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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. To repeal - cancel - render void
nullify
grimace
chronic
pretentious
2. Noisy commotion - uproar
tumult
delude
craven
circumspect
3. To arouse suddenly - to stimulate - spur to action
clemency
quintessential
galvanize
relic
4. To praise highly
finesse
enshroud
homogeneous
extol
5. To shorten - condense - or lessen in length
tirade
abridge
tortuous
sloth
6. Useless - hopeless - without effect
criterion
futile
benediction
zealot
7. Lacking taste - dull - bland
insipid
provincial
terse
karma
8. Secret - done by stealth - sly
furtive
advocate
novel
infamy
9. A feeling of depression - uneasiness - of being unwell
wistful
botch
malaise
resplendent
10. A secret meeting of lovers
levity
tryst
nomadic
robust
11. Lukewarm - unenthusiastic - halfhearted
manifest
tepid
levity
elucidate
12. To make clear
pique
elucidate
expunge
dormant
13. To move to a new country - to move to a new place
cursory
emigrate
altruistic
paucity
14. Reverent - devout - dutiful - may at times be marked by hypocrisy
pious
censure
magnanimous
replenish
15. Emotionally moving
poignant
stoic
lucid
agenda
16. Concise - clearly expressed with a few words
respite
finesse
succinct
abdicate
17. Brief - without much attention to detail
cursory
convey
aversion
dogmatic
18. A place of meeting or joining - a linkup
intrepid
dearth
junction
eccentric
19. Showing indifference to pain - apathetic
tedious
opaque
fidelity
stoic
20. An official pardon for a group of people who violate a law
unilateral
turpitude
deference
amnesty
21. To deduct - to disregard
discount
laconic
abridge
feign
22. Self-involved - selfish
egocentric
eulogize
embellish
emissary
23. Crucial - something around which things turn
reciprocal
corroborate
arduous
pivotal
24. One who suffers for a cause - a person who sacrifices for a principle
laconic
exacerbate
jeopardy
martyr
25. To lessen in value - to belittle
depreciate
reprehensible
pretentious
compatible
26. Minimal - hardly sufficient
diva
oligarchy
clemency
scanty
27. Strong or fixed dislike - a feeling of repugnance
aversion
delineate
levity
travesty
28. To grow strong - to grow abundantly - to thrive or prosper - to make broad and sweeping gestures
flourish
diva
extol
engaging
29. Deserving of blame
reprehensible
corroborate
conviction
copious
30. To swarm - to be inundated - to become full to overflowing
teem
herald
judicious
esoteric
31. An opera singer - prima donna - a temperamental - conceited person
scintillate
diva
colloquial
immaterial
32. To make great
aggrandize
engaging
altruistic
precept
33. Brief in speech - using very few words
fallacy
laconic
discount
chronic
34. Constant - lasting a long time
chronic
embellish
odious
stagnate
35. To envy another's possessions - to concede reluctantly
scintillate
fidelity
begrudge
legacy
36. Brilliant - gloriously bright
zenith
begrudge
resplendent
discount
37. Seriousness
trivial
levity
hiatus
gravity
38. Skillful
volatile
deft
junction
turpitude
39. A powerful argument to defend a thesis
polemic
sloth
hubris
poignant
40. To compete - to contest
vie
quintessential
laconic
garner
41. Any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs - or practice
heresy
spurious
criterion
nomadic
42. An outcast
thwart
pariah
gravity
fidelity
43. An object associated with a saint - something that remains from the past
relic
irreverent
eclectic
abdicate
44. To make worse or more severe
botch
abysmal
efface
exacerbate
45. A blessing - a good wish
travesty
cache
benediction
abysmal
46. To beg persistently - to degrade oneself
scanty
gamut
gullible
grovel
47. To describe or picture in words - to detail
scintillate
stratagem
delineate
levity
48. A tiny or insignificant amount - meager - scant
transfix
paltry
efface
listless
49. To surrender - to stop resisting
capitulate
transfix
desecrate
grovel
50. Unoriginal - overused - cliched - commonplace
laconic
trite
prolific
pedantic