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SAT Word Power Harder
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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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1. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
ambulatory
ancillary
nirvana
gerrymander
2. Without money - penniless
usury
impecunious
apostasy
ersatz
3. Environment - surroundings
milieu
petulant
impugn
sturm and drang
4. Advancing a point of view - biased
recalcitrant
feckless
abstruse
tendentious
5. Moving from place to place
miasma
cataclysm
itinerant
ignominious
6. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
discomfit
prepossess
sally
facetious
7. Power - strength
cavil
impugn
puissance
decimate
8. To deny - to speak or act against
dissipate
decimate
gainsay
assiduous
9. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
dulcet
vitriolic
bivouac
perfunctory
10. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
assignation
gerrymander
vitriolic
obsequious
11. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
husbandry
histrionic
wizened
abstruse
12. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
adumbrate
perspicacious
vicarious
fetter
13. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
largess
libation
imbroglio
espy
14. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
salubrious
akimbo
descry
milieu
15. A gentle breeze
zephyr
panegyric
bacchanal
officious
16. Payment - recompense
remuneration
moribund
lope
abstinence
17. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
omnivorous
quiescence
husbandry
portent
18. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
verdant
slatternly
saturnine
19. Covered with green plants - leafy
toothsome
rarefied
venerate
verdant
20. A re-establishment of good relations
elliptical
macerate
rapprochement
wont
21. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
trice
sententious
bathos
extirpate
22. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
levee
lassitude
bon vivant
ribald
23. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
implacable
martinet
endemic
simper
24. Something that is an essential condition of
enervate
sine qua non
perorate
garrulous
25. Award or honor - high praise
descry
accolade
malfeasance
pregnant
26. To swing back and forth
disquiet
hoary
onus
oscillate
27. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
patois
perquisite
impugn
raffish
28. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
secrete
miasma
fey
abstinence
29. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
noisome
prevaricate
nihilism
veracious
30. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
depredate
chary
foment
contentious
31. Oval - obscure in expression
machination
elliptical
impecunious
bumptious
32. Occurring during the day - happens every day
slatternly
maudlin
wont
diurnal
33. State of rest or inactivity
venerate
elliptical
apocryphal
quiescence
34. Facade - coating - outward appearance
veneer
saturnine
vicarious
cabal
35. One who is continually breaking the law
dichotomy
scofflaw
neophyte
largess
36. To gesture - especially when speaking
intransigent
perorate
gesticulate
veracious
37. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
miasma
wastrel
covet
recidivism
38. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
bon vivant
redoubtable
lassitude
adumbrate
39. A eulogy or expression of high praise
hoary
encomium
moribund
bon vivant
40. Fawning - subservient - servile
wastrel
opprobrious
diaspora
obsequious
41. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
implacable
sagacious
hoary
ethnocentric
42. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
recondite
doff
perspicacious
43. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
tony
besmirch
assignation
ennui
44. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
interregnum
compunction
milieu
acquit
45. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
fey
palliate
wont
perorate
46. To attack the integrity of something
inveterate
exemplar
impugn
bandy
47. A dominant or recurring theme
bowdlerize
sartorial
elliptical
leitmotif
48. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
zaftig
shibboleth
prowess
ambulatory
49. A file of documents - letters and records
dossier
rout
compunction
peregrination
50. In title only
nabob
petulant
circumlocution
titular