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SAT Word Power
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Subjects
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sat
,
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. Sly - treacherous - having a gradual effect
insidious
overture
guile
vapid
2. Understood by only a few
aggrandize
esoteric
capitulate
inept
3. Wise - showing judgment - cautious
judicious
galvanize
novel
vie
4. Able to get along well
depreciate
compatible
candor
tedious
5. Making sense - organized and logical
quell
wistful
coherent
philanthropy
6. Beginning to be - in an early stage
bracing
vehement
usurp
incipient
7. Workable - capable of living and growing - able to succeed
prolific
viable
saccharine
magnanimous
8. A blessing - a good wish
capitulate
travesty
benediction
respite
9. Commanding - lordly - arrogant
imperious
laud
fortuitous
thwart
10. An exclusive group
clique
austere
feign
myriad
11. Happily - lighthearted - joyful
abysmal
acquiesce
delineate
blithe
12. To stare at in a disrespectful way
diatribe
ogle
banal
tentative
13. A long difficult journey marked by changes in fortune
moot
egocentric
odyssey
temperance
14. Reverence - respect - an expression of high regard
emissary
nuance
homage
chronic
15. Clown or fool
lucid
incipient
buffoon
emissary
16. False - fake - not genuine
deference
spurious
tenuous
enigma
17. Strong and healthy - vigorous
clemency
robust
botch
latent
18. To support with evidence
inhibit
corroborate
scanty
incontrovertible
19. Something used as a defense - a strong protection
clique
oust
allusion
bulwark
20. To lessen in value - to belittle
depreciate
impotent
relic
galvanize
21. A government in which the power is in the hands of only a few
augment
depravity
insipid
oligarchy
22. Abundance - excessive amount
chronic
fidelity
surfeit
finesse
23. To beg persistently - to degrade oneself
enigma
stratagem
augment
grovel
24. (adj.) wordy - not concentrated; (v.) to spread widely
deft
eclectic
oligarchy
diffuse
25. Extravagant - exceeding what is usual
vilify
hubris
spurious
exorbitant
26. To brag publicly - to praise highly
vehement
bulwark
homogeneous
tout
27. To get in the way of - to hinder - to block
aggrandize
depreciate
absolve
stymie
28. The remains of something that no longer exists
abridge
oust
vestige
fortuitous
29. On one side alone
indigenous
pariah
nemesis
unilateral
30. Yearning - sad longing - a gentle desire
homage
wistful
philanthropy
insipid
31. A break or interruption from work or any other established routine
clique
verbose
hiatus
tumult
32. Extremely wretched - bottomless
partition
robust
abysmal
paltry
33. To make impossible - to shut out - to bar
forfeit
preclude
extol
vie
34. To deceive - to have false illusions
insidious
incontrovertible
delude
palatable
35. Lively - spirited
vivacious
discerning
tentative
pique
36. Of no matter or consequence - not important
benign
dogmatic
moot
temperance
37. Boringly scholarly - academic in mode
pedantic
preclude
gravity
imminent
38. Cunning duplicity - purposeful deceit
martyr
augment
guile
tenet
39. A hiding place - something hidden in a secret place
fledgling
paucity
cache
esoteric
40. A young bird learning to fly - a beginner - a novice
novel
fledgling
undermine
wanton
41. Determination - a state of being convinced
blanch
exacting
conviction
exorbitant
42. To envy another's possessions - to concede reluctantly
diffuse
permeate
dupe
begrudge
43. Scarcity - smallness in number or amount
paucity
travesty
enshroud
inept
44. Uncertain - temporary not fully worked out
advocate
vilify
tentative
manifest
45. To gently criticize
theology
travesty
reprove
pariah
46. A principle - doctrine or belief held as so by a group
blanch
tenet
quintessential
partition
47. Indifferent - a lack of energy - spiritless
chronic
criterion
listless
latent
48. A strong like for something - a predilection
vehement
capitulate
indigent
penchant
49. A long and angry speech
engaging
fortuitous
tirade
gratuitous
50. To swarm - to be inundated - to become full to overflowing
quaint
tonic
teem
pious