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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. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
fey
redoubtable
insouciant
cataclysm
2. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
evanescent
panegyric
acquit
striated
3. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
patois
behemoth
penury
assignation
4. Next to last
ignominious
omnivorous
penultimate
gainsay
5. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
panacea
mordant
acquit
inchoate
6. In title only
titular
perspicacious
truculent
sinuous
7. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
calumny
fusillade
impecunious
sylvan
8. Protection - patronage
anathema
largess
aegis
malfeasance
9. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
mellifluous
aegis
redoubtable
vainglorious
10. Stubborn
cachet
obdurate
wizened
provenance
11. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
usury
toothsome
diurnal
12. The act of repeating an offense
raffish
recidivism
ignominious
sycophant
13. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
usury
feral
malfeasance
shibboleth
14. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
moribund
desiccate
savant
miasma
15. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
propinquity
itinerant
rubric
diaspora
16. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
panacea
sartorial
protean
lassitude
17. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
insouciant
umbrage
usury
gainsay
18. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
homeopathy
slatternly
bon vivant
phlegmatic
19. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
trice
histrionic
syllogism
ossify
20. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
patina
imbroglio
libation
timorous
21. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
patois
miasma
levee
22. Boldness - rashness - audacity
malfeasance
imbroglio
temerity
sangfroid
23. Uncompromising - stubborn
vagary
leitmotif
intransigent
enervate
24. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
neophyte
surreptitious
dissipate
ensconce
25. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
gainsay
profligate
palliate
26. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
martinet
vacuous
assiduous
27. To gesture - especially when speaking
cataclysm
gesticulate
oscillate
belie
28. All knowing - infinite awareness
onerous
omniscient
rubric
dulcet
29. Being in a dying or decaying condition
behemoth
petulant
depredate
moribund
30. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
levee
habeas corpus
recondite
syllogism
31. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
nihilism
desiccate
dulcet
sinuous
32. Forest-like - wooded
byzantine
wizened
fauna
sylvan
33. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
vacuous
zaftig
miasma
recalcitrant
34. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
abeyance
facetious
provenance
piquant
35. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
akimbo
onus
arbiter
exemplar
36. Native - belonging to a specific region
placebo
elan
mordant
endemic
37. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
vacuous
habeas corpus
draconian
itinerant
38. A moment - a short period of time
rubric
perspicacious
trice
sycophant
39. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
machination
hoary
forswear
penultimate
40. To bewilder - to puzzle
recalcitrant
redoubtable
nonplus
impugn
41. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
levee
abeyance
determinism
aggrieve
42. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
toothsome
malapropism
ancillary
myopia
43. Deception or trickery
chicanery
covet
quiescence
leitmotif
44. An apparition - phantom
synergy
impervious
phantasm
anomie
45. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
plebeian
remuneration
stalwart
46. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
arbiter
timorous
penury
47. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
tendentious
adjure
doff
adumbrate
48. Harmful
mellifluous
opprobrious
deleterious
circumlocution
49. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
gerrymander
gainsay
castigate
effete
50. To behave
gestalt
comport
provenance
mordant