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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
venerate
sartorial
habeas corpus
pregnant
2. Coming into existence - being born
concomitant
nascent
munificent
redoubtable
3. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
sally
accouterments
dichotomy
libation
4. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
lassitude
diurnal
accouterments
doggerel
5. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
erudite
niggardly
ribald
palliate
6. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
undulate
elliptical
fusillade
7. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
castigate
obdurate
abscond
patina
8. Custom - habit
wont
zaftig
nepotism
evanescent
9. Disgraceful and dishonorable
discomfit
capricious
ignominious
cavil
10. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
depredate
implacable
sally
rapprochement
11. A disaster or violent breakdown
doff
debacle
gerrymander
wastrel
12. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
nabob
belie
enervate
cachet
13. To behave
comport
secrete
sangfroid
plebeian
14. Payment - recompense
remuneration
rubric
iniquitous
alchemy
15. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
tony
prevaricate
paradigm
ambulatory
16. Bad breath
recidivism
privation
libidinous
halitosis
17. Relating to dress or fashion
officious
sartorial
dissipate
fetter
18. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
cachet
hoary
miasma
sangfroid
19. Division into two often contradictory parts
officious
gamin
dichotomy
abstinence
20. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
ribald
obdurate
mellifluous
bowdlerize
21. Generous
munificent
somnolent
parsimonious
contentious
22. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
castigate
akimbo
fusillade
striated
23. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
impervious
exemplar
elan
nabob
24. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
sine qua non
flagellate
depredate
gestalt
25. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
philistine
piquant
noisome
foment
26. One who adheres strictly to rules
martinet
petulant
perfidious
synergy
27. Environment - surroundings
milieu
opus
quiescence
puissance
28. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
cachet
perfidious
phlegmatic
zaftig
29. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
bumptious
somnolent
perorate
husbandry
30. Hardworking - busy - diligent
perspicacious
sallow
assiduous
accolade
31. Harmful
deleterious
determinism
putrefy
martinet
32. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
muckrake
bathos
bilious
ribald
33. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ignominious
usury
ethnocentric
contentious
34. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
muckrake
descry
wont
maudlin
35. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
profligate
reprobate
antipodal
muckrake
36. Accompanying - attending - going along with
concomitant
shibboleth
chary
elan
37. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
zephyr
timorous
scotch
recondite
38. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
chimerical
evanescent
compunction
supercilious
39. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
itinerant
facetious
ennui
dissipate
40. Nearness in place or time - kinship
propinquity
chimerical
fusillade
vagary
41. Deception or trickery
determinism
leitmotif
chicanery
sartorial
42. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
ignominious
miasma
undulate
perorate
43. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
alchemy
philistine
synergy
extirpate
44. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
opprobrious
panacea
reprobate
wastrel
45. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
protean
ambulatory
comport
perquisite
46. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
feckless
palliate
anathema
belie
47. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
debacle
diaspora
supercilious
48. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
prepossess
lope
diaspora
somnolent
49. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
abrogate
obdurate
dissipate
raffish
50. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
rife
bilious
anomie