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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
histrionic
stalwart
alacrity
apoplexy
2. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
fusillade
inveterate
draconian
perfidious
3. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
ethnocentric
cataclysm
feckless
feral
4. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
aegis
rarefied
wastrel
noisome
5. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
veneer
fey
tendentious
vitriolic
6. Careful - cautious - wary
nonplus
chary
verdant
perspicacious
7. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
assignation
oeuvre
vicarious
profligate
8. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
panegyric
abrogate
obsequious
anathema
9. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
bacchanal
impecunious
adjure
omnivorous
10. Lustful - lascivious
forswear
penury
sartorial
libidinous
11. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
diaspora
reticent
quiescence
imbroglio
12. To invest with authority - to brace
forswear
vicarious
rout
gird
13. Influence - a forceful blow
syllogism
rubric
levee
clout
14. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
spate
assignation
omniscient
15. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
implacable
sturm and drang
insouciant
exigent
16. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
lope
cabal
wastrel
reticent
17. Fearful - easily frightened
foment
dulcet
rife
timorous
18. Honesty - uprightness
accouterments
exigent
peregrination
probity
19. To deny - to speak or act against
deleterious
gainsay
byzantine
assignation
20. All knowing - infinite awareness
privation
encomium
circumlocution
omniscient
21. To confuse - deceive
fey
ribald
machination
discomfit
22. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
cataclysm
temerity
petulant
provenance
23. Environment - surroundings
adumbrate
bon vivant
temporize
milieu
24. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
accouterments
toothsome
protean
paradigm
25. A cave explorer
truculent
timorous
spelunker
rife
26. Nearness in place or time - kinship
mercurial
recidivism
propinquity
husbandry
27. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
abrogate
adumbrate
pluralism
synergy
28. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
bathos
bumptious
usury
obsequious
29. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
syllogism
arbiter
perfidious
ossify
30. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
omniscient
petulant
hidebound
zaftig
31. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
striated
surreptitious
sycophant
zephyr
32. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
chimerical
bilious
onerous
alchemy
33. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
habeas corpus
junta
lassitude
aegis
34. To stir up - to incite
foment
gesticulate
apostasy
aegis
35. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
juggernaut
phlegmatic
espy
vitriolic
36. Hostile - aggressive - savage
mordant
cogitate
truculent
aegis
37. Division into two often contradictory parts
abeyance
interregnum
dichotomy
plebeian
38. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
onus
veracious
descry
wastrel
39. A creative work - musical composition
rife
largess
opus
trice
40. Displeasure or resentment - shade
titular
sine qua non
umbrage
evanescent
41. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
abrogate
scotch
fusillade
42. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
apostasy
tony
depredate
libidinous
43. Dishonest - deceitful
besmirch
juggernaut
mendacious
wont
44. Relating to dress or fashion
sartorial
bilious
insouciant
shibboleth
45. Deception or trickery
chicanery
elliptical
wizened
behemoth
46. To weaken - to sap the strength
veneer
acquit
enervate
gerrymander
47. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
neophyte
palliate
penury
recalcitrant
48. A moment - a short period of time
putrefy
diurnal
trice
implacable
49. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
remuneration
spelunker
temporize
50. Slander - deliberate false statements
calumny
foment
vainglorious
bandy
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