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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.
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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 messenger or representative - an agent
emissary
theology
vilify
overture
2. The highest point
reprove
homogeneous
zenith
inept
3. To dismiss to a less prominent position - to banish
immaterial
relegate
garner
hiatus
4. To be indecisive or inconstant - to fluctuate in opinion
waver
botch
buffoon
incipient
5. The remains of something that no longer exists
infamy
vestige
arduous
absolve
6. An emotional purification - an emotional release
catharsis
rebuke
gullible
saccharine
7. Sluggish - laziness - indolence
sloth
genteel
stagnate
depravity
8. Delicacy of workmanship - subtlety - skillful maneuvering
capitulate
prosaic
travesty
finesse
9. Connection between different groups - a close bond - an illicit sexual relationship
trivial
liaison
dearth
permeate
10. Irregular - abnormal - unusual
turpitude
steadfast
delineate
anomalous
11. A subtle distinction - a slight difference in definition
insipid
nuance
verbose
grimace
12. A person who breaks away from the crowd - a nonconformist
maverick
tirade
nominal
nomadic
13. A person with great enthusiasm for and commitment to a cause
futile
oust
zealot
mercenary
14. A place of meeting or joining - a linkup
garner
junction
delude
stymie
15. To weaken the support of - to injure in a slow or sneaky way
penchant
imperious
copious
undermine
16. Without a permanent home - constantly wandering
prudent
nominal
nomadic
preclude
17. An opera singer - prima donna - a temperamental - conceited person
diva
expedite
blithe
nomadic
18. Strong or fixed dislike - a feeling of repugnance
pious
tentative
impotent
aversion
19. Yearning - sad longing - a gentle desire
feign
wistful
inept
fodder
20. Wise - showing judgment - cautious
judicious
meander
plausible
arduous
21. To gather and store away - to acquire by effort
embellish
absolve
rebuff
garner
22. Minimal - hardly sufficient
scanty
nullify
palatable
embellish
23. Abundance - excessive amount
surfeit
scintillate
clemency
craven
24. To treat with disrespect
martyr
desecrate
virulent
fawning
25. Reverent - devout - dutiful - may at times be marked by hypocrisy
stratagem
pious
chronic
relic
26. Standard for judging (plural: criteria)
criterion
indigent
relegate
polemic
27. Stationary - not changing or moving
static
terse
caustic
discount
28. Sly - treacherous - having a gradual effect
insidious
rebuff
paucity
table
29. Indifferent - a lack of energy - spiritless
copious
unilateral
listless
augment
30. Suave - sophisticated - polished
affinity
maverick
urbane
paltry
31. To increase or enlarge
trivial
provincial
unilateral
augment
32. A dividing wall - a division
guile
zealot
penchant
partition
33. Wordy
banal
faction
judicious
verbose
34. Submissive - behaving like a slave
servile
didactic
hubris
rebuke
35. Uncertain - temporary not fully worked out
tentative
futile
quixotic
lucid
36. A chance event - a coincidence - a stroke of luck
indigenous
turpitude
fluke
forfeit
37. Poverty stricken - needy
indigent
efface
opaque
deference
38. Gloomy - bad tempered - a sullen disposition
morose
agenda
partition
amnesty
39. Deserving of blame
undermine
inept
facade
reprehensible
40. To decline - to recede
ebb
exalt
harbinger
fluke
41. A blessing - a good wish
waver
benediction
temperance
fledgling
42. An official pardon for a group of people who violate a law
stoic
tenuous
aesthetic
amnesty
43. Conversational - used in informal speech
elucidate
pedantic
obviate
colloquial
44. To beg persistently - to degrade oneself
corroborate
grovel
cursory
table
45. Present but not visible or apparent - dormant - potential
jargon
placate
tonic
latent
46. A trick or deceptive scheme
philanthropy
rebuke
stratagem
pariah
47. To give up something as a penalty for some error or crime
forfeit
zenith
saccharine
oust
48. Freely given - unnecessary - uncalled for - unwarranted
destitute
terse
gratuitous
tortuous
49. Similar - of the same kind - uniform in nature
homogeneous
placate
obliterate
morose
50. Primitive - rural - lacking city comforts
cache
tedious
rustic
lament