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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. Believable
exacting
sloth
plausible
infamy
2. To support - or be in favor of
galvanize
succinct
permeate
advocate
3. Gentle - not harmful - kind
incontrovertible
benign
pretentious
emulate
4. Marked by abundant production or offspring
prolific
fodder
tenet
spurious
5. To gather and store away - to acquire by effort
garner
circumspect
stoic
pivotal
6. To defame - to slander - to blacken the character of
quell
vilify
rebuff
indigent
7. To make evident by showing
efface
paucity
raucous
manifest
8. Fearless - having fortitude and endurance
intrepid
craven
capitulate
insidious
9. Useless - hopeless - without effect
futile
homage
placate
ebb
10. Cowardly
provincial
capitulate
craven
vehement
11. A dividing wall - a division
partition
buffoon
incessant
jargon
12. A trick or deceptive scheme
stratagem
strident
levity
begrudge
13. Brief - without much attention to detail
respite
verbose
cursory
clique
14. To give notice of - to hail or greet
delude
herald
thwart
zealot
15. Happening by chance - lucky or fortunate
fortuitous
cache
martyr
obviate
16. To grow strong - to grow abundantly - to thrive or prosper - to make broad and sweeping gestures
imperious
expunge
forfeit
flourish
17. Excessively sweet
polemic
aggrandize
saccharine
winsome
18. Pleasant to the taste - agreeable in feeling
palatable
nominal
robust
pious
19. To compete - to contest
vapid
nomadic
vie
fawning
20. Unfeeling and insensitive
vehement
fledgling
callous
banal
21. Greatly demanding - requiring close attention
exacting
reprehensible
discount
facade
22. To make impossible - to shut out - to bar
plausible
dormant
preclude
aesthetic
23. Noisy commotion - uproar
animosity
extol
tumult
viable
24. Sly - treacherous - having a gradual effect
insidious
tortuous
harbinger
censure
25. To make clear
relegate
elucidate
hiatus
reciprocal
26. Insignificant - trifling
nominal
blithe
stymie
cursory
27. Constant - lasting a long time
oust
chronic
censure
catharsis
28. A long and angry speech
stratagem
tirade
levity
succinct
29. A good or bad emanation of force from someone or something - in Hinduism and Buddhism the force created by someone's actions to perpetuate reincarnation
legacy
karma
tirade
overture
30. Intense - forceful - marked by strong feeling
odyssey
vehement
aversion
aggrandize
31. To give up something as a penalty for some error or crime
winsome
forfeit
banal
reprehensible
32. Careless - too relaxed
tortuous
reciprocal
resilient
lax
33. To erase - to rub away the features - to obscure
buffoon
efface
engaging
austere
34. To lessen in value - to belittle
unilateral
depreciate
foray
vivacious
35. An external appearance
hiatus
prudent
corroborate
guise
36. Emotionally moving
poignant
indigent
imperious
deference
37. To blot out leaving no traces - to destroy
vivacious
undermine
obliterate
viable
38. Disrespectful - gently or humorously mocking
stratagem
irreverent
morose
laconic
39. Any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs - or practice
tenet
heresy
sloth
relic
40. Primitive - rural - lacking city comforts
bulwark
enshroud
extol
rustic
41. To support with evidence
eccentric
precept
dearth
corroborate
42. A hiding place - something hidden in a secret place
cache
teem
irreverent
discount
43. To make worse or more severe
tenet
exacerbate
austere
esoteric
44. Raw material for a given end
copious
guile
turpitude
fodder
45. A person who breaks away from the crowd - a nonconformist
spurious
maverick
infamy
advocate
46. A person who takes advantage of opportunity with no regard for principle
karma
hyperbole
coherent
opportunist
47. To make an ugly disapproving facial expression
grimace
vapid
incessant
anomalous
48. The full range of something
gamut
spurious
depreciate
blithe
49. To mourn - to express regret
lament
pique
oust
tepid
50. To turn pale
resplendent
catharsis
laconic
blanch