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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 move to a new country - to move to a new place
aversion
furtive
emigrate
tortuous
2. Biting in humor
forfeit
eccentric
pivotal
caustic
3. False - fake - not genuine
desecrate
elucidate
plausible
spurious
4. Making sense - organized and logical
coherent
obliterate
abdicate
pivotal
5. An official pardon for a group of people who violate a law
diffuse
amnesty
undermine
terse
6. Without a permanent home - constantly wandering
tout
enshroud
ogle
nomadic
7. To surrender - to stop resisting
capitulate
convey
transfix
fidelity
8. Respect - courtesy
meander
deference
craven
elucidate
9. On one side alone
unilateral
chronic
compatible
imperious
10. To erase - to rub away the features - to obscure
buffoon
jeopardy
efface
clemency
11. To put an end to - to squelch - to calm
quell
tenuous
paucity
criterion
12. Glowing - bright - emitting light
luminous
relegate
lament
fidelity
13. Refined - polite - aristocratic
abysmal
genteel
homage
urbane
14. To make faster or easier - to carry our promptly
volatile
dormant
tenuous
expedite
15. Ill will - active dislike
martyr
blanch
animosity
grimace
16. Disrespectful - gently or humorously mocking
odious
irreverent
philanthropy
steadfast
17. Something used as a defense - a strong protection
bulwark
immutable
tepid
clemency
18. A person who serves only for money - motivated by greed
respite
mercenary
homage
jargon
19. Marked by abundant production or offspring
paucity
steadfast
stagnate
prolific
20. A specialized vocabulary of a group - an obscure language
embellish
jargon
agenda
exacerbate
21. Drawn from many sources
hubris
eclectic
relic
affinity
22. Unimportant - insignificant
legacy
trivial
malaise
sloth
23. Sluggish - laziness - indolence
placate
emigrate
sloth
inept
24. To brag publicly - to praise highly
lax
begrudge
animosity
tout
25. Loyal - faithful
emulate
steadfast
bulwark
embellish
26. Lacking power - helpless - unable to perform sexual intercourse
finesse
impotent
paucity
diva
27. Happily - lighthearted - joyful
facade
aggrandize
acquiesce
blithe
28. To mourn - to express regret
foray
stymie
lament
winsome
29. Truthfulness - great honesty - frankness
aversion
candor
permeate
baroque
30. Gradual or subtle absorption - an unconscious process of absorption
legacy
altruistic
osmosis
insidious
31. Loud - harsh - grating
nemesis
censure
strident
affinity
32. Showing indifference to pain - apathetic
eccentric
fluke
guise
stoic
33. Stationary - not changing or moving
irreverent
static
aggrandize
overture
34. Scarcity - smallness in number or amount
incontrovertible
gamut
paucity
clique
35. Submissive - behaving like a slave
rebuff
dupe
servile
exalt
36. Concise - brief - free of extra words
obliterate
chronic
terse
baroque
37. To spread or seep through - to penetrate - to pervade
catharsis
permeate
advocate
stoic
38. To imitate - to strive to equal
prolific
emulate
vehement
tedious
39. Boringly scholarly - academic in mode
tenuous
coherent
pedantic
rescind
40. Concise - clearly expressed with a few words
broach
succinct
furtive
coherent
41. To weaken the support of - to injure in a slow or sneaky way
undermine
pretentious
abridge
thwart
42. Cunning duplicity - purposeful deceit
guile
gratuitous
overture
imperious
43. A hiding place - something hidden in a secret place
lax
cache
clique
esoteric
44. To come together as one - to fuse or unite
fodder
coalesce
quixotic
vapid
45. Easily deceived
rescind
finesse
stagnate
gullible
46. Insignificant - trifling
junction
botch
amnesty
nominal
47. Able to get along well
benign
compatible
expedite
blanch
48. An initial venture - to raid in search of plunder
penchant
volatile
grovel
foray
49. A dividing wall - a division
pedantic
partition
static
legacy
50. Noble in spirit - generous - giving
gratuitous
magnanimous
efface
cursory