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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Without money - penniless
descry
abscond
impecunious
philistine
2. Relating to dress or fashion
sartorial
veneer
spate
levee
3. To kill or destroy a large part of
behemoth
pallid
bacchanal
decimate
4. An intimate group of people with a common interest
byzantine
enervate
coterie
gerrymander
5. A wealthy - influential person
nabob
bumptious
brook
stalwart
6. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
cortege
simper
junta
zaftig
7. Fawning - subservient - servile
abscond
cataclysm
obsequious
aegis
8. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
ossify
descry
onerous
acquit
9. A gentle breeze
zephyr
facetious
flagellate
bivouac
10. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
penury
milieu
prevaricate
provenance
11. Deception or trickery
simper
supercilious
chicanery
gird
12. Boastful - pompous
insouciant
ribald
homeopathy
vainglorious
13. To invest with authority - to brace
gird
belie
circumlocution
oeuvre
14. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
wont
conflagration
redoubtable
15. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
undulate
accouterments
bacchanal
bivouac
16. To make uneasy
portent
adumbrate
disquiet
cataclysm
17. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
ensconce
nihilism
lope
spelunker
18. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
hoary
contentious
patina
slatternly
19. Truthful - honest
puissance
gamin
veracious
oscillate
20. A fake medication
placebo
calumny
sturm and drang
pallid
21. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
fetter
martinet
flagellate
reticent
22. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
moribund
encomium
inchoate
obsequious
23. A temporary suspension of activity
abeyance
machination
prowess
extirpate
24. To deny - to speak or act against
chimerical
wastrel
gainsay
impervious
25. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
redoubtable
foment
prepossess
malapropism
26. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
dulcet
gainsay
mercurial
deleterious
27. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
espy
bilious
obdurate
milieu
28. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
privation
sycophant
diurnal
cataclysm
29. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
piquant
prurient
forswear
husbandry
30. Moving from place to place
apocryphal
zeitgeist
itinerant
belie
31. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
bacchanal
byzantine
circumlocution
perspicacious
32. A dominant or recurring theme
concomitant
besmirch
leitmotif
fetter
33. To behave
trice
comport
zaftig
evanescent
34. To leave quickly and secretively
leitmotif
doggerel
abscond
sagacious
35. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
gerrymander
deleterious
bowdlerize
assiduous
36. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
milieu
castigate
myopia
ethnocentric
37. Stingy - small in a mean way
parsimonious
maudlin
ancillary
niggardly
38. Careful - cautious - wary
shibboleth
disquiet
chary
reticent
39. Hostile - aggressive - savage
truculent
fauna
doggerel
titular
40. Sweetly flowing
sally
martinet
mellifluous
cataclysm
41. Facade - coating - outward appearance
irascible
onus
sententious
veneer
42. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
gesticulate
quiescence
abstinence
synergy
43. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
sartorial
spelunker
wizened
adjure
44. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
milieu
undulate
philistine
juggernaut
45. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
vacuous
largess
gerrymander
dulcet
46. Something that is an essential condition of
accolade
decimate
malfeasance
sine qua non
47. In title only
ersatz
ameliorate
munificent
titular
48. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
viscosity
diaspora
scotch
muckrake
49. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
bumptious
vicarious
synergy
noisome
50. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
bon vivant
doggerel
venerate
officious