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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
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 street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
shibboleth
timorous
gamin
petulant
2. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
penultimate
sinuous
panacea
3. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
akimbo
alacrity
abrogate
bacchanal
4. To impede - restrain - hamper
umbrage
impecunious
malfeasance
fetter
5. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
wont
officious
halitosis
6. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
habeas corpus
exigent
recalcitrant
decimate
7. Drowsy - sleepy
comport
effete
desiccate
somnolent
8. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
feral
quiescence
bowdlerize
machination
9. Displeasure or resentment - shade
rife
sally
umbrage
vagary
10. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
spelunker
castigate
hidebound
ascetic
11. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
apocryphal
homeopathy
pregnant
mordant
12. A eulogy or expression of high praise
contentious
bon vivant
gamin
encomium
13. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
assignation
behemoth
depredate
remuneration
14. Relating to dress or fashion
sartorial
rife
determinism
omniscient
15. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
wont
reprobate
gesticulate
vicarious
16. Division into two often contradictory parts
dichotomy
repartee
covet
adumbrate
17. Accompanying - attending - going along with
iniquitous
belie
ameliorate
concomitant
18. Burden - blame - obligation
ambulatory
onus
fetter
garrulous
19. Slander - deliberate false statements
calumny
placebo
cogitate
foment
20. A file of documents - letters and records
espy
junta
zeitgeist
dossier
21. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
venerate
munificent
nonplus
raffish
22. Able to walk or move about
ambulatory
bon vivant
panacea
garrulous
23. To honor - to worship - to respect
oscillate
prowess
scofflaw
venerate
24. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
bathos
impugn
akimbo
calumny
25. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
miasma
disquiet
ignominious
extirpate
26. Sweetly flowing
miasma
itinerant
mellifluous
prevaricate
27. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
panegyric
nonplus
machination
28. Deception or trickery
zeitgeist
penultimate
chicanery
itinerant
29. Subsidiary - subordinate
ancillary
facetious
plebeian
machination
30. A moment - a short period of time
sui generis
trice
fauna
vacuous
31. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
dichotomy
imbroglio
garrulous
arbiter
32. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
accouterments
opprobrious
mirthful
diaspora
33. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
nirvana
doff
mordant
ascetic
34. Hot-tempered - cranky
irascible
sally
bon vivant
perquisite
35. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
bumptious
cogitate
acquit
nabob
36. To distress - to mistreat
trice
aggrieve
ancillary
besmirch
37. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
castigate
simper
juggernaut
rubric
38. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
mirthful
officious
sangfroid
sinuous
39. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
mellifluous
fusillade
pregnant
macerate
40. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
besmirch
accolade
spelunker
prowess
41. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
undulate
perorate
gamin
privation
42. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
elliptical
ensconce
provenance
doff
43. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
ersatz
umbrage
inchoate
sui generis
44. Heading - title - category
facetious
abrogate
rubric
apoplexy
45. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
miasma
striated
effete
phantasm
46. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
implacable
redoubtable
ossify
onerous
47. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
husbandry
puissance
abstruse
synergy
48. Moving from place to place
perfunctory
lope
itinerant
shibboleth
49. In title only
titular
patois
rarefied
synergy
50. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
pluralism
castigate
mordant
ersatz