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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. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
patois
cortege
profligate
bumptious
2. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
omniscient
exemplar
protean
savant
3. To kill or destroy a large part of
temerity
salubrious
erudite
decimate
4. Vulgar or indecent language
prepossess
ribald
vitriolic
peregrination
5. To smile foolishly
abstinence
simper
omnivorous
diaspora
6. Relating to dress or fashion
palliate
sartorial
striated
perquisite
7. Occurring during the day - happens every day
diurnal
vitriolic
machination
impervious
8. Bad breath
prescient
gesticulate
prevaricate
halitosis
9. A beginner - a novice
erudite
assignation
repartee
neophyte
10. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
nirvana
plebeian
abrogate
husbandry
11. Overly sentimental
peregrination
besmirch
maudlin
elan
12. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
sartorial
sagacious
assignation
feckless
13. Turmoil
synergy
sturm and drang
surreptitious
savant
14. Hardworking - busy - diligent
dissipate
assiduous
rubric
reprobate
15. To put an end to
husbandry
sylvan
pluralism
scotch
16. One who is continually breaking the law
gesticulate
nepotism
scofflaw
noisome
17. Influence - a forceful blow
bon vivant
impervious
clout
wont
18. Generous
somnolent
vainglorious
munificent
timorous
19. An inferior substitute
ersatz
lope
quiescence
diaspora
20. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
sallow
macerate
mirthful
evanescent
21. A drunken reveler or orgy
fauna
bacchanal
rife
rapprochement
22. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
ennui
temporize
toothsome
vacuous
23. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
puissance
acquit
ameliorate
officious
24. To give off - to conceal
secrete
decimate
impervious
cataclysm
25. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
sangfroid
recondite
itinerant
facetious
26. A cave explorer
supercilious
probity
spelunker
encomium
27. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
dulcet
spelunker
reprobate
prowess
28. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
gainsay
wont
propinquity
dissipate
29. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
nascent
prescient
mordant
30. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
bivouac
gestalt
penultimate
fey
31. Heading - title - category
nirvana
facetious
rubric
punctilious
32. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
rubric
ethnocentric
sycophant
behemoth
33. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
privation
machination
concomitant
contentious
34. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
miasma
temerity
anomie
nonplus
35. Payment - recompense
philistine
endemic
remuneration
contentious
36. Wise - shrewd
parsimonious
petulant
chicanery
sagacious
37. Marked with thin lines or grooves
striated
pregnant
vagary
doggerel
38. Shriveled - withered
comport
habeas corpus
panegyric
wizened
39. Sneaky - secret
hidebound
zephyr
descry
surreptitious
40. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
calumny
putrefy
prepossess
41. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
oscillate
propinquity
nirvana
hidebound
42. To gesture - especially when speaking
sylvan
gesticulate
profligate
stalwart
43. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
implacable
espy
feckless
sturm and drang
44. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
gesticulate
parsimonious
sturm and drang
bandy
45. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
prescient
reticent
temporize
bandy
46. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
penury
accolade
miasma
onerous
47. A judge - one who decides
repartee
hidebound
chary
arbiter
48. Environment - surroundings
toothsome
putrefy
onerous
milieu
49. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
apocryphal
mellifluous
endemic
venerate
50. A sudden outburst
accolade
antipodal
spate
oeuvre