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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
irascible
gesticulate
privation
nonplus
2. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
pregnant
antipodal
punctilious
contentious
3. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
hidebound
sagacious
accouterments
saturnine
4. A disaster or violent breakdown
supercilious
malapropism
apocryphal
debacle
5. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
dulcet
junta
effete
abscond
6. In title only
onus
titular
endemic
sententious
7. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
compunction
sagacious
bathos
patois
8. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
leitmotif
ethnocentric
supercilious
cogitate
9. To wish for with envy
prescient
covet
moribund
patina
10. Generous
arbiter
munificent
sartorial
evanescent
11. An intimate group of people with a common interest
quiescence
compunction
interregnum
coterie
12. Squalid - a slovenly woman
descry
imbroglio
philistine
slatternly
13. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
anathema
reprobate
effete
gestalt
14. To stir up - to incite
neophyte
alchemy
munificent
foment
15. Coming into existence - being born
milieu
nascent
castigate
gamin
16. A procession - a group of attendants
truculent
arbiter
punctilious
cortege
17. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
imbroglio
privation
veracious
punctilious
18. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
abrogate
muckrake
patina
19. To muse upon
ennui
nihilism
ruminate
phlegmatic
20. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
histrionic
oeuvre
chicanery
flagellate
21. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
ancillary
oeuvre
rapprochement
alchemy
22. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
nihilism
trice
levee
belie
23. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
juggernaut
miasma
myopia
probity
24. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
ruminate
clout
gestalt
hidebound
25. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
mercurial
pregnant
assiduous
gird
26. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
effete
reticent
patois
bilious
27. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
temerity
bumptious
contentious
omniscient
28. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
myopia
simper
perspicacious
erudite
29. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
abeyance
sui generis
effete
erudite
30. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
redoubtable
miasma
shibboleth
rife
31. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
prurient
truculent
temporize
onerous
32. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
besmirch
vacuous
insouciant
ennui
33. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
cogitate
diurnal
bowdlerize
oeuvre
34. Hot-tempered - cranky
irascible
arbiter
insouciant
gamin
35. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
shibboleth
levee
implacable
macerate
36. A large - disastrous fire
conflagration
cataclysm
usury
histrionic
37. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
interregnum
dichotomy
malapropism
histrionic
38. Sweetly flowing
wont
mellifluous
imbroglio
ennui
39. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
shibboleth
prevaricate
vainglorious
40. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
contentious
inveterate
recondite
foment
41. Power - strength
puissance
abeyance
scofflaw
feral
42. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
scofflaw
circumlocution
oeuvre
stalwart
43. A temporary encampment
probity
bivouac
cortege
sturm and drang
44. An inferior substitute
macerate
myopia
gainsay
ersatz
45. Whim - an unpredictable action
compunction
portent
vagary
vitriolic
46. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
cataclysm
probity
bon vivant
capricious
47. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
exigent
concomitant
pluralism
conflagration
48. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
bathos
apocryphal
saturnine
junta
49. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
bilious
nirvana
bowdlerize
juggernaut
50. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
synergy
veneer
supercilious
ribald