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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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1. An illegal act especially by a public official
malfeasance
apostasy
rout
husbandry
2. Payment - recompense
remuneration
ersatz
verdant
endemic
3. Generous
munificent
penury
recalcitrant
histrionic
4. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
gamin
scotch
arbiter
cavil
5. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
encomium
accouterments
patois
adumbrate
6. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
neophyte
dilettante
ruminate
7. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
trice
hoary
provenance
gird
8. Severe - exceedingly harsh
alchemy
miasma
draconian
dossier
9. To invest with authority - to brace
behemoth
gird
scotch
elliptical
10. Being in a dying or decaying condition
probity
moribund
reprobate
bacchanal
11. A judge - one who decides
rubric
arbiter
machination
evanescent
12. To confuse - deceive
foment
philistine
discomfit
putrefy
13. To bewilder - to puzzle
implacable
tendentious
timorous
nonplus
14. Empty - lacking intelligence
sangfroid
descry
vacuous
cabal
15. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
phantasm
impervious
aegis
noisome
16. Marked with thin lines or grooves
obsequious
striated
rapprochement
impecunious
17. To honor - to worship - to respect
penultimate
miasma
puissance
venerate
18. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
pluralism
ossify
sine qua non
cabal
19. Occurring during the day - happens every day
diurnal
recidivism
remuneration
ennui
20. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
milieu
besmirch
ameliorate
21. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
mirthful
shibboleth
repartee
abstruse
22. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
bathos
prowess
cogitate
pregnant
23. To wish for with envy
spelunker
desiccate
libation
covet
24. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
tony
bivouac
reticent
prepossess
25. To rot
putrefy
vacuous
noisome
gerrymander
26. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
bon vivant
abeyance
vainglorious
27. To leave quickly and secretively
abscond
descry
wont
feral
28. A dominant or recurring theme
leitmotif
nihilism
onus
matriculate
29. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
mellifluous
feral
dissipate
reprobate
30. Next to last
nepotism
malfeasance
penultimate
insouciant
31. Extreme poverty
penury
wizened
comport
apoplexy
32. Shriveled - withered
redoubtable
abscond
wizened
homeopathy
33. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
martinet
nabob
fauna
34. A massive - unstoppable object
dilettante
juggernaut
conflagration
assignation
35. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
hoary
placebo
junta
largess
36. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
repartee
sycophant
besmirch
sententious
37. Hard to understand or grasp
noisome
abstruse
wastrel
homeopathy
38. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
bumptious
tendentious
chicanery
savant
39. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
chimerical
bilious
apoplexy
stalwart
40. Stingy
titular
recidivism
parsimonious
zephyr
41. Relating to dress or fashion
akimbo
libidinous
sartorial
surreptitious
42. Environment - surroundings
rarefied
milieu
ersatz
striated
43. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
trice
implacable
espy
histrionic
44. Award or honor - high praise
impecunious
umbrage
abstinence
accolade
45. Lacking color - wan
panacea
viscosity
antipodal
pallid
46. Pungent - charmingly provocative
descry
determinism
verdant
piquant
47. A moment - a short period of time
rife
clout
capricious
trice
48. Bad breath
maudlin
apocryphal
enervate
halitosis
49. To tolerate - to put up with something
striated
ruminate
brook
acquit
50. To behave
comport
stalwart
fetter
prepossess
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