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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. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
fetter
rife
pregnant
2. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
gamin
wizened
sangfroid
quiescence
3. Winding - having many curves
itinerant
interregnum
sinuous
neophyte
4. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
phantasm
spelunker
hoary
sally
5. To put an end to
phantasm
sylvan
scotch
intransigent
6. A disaster or violent breakdown
debacle
ossify
nabob
prepossess
7. A wealthy - influential person
recidivism
coterie
secrete
nabob
8. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
munificent
pregnant
sally
hoary
9. Deception or trickery
chicanery
bivouac
remuneration
viscosity
10. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
gerrymander
fetter
inveterate
11. Protection - patronage
verdant
truculent
aegis
oscillate
12. Award or honor - high praise
tendentious
accolade
halitosis
abeyance
13. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
fusillade
mirthful
acquit
salubrious
14. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
temporize
apocryphal
surreptitious
sturm and drang
15. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
evanescent
doggerel
oscillate
desiccate
16. Lacking color - wan
pluralism
intransigent
pallid
ascetic
17. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
brook
abscond
accolade
saturnine
18. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
draconian
undulate
zaftig
behemoth
19. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
chary
patina
lassitude
venerate
20. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
behemoth
punctilious
impugn
somnolent
21. To enroll - most particularly in college
matriculate
panegyric
probity
temerity
22. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
munificent
adumbrate
antipodal
tony
23. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
raffish
reprobate
moribund
brook
24. To deviate from the truth
forswear
prevaricate
dichotomy
espy
25. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
omnivorous
bon vivant
malapropism
ossify
26. In title only
phantasm
noisome
umbrage
titular
27. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
chicanery
compunction
facetious
circumlocution
28. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
doff
prevaricate
petulant
exigent
29. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
pallid
deleterious
slatternly
prurient
30. To muse upon
apostasy
habeas corpus
ruminate
besmirch
31. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
abeyance
viscosity
usury
32. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
leitmotif
prescient
philistine
omniscient
33. Retract - renounce or recant
insouciant
habeas corpus
acquit
forswear
34. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
surreptitious
cogitate
histrionic
miasma
35. A procession - a group of attendants
slatternly
draconian
cortege
accouterments
36. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
piquant
palliate
malapropism
apogee
37. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
sagacious
largess
capricious
desiccate
38. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
stalwart
besmirch
phantasm
imbroglio
39. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
endemic
feral
petulant
reticent
40. Something that is an essential condition of
ersatz
apocryphal
scofflaw
sine qua non
41. 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
extirpate
umbrage
obdurate
diaspora
42. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
penury
adjure
paradigm
alacrity
43. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
debacle
nirvana
bandy
compunction
44. Advancing a point of view - biased
bandy
tendentious
ancillary
sui generis
45. Full-figured - plump
rubric
zaftig
apoplexy
veracious
46. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
rout
lope
levee
flagellate
47. A system of natural healing
homeopathy
habeas corpus
viscosity
evanescent
48. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
levee
dissipate
sinuous
viscosity
49. Native - belonging to a specific region
endemic
petulant
ersatz
perfunctory
50. To make better - to ease or improve
ameliorate
doff
wastrel
cogitate