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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
evanescent
recidivism
dulcet
aggrieve
2. Harmful
sui generis
deleterious
diurnal
scofflaw
3. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
ossify
besmirch
prepossess
4. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
panegyric
castigate
debacle
surreptitious
5. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
impecunious
ensconce
cabal
rarefied
6. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
adjure
dissipate
lassitude
vainglorious
7. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
comport
concomitant
compunction
feral
8. Disgraceful and dishonorable
ignominious
ensconce
juggernaut
vicarious
9. A judge - one who decides
nabob
undulate
arbiter
adjure
10. To muse upon
halitosis
husbandry
ruminate
ameliorate
11. Whim - an unpredictable action
viscosity
abeyance
akimbo
vagary
12. Vulgar or indecent language
ribald
prevaricate
vicarious
gamin
13. To enroll - most particularly in college
feral
milieu
gerrymander
matriculate
14. To impede - restrain - hamper
histrionic
cataclysm
hidebound
fetter
15. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
apogee
secrete
lassitude
besmirch
16. Something that is an essential condition of
scotch
sine qua non
doff
cataclysm
17. A file of documents - letters and records
dossier
nepotism
chicanery
machination
18. Relating to dress or fashion
sartorial
ossify
repartee
inchoate
19. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
assignation
perfunctory
insouciant
20. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sturm and drang
maudlin
sallow
rarefied
21. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
chary
rubric
rout
antipodal
22. Hard to understand or grasp
vitriolic
abstruse
concomitant
lope
23. Boastful - pompous
deleterious
phantasm
inchoate
vainglorious
24. Deception or trickery
temerity
chicanery
lope
remuneration
25. To gesture - especially when speaking
gesticulate
philistine
abeyance
venerate
26. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
salubrious
implacable
bathos
timorous
27. Uncompromising - stubborn
bathos
titular
intransigent
flagellate
28. Overly sentimental
maudlin
disquiet
dichotomy
obsequious
29. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
chimerical
gamin
irascible
portent
30. A temporary encampment
macerate
impugn
bivouac
stalwart
31. Animals
raffish
fauna
probity
temporize
32. To honor - to worship - to respect
contentious
venerate
supercilious
perfidious
33. Next to last
zephyr
hidebound
malfeasance
penultimate
34. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
adumbrate
ambulatory
reticent
feckless
35. To dry out
gird
cataclysm
desiccate
shibboleth
36. A sudden outburst
assiduous
spate
espy
venerate
37. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
ossify
titular
desiccate
rout
38. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
fey
halitosis
lassitude
exigent
39. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
sangfroid
placebo
lassitude
hoary
40. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
prowess
somnolent
fetter
desiccate
41. Occurring during the day - happens every day
provenance
abstinence
bowdlerize
diurnal
42. To rot
putrefy
sallow
imbroglio
privation
43. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
sui generis
niggardly
recidivism
protean
44. A massive - unstoppable object
exigent
juggernaut
matriculate
brook
45. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
rout
cabal
sylvan
mercurial
46. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
patina
scotch
maudlin
petulant
47. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
dilettante
libation
gainsay
prepossess
48. Custom - habit
cabal
wont
malfeasance
myopia
49. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
perorate
ruminate
officious
surreptitious
50. Careful - cautious - wary
prepossess
sallow
savant
chary
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