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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. A creative work - musical composition
toothsome
omniscient
opus
ambulatory
2. A large - disastrous fire
abscond
bumptious
redoubtable
conflagration
3. To invest with authority - to brace
opprobrious
libidinous
veneer
gird
4. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
apostasy
miasma
panegyric
phantasm
5. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
besmirch
obdurate
stalwart
raffish
6. Turmoil
circumlocution
discomfit
sturm and drang
disquiet
7. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
alchemy
obdurate
elliptical
8. Hostile - aggressive - savage
salubrious
truculent
paradigm
implacable
9. Displeasure or resentment - shade
opus
titular
noisome
umbrage
10. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
bathos
perorate
inveterate
castigate
11. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
gesticulate
compunction
ethnocentric
rarefied
12. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
perquisite
repartee
elliptical
elan
13. All knowing - infinite awareness
flagellate
profligate
omniscient
assiduous
14. One who adheres strictly to rules
veracious
gerrymander
martinet
exemplar
15. Subsidiary - subordinate
malapropism
quiescence
ancillary
timorous
16. Wildly fanciful - absurd
oscillate
chimerical
ennui
alchemy
17. To tolerate - to put up with something
brook
arbiter
piquant
salubrious
18. Pungent - charmingly provocative
abstruse
sinuous
piquant
nepotism
19. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
perspicacious
ancillary
undulate
chimerical
20. Stubborn
obdurate
juggernaut
diaspora
recondite
21. To deviate from the truth
impervious
prevaricate
anathema
clout
22. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
apoplexy
interregnum
venerate
hoary
23. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
erudite
besmirch
perorate
fusillade
24. Heading - title - category
nihilism
fusillade
rubric
ennui
25. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
dulcet
diaspora
belie
vitriolic
26. Occurring during the day - happens every day
abeyance
diurnal
salubrious
castigate
27. A temporary encampment
apoplexy
sartorial
usury
bivouac
28. Whim - an unpredictable action
homeopathy
palliate
vagary
concomitant
29. To wish for with envy
slatternly
ersatz
concomitant
covet
30. Honesty - uprightness
miasma
covet
oscillate
probity
31. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
recidivism
perfunctory
spate
cavil
32. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
quiescence
sartorial
vicarious
33. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
levee
sylvan
encomium
34. Environment - surroundings
quiescence
ascetic
milieu
sinuous
35. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
deleterious
veneer
covet
36. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
miasma
obdurate
effete
gestalt
37. Fearful - easily frightened
timorous
ensconce
undulate
flagellate
38. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
antipodal
endemic
vagary
elan
39. One who is continually breaking the law
scofflaw
fetter
lassitude
rout
40. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
bumptious
prurient
antipodal
libation
41. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
milieu
libidinous
prurient
42. Lending money at a high interest rate
gird
usury
habeas corpus
halitosis
43. State of rest or inactivity
quiescence
decimate
doff
martinet
44. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
sturm and drang
provenance
leitmotif
chimerical
45. Retract - renounce or recant
supercilious
obdurate
forswear
macerate
46. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
moribund
redoubtable
petulant
calumny
47. Harmful
secrete
flagellate
deleterious
calumny
48. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
reprobate
calumny
perquisite
cogitate
49. A eulogy or expression of high praise
debacle
compunction
ameliorate
encomium
50. Truthful - honest
veracious
prowess
leitmotif
vagary