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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 support - or be in favor of
advocate
chronic
karma
robust
2. To describe or picture in words - to detail
copious
caustic
clemency
delineate
3. To erase - to rub away the features - to obscure
fledgling
efface
novel
pariah
4. Emotionally moving
saccharine
prolific
tirade
poignant
5. Concise - brief - free of extra words
terse
reprehensible
eulogize
indigenous
6. To give up something as a penalty for some error or crime
forfeit
stagnate
gratuitous
grovel
7. Clumsy - awkward - incompetent
baroque
inept
infamy
prolific
8. Winding - twisting - full of curves
jeopardy
winsome
tortuous
catharsis
9. To infer on minimal grounds - conjecture - suppose
guile
surmise
lucid
resplendent
10. Limited in outlook - narrow in ideas
gamut
surfeit
junction
provincial
11. To make an ugly disapproving facial expression
vivacious
insipid
grimace
verbose
12. To prevent from being accomplished - to frustrate - to hinder
augment
depravity
thwart
gratuitous
13. The remains of something that no longer exists
vestige
hiatus
poignant
succinct
14. Gentle - not harmful - kind
exalt
immaterial
benign
didactic
15. Glowing - bright - emitting light
delude
luminous
tepid
relegate
16. Program - things to be done
theology
agenda
permeate
imminent
17. Flimsy - extremely thin - having little substance - lacking stability
agenda
lax
esoteric
tenuous
18. Reverent - devout - dutiful - may at times be marked by hypocrisy
pious
pivotal
nullify
dearth
19. Lively - spirited
vivacious
exorbitant
infamy
novel
20. Tasteless - dull
sardonic
vapid
herald
temperance
21. The full range of something
jeopardy
prosaic
gamut
plausible
22. A trick or deceptive scheme
winsome
stratagem
benediction
ebb
23. To sparkle - to gleam - to be animated or brilliant
scintillate
galvanize
digress
jeopardy
24. To study - to read over leisurely
abdicate
peruse
guile
expunge
25. Something handed down from the past - a bequest
aesthetic
stoic
legacy
homage
26. An opening move - a preliminary offer
vivacious
flourish
overture
hiatus
27. A denunciation - a biting speech
diatribe
prosaic
polemic
relegate
28. A government in which the power is in the hands of only a few
jaunt
banal
inhibit
oligarchy
29. About to occur - hanging threateningly over one's head
vehement
nemesis
imminent
obscure
30. Loud - harsh - grating
osmosis
strident
foray
convey
31. To defame - to slander - to blacken the character of
palatable
egocentric
vilify
buffoon
32. A group - or part of a large group - united on an issue
emigrate
succinct
faction
intrepid
33. Beginning to be - in an early stage
incipient
dogmatic
succinct
elucidate
34. To gather and store away - to acquire by effort
garner
rustic
listless
tortuous
35. Without a permanent home - constantly wandering
nomadic
tentative
raucous
guise
36. Not disputable - not open to question
incontrovertible
emissary
saccharine
vivacious
37. Exposure to danger - peril
jeopardy
lament
ogle
baroque
38. A principle - doctrine or belief held as so by a group
clique
imminent
blithe
tenet
39. Boisterous - harsh sounding - noisy and disorderly
raucous
bracing
colloquial
ogle
40. To lie inactive - to stay in one place
delineate
imminent
respite
stagnate
41. A puzzle - a baffling situation - something obscure
quell
enigma
fluke
callous
42. To remove from consideration
table
pivotal
heresy
placate
43. Happening by chance - lucky or fortunate
virulent
hiatus
fortuitous
indigent
44. Careless - too relaxed
lax
clemency
dormant
emigrate
45. Submissive - behaving like a slave
oligarchy
quaint
temperance
servile
46. Something that is unchangeable - permanent
tirade
immutable
jeopardy
advocate
47. (adj.) invigorating; (v.) to prepare
bracing
tentative
delude
efface
48. Clown or fool
fawning
blanch
buffoon
circumspect
49. A place of meeting or joining - a linkup
imminent
listless
stymie
junction
50. Poverty stricken - needy
deference
junction
wanton
indigent