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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. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
palliate
redoubtable
slatternly
rapprochement
2. A fake medication
gestalt
puissance
placebo
histrionic
3. Stingy
erudite
parsimonious
bowdlerize
petulant
4. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
leitmotif
vagary
exigent
lassitude
5. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
philistine
encomium
determinism
sylvan
6. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
machination
miasma
ennui
recondite
7. Harmful
dichotomy
deleterious
chary
sally
8. Hot-tempered - cranky
temerity
irascible
depredate
panacea
9. To deviate from the truth
trice
onus
macerate
prevaricate
10. A file of documents - letters and records
garrulous
dossier
mordant
ensconce
11. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
rarefied
exemplar
shibboleth
bowdlerize
12. Whim - an unpredictable action
vagary
dichotomy
adjure
reprobate
13. Being in a dying or decaying condition
moribund
homeopathy
brook
interregnum
14. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
oscillate
decimate
sententious
perspicacious
15. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
evanescent
patois
viscosity
obsequious
16. Payment - recompense
mellifluous
alchemy
remuneration
truculent
17. A sudden outburst
spelunker
spate
matriculate
disquiet
18. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
nirvana
descry
aggrieve
shibboleth
19. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
insouciant
philistine
descry
prowess
20. To muse upon
punctilious
garrulous
remuneration
ruminate
21. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
doff
mordant
ersatz
irascible
22. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
evanescent
rout
pluralism
obdurate
23. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
striated
prepossess
ethnocentric
alacrity
24. Able to walk or move about
ensconce
matriculate
prurient
ambulatory
25. An intimate group of people with a common interest
itinerant
coterie
prepossess
timorous
26. Protection - patronage
aegis
conflagration
ancillary
garrulous
27. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
provenance
petulant
leitmotif
reprobate
28. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
besmirch
sylvan
histrionic
myopia
29. Influence - a forceful blow
rife
clout
mercurial
rapprochement
30. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
discomfit
undulate
sylvan
slatternly
31. To swing back and forth
trice
vacuous
oscillate
elan
32. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
mendacious
simper
castigate
undulate
33. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
conflagration
acquit
chimerical
malapropism
34. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
lassitude
myopia
trice
slatternly
35. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
deleterious
ignominious
contentious
ersatz
36. To dry out
compunction
belie
desiccate
bathos
37. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
onerous
scotch
portent
nonplus
38. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
elliptical
profligate
ethnocentric
ersatz
39. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
encomium
zephyr
oeuvre
neophyte
40. To expose political misconduct
muckrake
profligate
truculent
vitriolic
41. Vulgar or indecent language
ameliorate
ribald
implacable
dilettante
42. Without money - penniless
wastrel
undulate
impecunious
niggardly
43. Having foresight
assignation
belie
prescient
fey
44. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
sylvan
sycophant
toothsome
mendacious
45. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
castigate
flagellate
implacable
lassitude
46. Forest-like - wooded
sartorial
draconian
sylvan
bumptious
47. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
penultimate
paradigm
feral
prescient
48. To make uneasy
zephyr
calumny
disquiet
opprobrious
49. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
assignation
prevaricate
philistine
venerate
50. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
temporize
dissipate
panegyric
conflagration