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SAT Word Power
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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 give notice of - to hail or greet
fortuitous
herald
galvanize
broach
2. A dividing wall - a division
pivotal
partition
jaunt
robust
3. To speak in praise of someone - to pay written or spoken tribute
marshal
odyssey
replenish
eulogize
4. A long difficult journey marked by changes in fortune
odyssey
benign
surfeit
criterion
5. The principal front of a building - a false appearance
banal
facade
engaging
vestige
6. An emotional purification - an emotional release
finesse
catharsis
immaterial
blithe
7. Glowing - bright - emitting light
discerning
jaunt
resilient
luminous
8. Uncertain - temporary not fully worked out
hyperbole
irreverent
tentative
karma
9. Crucial - something around which things turn
poignant
pivotal
galvanize
delude
10. Wordy
verbose
bulwark
unilateral
gravity
11. An outcast
tenet
pariah
engaging
furtive
12. To make impossible - to shut out - to bar
steadfast
overture
preclude
relegate
13. To make great
stoic
circumspect
juxtapose
aggrandize
14. Brief - without much attention to detail
extol
table
absolve
cursory
15. Excessive pride - arrogance - exaggerated self-confidence
zenith
nullify
hubris
tentative
16. Indifferent - a lack of energy - spiritless
listless
expedite
embellish
facade
17. Unfeeling and insensitive
callous
gullible
teem
guise
18. Sympathy - attraction - kinship
affinity
usurp
pique
absolve
19. Disrespectful - gently or humorously mocking
finesse
irreverent
botch
volatile
20. To swarm - to be inundated - to become full to overflowing
enshroud
acquiesce
teem
verbose
21. A specialized vocabulary of a group - an obscure language
jargon
opportunist
facade
novel
22. (adj.) invigorating; (v.) to prepare
prudent
emulate
bracing
clemency
23. Difficult to do - laborious
arduous
coalesce
philanthropy
dogmatic
24. As though asleep - not actively growing
absolve
luminous
fallacy
dormant
25. Truthfulness - great honesty - frankness
harbinger
urbane
verbose
candor
26. To hurt or rile the feelings of someone - irritate
travesty
pique
scanty
virulent
27. To keep from free activity or expression - to restrain or even forbid
discerning
placate
ogle
inhibit
28. To defame - to slander - to blacken the character of
vilify
negligent
enigma
penchant
29. Minimal - hardly sufficient
bulwark
scanty
transfix
amnesty
30. To deceive - to trick
penchant
usurp
dupe
begrudge
31. To make clear
explicit
elucidate
tirade
relegate
32. Greatly demanding - requiring close attention
paltry
exacting
aversion
quell
33. A puzzle - a baffling situation - something obscure
hyperbole
enigma
incontrovertible
transfix
34. Gentle - not harmful - kind
benign
table
usurp
garner
35. To blot out leaving no traces - to destroy
obliterate
listless
jargon
augment
36. An evil reputation borne of a criminal act - a reputation for evil deeds
infamy
galvanize
resilient
marshal
37. Sly - treacherous - having a gradual effect
paucity
insidious
desecrate
hyperbole
38. Showy - self-important - make unjustifiable claims to excellence
dogmatic
tortuous
benediction
pretentious
39. A strong like for something - a predilection
facade
fallacy
zenith
penchant
40. Very poor - totally lacking
genteel
destitute
amnesty
harbinger
41. Abundance - excessive amount
surfeit
jaunt
surmise
enigma
42. To move to a new country - to move to a new place
exalt
homage
explicit
emigrate
43. Believable
mercenary
depravity
plausible
tortuous
44. To make an ugly disapproving facial expression
usurp
insidious
table
grimace
45. Moral corruption
depravity
absolve
succinct
dogmatic
46. To make faster or easier - to carry our promptly
expedite
permeate
emissary
egregious
47. To bungle - to foul up
placate
palatable
altruistic
botch
48. Standard for judging (plural: criteria)
nemesis
criterion
desecrate
benign
49. To make unnecessary - to avert - to preclude
esoteric
obviate
futile
buffoon
50. Reverent - devout - dutiful - may at times be marked by hypocrisy
tenet
pious
fallacy
delude