - withered
peregrination
wizened
omniscient
vitriolic
16. Full-figured - plump
zaftig
niggardly
assignation
doggerel
17. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
iniquitous
histrionic
lassitude
perorate
18. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
palliate
clout
syllogism
punctilious
19. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
hoary
dossier
largess
muckrake
20. Overly sentimental
maudlin
titular
perfidious
ennui
21. Hostile - aggressive - savage
rapprochement
juggernaut
truculent
onus
22. Harmful
niggardly
deleterious
habeas corpus
accolade
23. Division into two often contradictory parts
husbandry
dichotomy
sallow
descry
24. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
sylvan
undulate
doff
histrionic
25. An apparition - phantom
levee
propinquity
phantasm
hidebound
26. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
rife
besmirch
abrogate
impecunious
27. Truthful - honest
saturnine
diurnal
veracious
onus
28. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
abstruse
enervate
akimbo
portent
29. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
elliptical
anomie
implacable
macerate
30. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
gerrymander
impervious
putrefy
myopia
31. Empty - lacking intelligence
putrefy
alchemy
calumny
vacuous
32. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
reticent
scotch
abeyance
sinuous
33. State of rest or inactivity
quiescence
secrete
veneer
fecund
34. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
veracious
titular
palliate
alchemy
35. Slander - deliberate false statements
truculent
zephyr
calumny
arbiter
36. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
ancillary
officious
veracious
philistine
37. To dry out
desiccate
martinet
temporize
miasma
38. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
byzantine
vainglorious
scofflaw
ascetic
39. Hot-tempered - cranky
irascible
halitosis
macerate
chimerical
40. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
rife
sycophant
ribald
akimbo
41. A system of natural healing
oscillate
conflagration
recidivism
homeopathy
42. Occurring during the day - happens every day
abstruse
reticent
fusillade
diurnal
43. To give off - to conceal
determinism
secrete
anathema
foment
44. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
fey
bandy
evanescent
bon vivant
45. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
akimbo
brook
petulant
endemic
46. Stingy - small in a mean way
lassitude
niggardly
protean
temporize
47. A remedy that cures everything
iniquitous
panacea
macerate
sturm and drang
48. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
comport
elliptical
facetious
abstinence
49. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
sui generis
sartorial
adumbrate
toothsome
50. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
fetter
bilious
vicarious
onerous