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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. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
tendentious
wastrel
titular
insouciant
2. Shriveled - withered
paradigm
fusillade
deleterious
wizened
3. To tolerate - to put up with something
ennui
syllogism
assignation
brook
4. To muse upon
penury
perorate
sylvan
ruminate
5. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
doff
implacable
miasma
erudite
6. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
impugn
macerate
prurient
evanescent
7. To gesture - especially when speaking
gesticulate
assiduous
apostasy
umbrage
8. Division into two often contradictory parts
prescient
dichotomy
viscosity
aggrieve
9. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
bandy
perorate
phlegmatic
phantasm
10. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
fecund
punctilious
ambulatory
officious
11. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
sycophant
cataclysm
adumbrate
veracious
12. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
obdurate
toothsome
enervate
sui generis
13. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
adumbrate
besmirch
bilious
cogitate
14. Custom - habit
wont
protean
ascetic
bacchanal
15. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
zaftig
imbroglio
noisome
16. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
slatternly
clout
rarefied
alchemy
17. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
wizened
redoubtable
opprobrious
alacrity
18. To deny - to speak or act against
putrefy
trice
gainsay
abstinence
19. Urgent - demands prompt action
exigent
mendacious
libidinous
doff
20. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
milieu
circumlocution
reprobate
diaspora
21. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
privation
iniquitous
bon vivant
sangfroid
22. Boldness - rashness - audacity
fusillade
veneer
temerity
iniquitous
23. Accompanying - attending - going along with
concomitant
compunction
descry
surreptitious
24. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
shibboleth
mendacious
plebeian
vicarious
25. Nearness in place or time - kinship
foment
lope
shibboleth
propinquity
26. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
stalwart
anathema
habeas corpus
capricious
27. A dominant or recurring theme
elliptical
leitmotif
hidebound
inchoate
28. To bewilder - to puzzle
gerrymander
ersatz
plebeian
nonplus
29. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
punctilious
ruminate
prevaricate
30. Award or honor - high praise
histrionic
perfidious
accolade
sinuous
31. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
fetter
impervious
compunction
implacable
32. All knowing - infinite awareness
inveterate
omniscient
feral
habeas corpus
33. A procession - a group of attendants
temporize
cortege
sui generis
acquit
34. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
lassitude
deleterious
bacchanal
descry
35. Lustful - lascivious
libidinous
putrefy
plebeian
fey
36. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
penury
dichotomy
aegis
gestalt
37. To wish for with envy
undulate
vicarious
sangfroid
covet
38. Uncompromising - stubborn
chimerical
iniquitous
matriculate
intransigent
39. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
apostasy
veracious
bon vivant
mendacious
40. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
synergy
byzantine
chary
toothsome
41. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
privation
histrionic
tony
panacea
42. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
anomie
byzantine
vicarious
enervate
43. To distress - to mistreat
aggrieve
pluralism
peregrination
vagary
44. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
gestalt
malapropism
cavil
feckless
45. To stir up - to incite
compunction
ascetic
foment
endemic
46. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
rarefied
portent
homeopathy
inveterate
47. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
plebeian
oeuvre
malfeasance
pluralism
48. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
assiduous
apoplexy
irascible
mirthful
49. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
gird
supercilious
elan
extirpate
50. A remedy that cures everything
simper
panacea
bowdlerize
evanescent