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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. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
feckless
alacrity
malapropism
muckrake
2. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
philistine
zeitgeist
perorate
cabal
3. One who is continually breaking the law
bandy
cortege
quiescence
scofflaw
4. Fertile - productive - fruitful
perspicacious
cataclysm
fecund
inveterate
5. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
sine qua non
disquiet
hoary
syllogism
6. Common - vulgar - low class
juggernaut
plebeian
bilious
evanescent
7. Evil - unjust
vacuous
raffish
iniquitous
decimate
8. Marked with thin lines or grooves
striated
juggernaut
wizened
secrete
9. A wealthy - influential person
husbandry
nabob
endemic
nonplus
10. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
halitosis
patina
rife
chary
11. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
rarefied
milieu
oscillate
determinism
12. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
neophyte
rapprochement
repartee
apogee
13. Subsidiary - subordinate
ancillary
opus
bacchanal
foment
14. Merry - gleeful
verdant
mirthful
omniscient
elan
15. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
synergy
niggardly
opus
16. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
recondite
endemic
libation
implacable
17. Careful - cautious - wary
sally
chary
erudite
ameliorate
18. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
nascent
redoubtable
pregnant
covet
19. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
feral
machination
omnivorous
penultimate
20. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
doff
macerate
adumbrate
zeitgeist
21. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
exemplar
synergy
bowdlerize
nepotism
22. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
bowdlerize
ancillary
implacable
chary
23. To bewilder - to puzzle
ossify
diaspora
nonplus
bivouac
24. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
verdant
doggerel
martinet
obsequious
25. A disaster or violent breakdown
redoubtable
macerate
debacle
gesticulate
26. Faithless - untrustworthy
perfidious
redoubtable
rife
umbrage
27. Environment - surroundings
milieu
extirpate
dulcet
niggardly
28. To confuse - deceive
piquant
discomfit
depredate
chary
29. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
sagacious
ennui
impecunious
recalcitrant
30. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
antipodal
sinuous
spelunker
descry
31. A fake medication
alacrity
placebo
vagary
spate
32. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
doggerel
abscond
abrogate
opprobrious
33. Winding - having many curves
sinuous
sine qua non
prurient
lope
34. To deviate from the truth
aegis
comport
prevaricate
peregrination
35. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
miasma
recalcitrant
libidinous
privation
36. Uncompromising - stubborn
piquant
reticent
intransigent
paradigm
37. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
prepossess
perfunctory
sagacious
sinuous
38. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
halitosis
cataclysm
usury
portent
39. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
diurnal
hidebound
neophyte
40. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
belie
wont
bandy
rife
41. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
adumbrate
slatternly
onus
bathos
42. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
desiccate
raffish
matriculate
43. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
apocryphal
malfeasance
conflagration
circumlocution
44. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
apocryphal
sangfroid
recondite
diaspora
45. A gentle breeze
zephyr
fusillade
plebeian
nirvana
46. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
concomitant
lassitude
anomie
47. Division into two often contradictory parts
placebo
miasma
synergy
dichotomy
48. A large - disastrous fire
conflagration
scotch
sagacious
feral
49. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
prowess
quiescence
redoubtable
penultimate
50. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
perorate
doff
implacable
punctilious