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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. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
obsequious
tendentious
savant
acquit
2. An apparition - phantom
foment
scofflaw
phantasm
accouterments
3. Sneaky - secret
surreptitious
malfeasance
itinerant
dulcet
4. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
fauna
supercilious
panegyric
impervious
5. Hard to understand or grasp
rubric
plebeian
abstruse
ancillary
6. To kill or destroy a large part of
spate
impecunious
wont
decimate
7. To give off - to conceal
secrete
umbrage
synergy
nascent
8. The mood or spirit of the times
bumptious
zeitgeist
cavil
munificent
9. Careful - cautious - wary
profligate
chary
somnolent
gamin
10. Power - strength
salubrious
puissance
imbroglio
sallow
11. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
fusillade
prurient
assiduous
12. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
milieu
profligate
akimbo
coterie
13. Deception or trickery
malfeasance
recidivism
repartee
chicanery
14. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
niggardly
oscillate
patois
abrogate
15. Lacking color - wan
pallid
acquit
bumptious
ruminate
16. Fertile - productive - fruitful
viscosity
impugn
miasma
fecund
17. Harmful
depredate
moribund
deleterious
mellifluous
18. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
apocryphal
usury
calumny
19. Being in a dying or decaying condition
ethnocentric
zeitgeist
imbroglio
moribund
20. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
lassitude
simper
leitmotif
muckrake
21. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
sallow
cogitate
simper
philistine
22. Custom - habit
peregrination
mellifluous
ameliorate
wont
23. A temporary encampment
muckrake
sagacious
penultimate
bivouac
24. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
libidinous
privation
iniquitous
shibboleth
25. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ribald
petulant
ensconce
fetter
26. Wildly fanciful - absurd
castigate
levee
chimerical
ignominious
27. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
deleterious
abstruse
recondite
acquit
28. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
nepotism
desiccate
anomie
interregnum
29. Having foresight
nonplus
vagary
prescient
bon vivant
30. All knowing - infinite awareness
malapropism
omniscient
ambulatory
penultimate
31. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
feckless
pallid
perspicacious
leitmotif
32. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
myopia
alacrity
reticent
33. A eulogy or expression of high praise
apogee
leitmotif
hoary
encomium
34. Winding - having many curves
sinuous
wizened
circumlocution
determinism
35. The act of repeating an offense
husbandry
recidivism
miasma
fecund
36. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
behemoth
miasma
saturnine
doggerel
37. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
shibboleth
sylvan
apoplexy
surreptitious
38. To make uneasy
gainsay
disquiet
macerate
feckless
39. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
mercurial
patina
clout
accolade
40. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
dissipate
gerrymander
redoubtable
onus
41. Disgraceful and dishonorable
wont
halitosis
ignominious
rarefied
42. An excellent model - a typical example
neophyte
discomfit
exemplar
pregnant
43. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
elan
sagacious
dossier
44. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
byzantine
effete
calumny
diaspora
45. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
impecunious
desiccate
opprobrious
alacrity
46. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
probity
leitmotif
maudlin
apocryphal
47. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
capricious
recalcitrant
paradigm
trice
48. One who adheres strictly to rules
covet
habeas corpus
martinet
ensconce
49. Advancing a point of view - biased
evanescent
tendentious
phlegmatic
descry
50. A cave explorer
fecund
feral
philistine
spelunker