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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. Empty - lacking intelligence
vagary
vacuous
homeopathy
nascent
2. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
maudlin
feral
bumptious
elliptical
3. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
secrete
rarefied
slatternly
itinerant
4. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
ossify
oeuvre
synergy
largess
5. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
depredate
bandy
panegyric
6. Environment - surroundings
omnivorous
doff
milieu
adumbrate
7. Award or honor - high praise
ambulatory
myopia
accolade
abscond
8. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
mercurial
remuneration
recalcitrant
panacea
9. One who adheres strictly to rules
zaftig
martinet
conflagration
abstinence
10. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
impugn
wastrel
malfeasance
pluralism
11. Slander - deliberate false statements
intransigent
sagacious
calumny
sally
12. Evil - unjust
noisome
chicanery
iniquitous
zeitgeist
13. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
draconian
palliate
propinquity
coterie
14. To make uneasy
nepotism
maudlin
fecund
disquiet
15. An intimate group of people with a common interest
punctilious
comport
acquit
coterie
16. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
profligate
chary
bowdlerize
gestalt
17. Lending money at a high interest rate
chimerical
paradigm
truculent
usury
18. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
malfeasance
husbandry
gird
tony
19. A disaster or violent breakdown
veneer
debacle
nihilism
officious
20. Displeasure or resentment - shade
bon vivant
malapropism
fetter
umbrage
21. All knowing - infinite awareness
levee
decimate
omniscient
itinerant
22. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adumbrate
adjure
doff
parsimonious
23. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
itinerant
syllogism
perquisite
gamin
24. Bad breath
fusillade
nihilism
cavil
halitosis
25. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
martinet
fusillade
lope
vitriolic
26. Heading - title - category
ersatz
impervious
rubric
inveterate
27. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
chimerical
itinerant
patois
diaspora
28. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
conflagration
officious
effete
neophyte
29. Dishonest - deceitful
surreptitious
malapropism
piquant
mendacious
30. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
ambulatory
extirpate
plebeian
ossify
31. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
impugn
sui generis
privation
provenance
32. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
determinism
descry
recidivism
irascible
33. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
sartorial
fetter
gainsay
cavil
34. Being in a dying or decaying condition
oscillate
moribund
impecunious
undulate
35. To confuse - deceive
abscond
petulant
gamin
discomfit
36. An excellent model - a typical example
effete
exemplar
iniquitous
alchemy
37. To gesture - especially when speaking
ensconce
gesticulate
acquit
alchemy
38. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
capricious
ossify
hoary
39. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
imbroglio
perspicacious
deleterious
umbrage
40. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
sine qua non
bumptious
implacable
munificent
41. A procession - a group of attendants
libidinous
nepotism
inchoate
cortege
42. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
apogee
bon vivant
viscosity
ennui
43. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
feral
castigate
gestalt
tendentious
44. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
akimbo
effete
rubric
redoubtable
45. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
bowdlerize
ameliorate
anomie
garrulous
46. The act of repeating an offense
clout
mordant
chary
recidivism
47. Division into two often contradictory parts
obdurate
dissipate
dichotomy
nascent
48. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
halitosis
slatternly
apogee
byzantine
49. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
anathema
nabob
disquiet
aggrieve
50. A file of documents - letters and records
imbroglio
depredate
mercurial
dossier