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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. Uncompromising - stubborn
sturm and drang
diurnal
intransigent
maudlin
2. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
gird
provenance
maudlin
hidebound
3. To put an end to
scotch
truculent
neophyte
husbandry
4. Merry - gleeful
ribald
mirthful
nirvana
acquit
5. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
prescient
besmirch
antipodal
fusillade
6. Stubborn
chicanery
bathos
obdurate
titular
7. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
oscillate
lope
fusillade
effete
8. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
prescient
truculent
doggerel
contentious
9. Boastful - pompous
prepossess
leitmotif
vainglorious
philistine
10. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
spate
petulant
ascetic
gerrymander
11. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
raffish
undulate
apostasy
assiduous
12. Something that is an essential condition of
sine qua non
inchoate
comport
nepotism
13. Payment - recompense
milieu
determinism
remuneration
aegis
14. A massive - unstoppable object
dichotomy
mendacious
juggernaut
salubrious
15. All knowing - infinite awareness
secrete
omniscient
truculent
vagary
16. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
philistine
bon vivant
apogee
phantasm
17. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
determinism
inveterate
nepotism
doggerel
18. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
deleterious
shibboleth
recondite
somnolent
19. To muse upon
feckless
ruminate
cataclysm
calumny
20. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
undulate
bowdlerize
abstinence
temerity
21. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
capricious
palliate
nascent
philistine
22. Award or honor - high praise
pallid
chicanery
accolade
paradigm
23. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
antipodal
vainglorious
forswear
recalcitrant
24. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
enervate
ascetic
nabob
mordant
25. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
mendacious
lassitude
nascent
largess
26. Dishonest - deceitful
nihilism
coterie
mendacious
recidivism
27. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
saturnine
elan
apocryphal
patina
28. Moving from place to place
itinerant
rife
byzantine
akimbo
29. A beginner - a novice
ossify
philistine
neophyte
usury
30. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
mordant
cachet
remuneration
espy
31. Having foresight
milieu
prescient
ascetic
calumny
32. Advancing a point of view - biased
mellifluous
tendentious
sallow
patois
33. Fearful - easily frightened
raffish
sangfroid
aggrieve
timorous
34. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
dissipate
implacable
bon vivant
bandy
35. Severe - exceedingly harsh
draconian
perspicacious
perfidious
omnivorous
36. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
prevaricate
anathema
patina
exemplar
37. Stingy - small in a mean way
inveterate
vitriolic
niggardly
hoary
38. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
gamin
perorate
ruminate
wont
39. Full-figured - plump
verdant
raffish
zaftig
desiccate
40. Truthful - honest
largess
veracious
oeuvre
patois
41. A gentle breeze
zephyr
assignation
ossify
irascible
42. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
doggerel
cavil
noisome
histrionic
43. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
vainglorious
protean
cabal
redoubtable
44. Overly sentimental
maudlin
sycophant
noisome
acquit
45. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
leitmotif
rarefied
rapprochement
vitriolic
46. Facade - coating - outward appearance
petulant
malfeasance
veneer
nabob
47. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
salubrious
juggernaut
palliate
conflagration
48. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
bon vivant
mendacious
enervate
pluralism
49. Division into two often contradictory parts
akimbo
dichotomy
gamin
plebeian
50. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
aegis
feral
propinquity
feckless