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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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1. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
putrefy
anomie
castigate
dichotomy
2. To wish for with envy
zeitgeist
sally
covet
lope
3. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
mendacious
interregnum
raffish
sine qua non
4. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
philistine
ribald
perquisite
5. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
veneer
cachet
hoary
fecund
6. A re-establishment of good relations
adumbrate
rapprochement
prowess
iniquitous
7. Hot-tempered - cranky
vitriolic
concomitant
irascible
titular
8. Hostile - aggressive - savage
scotch
truculent
determinism
philistine
9. A moment - a short period of time
piquant
behemoth
trice
oscillate
10. Shriveled - withered
paradigm
depredate
decimate
wizened
11. Displeasure or resentment - shade
histrionic
gerrymander
umbrage
descry
12. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
draconian
gerrymander
umbrage
toothsome
13. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
sagacious
capricious
phantasm
prescient
14. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
fey
doff
dulcet
recondite
15. Power - strength
enervate
parsimonious
puissance
oeuvre
16. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
striated
belie
assignation
17. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
sine qua non
perfunctory
cachet
truculent
18. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
ennui
punctilious
levee
capricious
19. Harmful
zeitgeist
rapprochement
elliptical
deleterious
20. Urgent - demands prompt action
obsequious
repartee
insouciant
exigent
21. To muse upon
titular
cortege
encomium
ruminate
22. All knowing - infinite awareness
omniscient
abrogate
muckrake
descry
23. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
umbrage
peregrination
levee
abrogate
24. Honesty - uprightness
probity
sallow
ribald
behemoth
25. Wise - shrewd
sagacious
somnolent
pregnant
garrulous
26. Payment - recompense
husbandry
remuneration
savant
zeitgeist
27. A beginner - a novice
ossify
saturnine
neophyte
histrionic
28. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
philistine
apoplexy
viscosity
intransigent
29. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
spelunker
provenance
penultimate
omnivorous
30. To behave
macerate
comport
tendentious
arbiter
31. Boastful - pompous
prevaricate
vainglorious
sui generis
cataclysm
32. A disaster or violent breakdown
debacle
rapprochement
forswear
levee
33. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
gesticulate
officious
rout
hidebound
34. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
levee
nihilism
anomie
undulate
35. Heading - title - category
effete
provenance
rubric
debacle
36. Sweetly flowing
lassitude
mellifluous
sartorial
opus
37. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
sui generis
rife
conflagration
miasma
38. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
patina
myopia
assignation
vagary
39. To invest with authority - to brace
protean
titular
histrionic
gird
40. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
juggernaut
junta
placebo
fusillade
41. To expose political misconduct
noisome
muckrake
obdurate
machination
42. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
byzantine
bumptious
moribund
tendentious
43. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
neophyte
bathos
ethnocentric
ambulatory
44. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
undulate
ancillary
palliate
conflagration
45. Common - vulgar - low class
recondite
circumlocution
plebeian
penury
46. A remedy that cures everything
rapprochement
nonplus
itinerant
panacea
47. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
shibboleth
patois
assiduous
umbrage
48. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
bathos
patina
libidinous
fey
49. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
onus
macerate
oeuvre
anomie
50. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
mordant
gamin
noisome
lope