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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. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
raffish
prurient
oscillate
penury
2. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
hoary
gainsay
descry
titular
3. Squalid - a slovenly woman
ethnocentric
panegyric
evanescent
slatternly
4. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
effete
pluralism
byzantine
5. To wish for with envy
bowdlerize
covet
halitosis
scotch
6. Honesty - uprightness
spelunker
bandy
probity
besmirch
7. Moving from place to place
anomie
itinerant
sinuous
martinet
8. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
sangfroid
onerous
doggerel
cortege
9. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
truculent
rarefied
habeas corpus
raffish
10. Protection - patronage
salubrious
comport
aegis
gerrymander
11. Empty - lacking intelligence
remuneration
vacuous
prescient
nascent
12. A model or example
circumlocution
pregnant
paradigm
synergy
13. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
forswear
imbroglio
protean
adumbrate
14. To kill or destroy a large part of
dossier
decimate
recondite
doggerel
15. Favorable to health
neophyte
intransigent
sturm and drang
salubrious
16. Overly sentimental
veracious
toothsome
maudlin
dulcet
17. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
belie
macerate
pluralism
18. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
encomium
brook
stalwart
cachet
19. Boldness - rashness - audacity
malapropism
cogitate
temerity
recalcitrant
20. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
hoary
petulant
assignation
vacuous
21. To stir up - to incite
foment
mellifluous
phantasm
abscond
22. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
reticent
apogee
gamin
philistine
23. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
abrogate
nirvana
nepotism
opus
24. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
ennui
somnolent
doff
malapropism
25. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
foment
adjure
castigate
abstinence
26. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
ribald
ossify
anathema
extirpate
27. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
impervious
nabob
prepossess
quiescence
28. A temporary encampment
perspicacious
raffish
bivouac
simper
29. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
patina
effete
umbrage
sui generis
30. Advancing a point of view - biased
tendentious
ensconce
lope
encomium
31. Lacking color - wan
panegyric
vainglorious
accolade
pallid
32. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
abrogate
opprobrious
sylvan
rapprochement
33. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
sangfroid
palliate
bumptious
akimbo
34. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
petulant
draconian
macerate
machination
35. Accompanying - attending - going along with
nirvana
stalwart
concomitant
cachet
36. A massive - unstoppable object
juggernaut
impervious
sui generis
exemplar
37. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
flagellate
mordant
libation
38. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
feckless
prurient
compunction
dulcet
39. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
obsequious
sycophant
dichotomy
bacchanal
40. Talkative
garrulous
dossier
noisome
oscillate
41. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
largess
panacea
wizened
gerrymander
42. To make uneasy
sallow
libidinous
disquiet
determinism
43. Subsidiary - subordinate
ancillary
venerate
chimerical
mercurial
44. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
alacrity
sylvan
sally
45. Extreme poverty
halitosis
penury
forswear
chimerical
46. Power - strength
extirpate
recidivism
puissance
gerrymander
47. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
mellifluous
forswear
punctilious
bilious
48. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
bivouac
circumlocution
compunction
dissipate
49. Being in a dying or decaying condition
moribund
undulate
husbandry
diurnal
50. Retract - renounce or recant
sartorial
quiescence
forswear
phlegmatic