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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. Wildly fanciful - absurd
hoary
abeyance
chimerical
spate
2. One who adheres strictly to rules
sylvan
perfidious
fetter
martinet
3. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
flagellate
hoary
accouterments
savant
4. Division into two often contradictory parts
martinet
sagacious
apocryphal
dichotomy
5. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
veracious
comport
clout
viscosity
6. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
rife
enervate
doggerel
besmirch
7. A procession - a group of attendants
akimbo
adjure
cortege
muckrake
8. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
panegyric
munificent
zaftig
byzantine
9. To kill or destroy a large part of
sagacious
husbandry
decimate
reprobate
10. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
niggardly
doggerel
hoary
rubric
11. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
perfunctory
titular
chicanery
12. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
zaftig
capricious
evanescent
besmirch
13. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
sine qua non
rarefied
supercilious
dichotomy
14. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
milieu
striated
protean
timorous
15. Whim - an unpredictable action
dissipate
perfunctory
vagary
protean
16. Full-figured - plump
temerity
gird
philistine
zaftig
17. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
mercurial
dissipate
calumny
extirpate
18. A large - disastrous fire
effete
conflagration
cabal
intransigent
19. Fearful - easily frightened
timorous
officious
accolade
belie
20. Moving from place to place
comport
accouterments
malfeasance
itinerant
21. To bewilder - to puzzle
nonplus
petulant
abeyance
largess
22. Boldness - rashness - audacity
prescient
nihilism
reprobate
temerity
23. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
syllogism
clout
lope
coterie
24. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
belie
ascetic
covet
anathema
25. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
portent
raffish
supercilious
26. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
obdurate
junta
cortege
recondite
27. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
behemoth
tendentious
compunction
juggernaut
28. Forest-like - wooded
feral
verdant
gestalt
sylvan
29. Without money - penniless
prurient
impecunious
chicanery
endemic
30. Evil - unjust
apogee
iniquitous
akimbo
propinquity
31. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
rarefied
undulate
wastrel
32. To swing back and forth
patois
fusillade
protean
oscillate
33. A cave explorer
recondite
matriculate
spelunker
largess
34. A gentle breeze
zephyr
niggardly
feckless
belie
35. A temporary suspension of activity
abeyance
leitmotif
patois
contentious
36. Urgent - demands prompt action
lope
rout
rife
exigent
37. An expedition - wandering
reticent
peregrination
calumny
niggardly
38. Slander - deliberate false statements
calumny
cavil
desiccate
dilettante
39. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
dossier
nihilism
matriculate
palliate
40. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
sui generis
perquisite
elan
vainglorious
41. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
panegyric
stalwart
belie
omniscient
42. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
timorous
pluralism
prescient
effete
43. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
cavil
sylvan
dichotomy
44. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
zephyr
myopia
bowdlerize
bivouac
45. A sudden outburst
spate
apoplexy
opprobrious
determinism
46. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
peregrination
alchemy
viscosity
simper
47. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
probity
cabal
dichotomy
circumlocution
48. A disaster or violent breakdown
capricious
doggerel
dilettante
debacle
49. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
sylvan
akimbo
halitosis
implacable
50. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
abrogate
scofflaw
levee
noisome