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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. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
brook
titular
descry
muckrake
2. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
exigent
tony
covet
abstruse
3. A file of documents - letters and records
decimate
dossier
onerous
obsequious
4. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
evanescent
bivouac
effete
hidebound
5. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
ennui
oeuvre
libidinous
sinuous
6. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
probity
saturnine
ascetic
feckless
7. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
rarefied
scofflaw
encomium
undulate
8. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
officious
hoary
clout
sallow
9. Hostile - aggressive - savage
sui generis
chicanery
truculent
fey
10. A large - disastrous fire
conflagration
dissipate
phantasm
libation
11. Power - strength
oeuvre
placebo
titular
puissance
12. Vulgar or indecent language
rarefied
juggernaut
ribald
sylvan
13. A beginner - a novice
neophyte
enervate
synergy
onerous
14. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
reticent
junta
alchemy
lope
15. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
extirpate
prurient
tendentious
paradigm
16. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
temporize
cachet
abstruse
hidebound
17. To distress - to mistreat
cogitate
aggrieve
aegis
raffish
18. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
reprobate
philistine
phlegmatic
conflagration
19. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
redoubtable
vainglorious
apostasy
calumny
20. Talkative
prurient
belie
punctilious
garrulous
21. Winding - having many curves
enervate
sinuous
ascetic
vitriolic
22. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
halitosis
patina
clout
redoubtable
23. Lacking color - wan
concomitant
cavil
pallid
ambulatory
24. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
dilettante
dulcet
moribund
25. Occurring during the day - happens every day
reprobate
gerrymander
diurnal
comport
26. Advancing a point of view - biased
ameliorate
adjure
tendentious
shibboleth
27. Payment - recompense
remuneration
libation
erudite
reticent
28. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
stalwart
putrefy
espy
cogitate
29. Generous
ennui
munificent
diurnal
cortege
30. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
ribald
deleterious
mirthful
opprobrious
31. Retract - renounce or recant
behemoth
forswear
aegis
abrogate
32. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
lope
philistine
omnivorous
gainsay
33. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
anathema
opus
obsequious
elliptical
34. Urgent - demands prompt action
viscosity
muckrake
hoary
exigent
35. A dominant or recurring theme
brook
vainglorious
leitmotif
officious
36. Division into two often contradictory parts
dichotomy
antipodal
dissipate
facetious
37. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
prepossess
salubrious
assignation
ennui
38. A model or example
paradigm
gainsay
junta
desiccate
39. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
diurnal
propinquity
stalwart
hoary
40. Truthful - honest
veracious
inchoate
abeyance
dilettante
41. Turmoil
abeyance
bumptious
accolade
sturm and drang
42. A sudden outburst
assignation
spate
milieu
punctilious
43. Native - belonging to a specific region
dissipate
endemic
anathema
striated
44. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
diurnal
prowess
redoubtable
interregnum
45. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
abscond
ancillary
privation
matriculate
46. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
gesticulate
syllogism
sinuous
penultimate
47. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
diaspora
mordant
zeitgeist
byzantine
48. Next to last
matriculate
vagary
dichotomy
penultimate
49. To expose political misconduct
muckrake
sententious
concomitant
calumny
50. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
vagary
truculent
iniquitous
alacrity