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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. Advancing a point of view - biased
bacchanal
probity
patina
tendentious
2. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
redoubtable
adjure
gerrymander
gird
3. Retract - renounce or recant
undulate
onus
forswear
spelunker
4. Nearness in place or time - kinship
elan
propinquity
piquant
doggerel
5. Wise - shrewd
sagacious
inchoate
chimerical
impugn
6. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
ennui
prurient
somnolent
7. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
libation
truculent
antipodal
deleterious
8. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
irascible
husbandry
wastrel
dossier
9. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
castigate
cachet
anathema
hoary
10. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
depredate
vagary
akimbo
bon vivant
11. Sweetly flowing
nihilism
contentious
prepossess
mellifluous
12. To stir up - to incite
determinism
foment
feral
encomium
13. Oval - obscure in expression
vicarious
saturnine
interregnum
elliptical
14. A model or example
evanescent
abeyance
nepotism
paradigm
15. Being in a dying or decaying condition
moribund
fusillade
profligate
venerate
16. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
bivouac
saturnine
itinerant
descry
17. To run at a steady - easy pace
adjure
accolade
lope
portent
18. To tolerate - to put up with something
brook
abstruse
ensconce
plebeian
19. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
gainsay
syllogism
reprobate
patina
20. Protection - patronage
gird
ennui
martinet
aegis
21. A procession - a group of attendants
moribund
gamin
cortege
timorous
22. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
rarefied
mordant
apoplexy
juggernaut
23. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
ribald
habeas corpus
rapprochement
ennui
24. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
slatternly
descry
puissance
flagellate
25. To deviate from the truth
dilettante
exigent
prevaricate
decimate
26. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
phlegmatic
lassitude
shibboleth
apostasy
27. Marked with thin lines or grooves
fecund
neophyte
striated
veneer
28. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
inchoate
fey
behemoth
abstinence
29. Drowsy - sleepy
fetter
perspicacious
striated
somnolent
30. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
provenance
secrete
bacchanal
nepotism
31. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
aegis
iniquitous
peregrination
largess
32. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
gainsay
recondite
nepotism
feral
33. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
chimerical
raffish
endemic
husbandry
34. Careful - cautious - wary
exemplar
moribund
chary
coterie
35. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
philistine
alchemy
doggerel
viscosity
36. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
concomitant
ruminate
leitmotif
histrionic
37. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
interregnum
cavil
malfeasance
panacea
38. Relating to dress or fashion
trice
sartorial
munificent
acquit
39. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
sylvan
probity
alchemy
punctilious
40. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
hoary
implacable
spate
aegis
41. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
dilettante
compunction
abeyance
intransigent
42. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
circumlocution
rout
perfidious
ambulatory
43. A creative work - musical composition
opus
fecund
levee
petulant
44. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
mellifluous
omniscient
raffish
45. A dominant or recurring theme
leitmotif
gird
conflagration
calumny
46. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
mendacious
oeuvre
apoplexy
byzantine
47. A beginner - a novice
assiduous
sturm and drang
neophyte
sui generis
48. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
flagellate
maudlin
compunction
encomium
49. Fawning - subservient - servile
conflagration
obsequious
machination
cavil
50. To wish for with envy
flagellate
zaftig
habeas corpus
covet