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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. To deviate from the truth
nabob
prevaricate
determinism
parsimonious
2. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
aggrieve
usury
sally
evanescent
3. Stingy - small in a mean way
palliate
dissipate
niggardly
milieu
4. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
repartee
quiescence
noisome
garrulous
5. To confuse - deceive
repartee
onus
discomfit
ancillary
6. Fertile - productive - fruitful
verdant
accouterments
fecund
ameliorate
7. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
protean
circumlocution
opprobrious
abstinence
8. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
anathema
byzantine
protean
macerate
9. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
assiduous
insouciant
comport
erudite
10. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
stalwart
pallid
sagacious
castigate
11. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
surreptitious
prurient
sylvan
calumny
12. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
byzantine
cortege
sangfroid
evanescent
13. A re-establishment of good relations
mirthful
putrefy
rapprochement
muckrake
14. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
diurnal
intransigent
palliate
nepotism
15. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
forswear
cortege
malfeasance
16. One who adheres strictly to rules
fetter
conflagration
dossier
martinet
17. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
nepotism
alchemy
insouciant
recidivism
18. Accompanying - attending - going along with
concomitant
maudlin
slatternly
dilettante
19. The mood or spirit of the times
fusillade
elliptical
perfidious
zeitgeist
20. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
implacable
cataclysm
elan
temporize
21. An inferior substitute
prepossess
ersatz
penultimate
bivouac
22. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
capricious
halitosis
descry
patois
23. Wise - shrewd
gerrymander
sagacious
encomium
rapprochement
24. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
bandy
shibboleth
portent
25. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
antipodal
myopia
putrefy
endemic
26. To bewilder - to puzzle
milieu
pregnant
nonplus
largess
27. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
simper
tony
sturm and drang
libidinous
28. A temporary encampment
truculent
bivouac
venerate
antipodal
29. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
macerate
irascible
husbandry
circumlocution
30. A beginner - a novice
vitriolic
neophyte
machination
apostasy
31. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
shibboleth
salubrious
impervious
bilious
32. To attack the integrity of something
aegis
plebeian
impugn
compunction
33. A cave explorer
interregnum
spelunker
usury
conflagration
34. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
contentious
vagary
cortege
opus
35. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
supercilious
intransigent
evanescent
assignation
36. To wish for with envy
rapprochement
covet
diurnal
macerate
37. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
toothsome
macerate
shibboleth
ensconce
38. Advancing a point of view - biased
tendentious
forswear
brook
perspicacious
39. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
oeuvre
apostasy
dulcet
omnivorous
40. Fearful - easily frightened
timorous
lassitude
cortege
paradigm
41. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
doff
matriculate
perspicacious
perorate
42. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
levee
cortege
gamin
miasma
43. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
lassitude
prepossess
doff
bon vivant
44. Subsidiary - subordinate
saturnine
ancillary
contentious
venerate
45. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
capricious
viscosity
flagellate
mendacious
46. Coming into existence - being born
cabal
rife
nascent
martinet
47. Turmoil
prurient
sturm and drang
truculent
abstruse
48. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
panegyric
antipodal
husbandry
ensconce
49. Native - belonging to a specific region
endemic
ignominious
evanescent
ameliorate
50. To deny - to speak or act against
prescient
impugn
gainsay
omniscient