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SAT Word Power
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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. Seriousness
gravity
reprove
trite
winsome
2. Without a permanent home - constantly wandering
servile
nomadic
virulent
flourish
3. To criticize severely
abysmal
provincial
chastise
digress
4. Yearning - sad longing - a gentle desire
opaque
wistful
immutable
exacerbate
5. Indifferent - a lack of energy - spiritless
compatible
allusion
listless
laud
6. An interval of rest - a temporary delay
eclectic
urbane
respite
abysmal
7. Constant - lasting a long time
harbinger
chronic
copious
virulent
8. Clear - easily understood
garner
lucid
magnanimous
vie
9. A shortage
tenet
tumult
replenish
dearth
10. An object associated with a saint - something that remains from the past
inhibit
harbinger
relic
nemesis
11. Glowing - bright - emitting light
junction
luminous
acquiesce
buffoon
12. As though asleep - not actively growing
dormant
desecrate
rebuke
fodder
13. Happily - lighthearted - joyful
dogmatic
quintessential
reprehensible
blithe
14. Clown or fool
buffoon
meander
capitulate
peruse
15. Careful - thought through
circumspect
augment
robust
tepid
16. Charming - interesting
deference
engaging
intrepid
myriad
17. To swarm - to be inundated - to become full to overflowing
junction
botch
acquiesce
teem
18. A puzzle - a baffling situation - something obscure
tortuous
deft
enigma
discerning
19. Careless - remiss
scintillate
negligent
gratuitous
reprove
20. Greatly demanding - requiring close attention
impotent
exacting
clemency
lament
21. To erase - to rub away the features - to obscure
poignant
efface
stagnate
harbinger
22. To gather and store away - to acquire by effort
benediction
garner
irreverent
deference
23. Pleasantly old-fashioned - picturesque
exorbitant
quaint
zenith
conviction
24. Difficult to see through - unclear - dark
opportunist
tirade
cursory
opaque
25. Making sense - organized and logical
provincial
coherent
rebuke
nuance
26. Uncertain - temporary not fully worked out
volatile
tentative
dogmatic
fledgling
27. A blessing - a good wish
obliterate
gratuitous
inept
benediction
28. A place of meeting or joining - a linkup
junction
odyssey
usurp
emulate
29. Scarcity - smallness in number or amount
oligarchy
facade
tenuous
paucity
30. The remains of something that no longer exists
genteel
pique
vestige
incipient
31. To cover - to enclose with a dark cover
enshroud
egregious
dormant
palatable
32. Boring - tiresome
odyssey
elucidate
tedious
zenith
33. A group - or part of a large group - united on an issue
heresy
faction
unilateral
pretentious
34. Showing indifference to pain - apathetic
stoic
precept
abridge
verbose
35. To place side by side
juxtapose
vie
moot
animosity
36. False - fake - not genuine
spurious
succinct
feign
wistful
37. Noble in spirit - generous - giving
rescind
magnanimous
homogeneous
extol
38. To criticize or reprimand sharply
tumult
obscure
zealot
rebuke
39. Moral corruption
obscure
embellish
inept
depravity
40. To praise - to applaud - to extol
laud
hyperbole
candor
futile
41. To weaken the support of - to injure in a slow or sneaky way
undermine
pivotal
cache
quaint
42. Wise - showing judgment - cautious
efface
judicious
turpitude
virulent
43. Biting in humor
unilateral
permeate
caustic
jargon
44. Insignificant - unimportant
cache
expunge
immaterial
inhibit
45. Sluggish - laziness - indolence
delineate
exalt
sloth
pique
46. To gather together something for a purpose - to arrange in order
meander
marshal
tenuous
poignant
47. Insignificant - trifling
amnesty
resplendent
judicious
nominal
48. To lie inactive - to stay in one place
replenish
stratagem
levity
stagnate
49. A chance event - a coincidence - a stroke of luck
fluke
verbose
enshroud
dogmatic
50. Showy - self-important - make unjustifiable claims to excellence
pretentious
exalt
enigma
laud