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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 run counter to - to show something as false
bathos
omnivorous
belie
ameliorate
2. Animals
mendacious
panegyric
fauna
extirpate
3. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
shibboleth
omnivorous
flagellate
4. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
venerate
timorous
fusillade
5. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
undulate
temerity
vacuous
depredate
6. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
assignation
punctilious
portent
protean
7. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
obsequious
salubrious
fusillade
ruminate
8. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
bon vivant
temporize
recalcitrant
gainsay
9. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
aegis
prepossess
slatternly
privation
10. Fearful - easily frightened
gird
timorous
encomium
ancillary
11. Empty - lacking intelligence
apostasy
libation
vacuous
hidebound
12. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
titular
zaftig
repartee
wizened
13. Uncompromising - stubborn
miasma
nonplus
intransigent
apoplexy
14. A fake medication
coterie
placebo
fusillade
rife
15. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
ossify
evanescent
alchemy
propinquity
16. A temporary encampment
bivouac
dulcet
vitriolic
libidinous
17. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
vainglorious
shibboleth
insouciant
reticent
18. Slander - deliberate false statements
onus
calumny
noisome
savant
19. One who is continually breaking the law
gamin
scofflaw
officious
ameliorate
20. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
alacrity
oeuvre
pregnant
prurient
21. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
oscillate
hidebound
pluralism
milieu
22. A disaster or violent breakdown
savant
debacle
puissance
ruminate
23. Turmoil
sturm and drang
somnolent
prurient
elan
24. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
slatternly
prepossess
pregnant
putrefy
25. Stubborn
opprobrious
opus
obdurate
oscillate
26. To leave quickly and secretively
pallid
myopia
abscond
zaftig
27. To kill or destroy a large part of
recidivism
decimate
onus
cortege
28. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
protean
rapprochement
hidebound
determinism
29. In title only
titular
placebo
pluralism
gainsay
30. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
histrionic
penury
noisome
abstinence
31. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
saturnine
toothsome
anathema
munificent
32. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
impugn
obdurate
abrogate
perquisite
33. To confuse - deceive
rout
propinquity
diaspora
discomfit
34. To impede - restrain - hamper
neophyte
profligate
fetter
forswear
35. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
pluralism
reprobate
perquisite
mercurial
36. Award or honor - high praise
tendentious
gerrymander
ignominious
accolade
37. Wildly fanciful - absurd
cataclysm
chimerical
compunction
belie
38. A judge - one who decides
itinerant
chimerical
arbiter
rout
39. A dominant or recurring theme
muckrake
extirpate
pallid
leitmotif
40. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
somnolent
umbrage
largess
bon vivant
41. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
penultimate
chary
intransigent
palliate
42. To honor - to worship - to respect
pregnant
venerate
scotch
ancillary
43. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
gerrymander
saturnine
bivouac
capricious
44. Wise - shrewd
cortege
prescient
calumny
sagacious
45. Accompanying - attending - going along with
mellifluous
exemplar
concomitant
surreptitious
46. A temporary suspension of activity
acquit
portent
abeyance
malapropism
47. A procession - a group of attendants
comport
descry
cortege
elan
48. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
bowdlerize
abeyance
cortege
husbandry
49. Next to last
calumny
penultimate
itinerant
determinism
50. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
scotch
chary
dichotomy
ascetic