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SAT Word Power Harder
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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.
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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. Careful - cautious - wary
byzantine
chary
viscosity
debacle
2. Forest-like - wooded
sylvan
repartee
elan
facetious
3. A beginner - a novice
undulate
abrogate
neophyte
nascent
4. Deception or trickery
penultimate
chicanery
libation
encomium
5. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
facetious
ameliorate
peregrination
6. To kill or destroy a large part of
conflagration
extirpate
decimate
cabal
7. A cave explorer
paradigm
spelunker
elliptical
castigate
8. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
accouterments
bilious
paradigm
gestalt
9. Shriveled - withered
junta
wizened
libation
macerate
10. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
libation
malapropism
portent
neophyte
11. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
miasma
provenance
prowess
perorate
12. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
lassitude
philistine
rarefied
alchemy
13. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
anathema
temerity
prevaricate
maudlin
14. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
ambulatory
nirvana
imbroglio
arbiter
15. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
verdant
scotch
ensconce
16. Talkative
propinquity
garrulous
scofflaw
vicarious
17. Retract - renounce or recant
adumbrate
propinquity
forswear
bivouac
18. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
profligate
adumbrate
gerrymander
mordant
19. Burden - blame - obligation
bumptious
onus
mordant
encomium
20. A drunken reveler or orgy
placebo
levee
bacchanal
iniquitous
21. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
secrete
ethnocentric
sally
inchoate
22. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
sinuous
capricious
malfeasance
obdurate
23. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
cogitate
compunction
temerity
mordant
24. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
sallow
putrefy
interregnum
malapropism
25. Vulgar or indecent language
gerrymander
ossify
ribald
maudlin
26. A disaster or violent breakdown
redoubtable
abstruse
debacle
evanescent
27. Wildly fanciful - absurd
chimerical
mirthful
placebo
gerrymander
28. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
wizened
largess
conflagration
ambulatory
29. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
omniscient
spelunker
malapropism
pluralism
30. To bewilder - to puzzle
desiccate
philistine
nonplus
palliate
31. One who adheres strictly to rules
dossier
martinet
reprobate
itinerant
32. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
pluralism
calumny
adumbrate
officious
33. State of rest or inactivity
iniquitous
synergy
surreptitious
quiescence
34. A remedy that cures everything
ascetic
probity
abeyance
panacea
35. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
implacable
adjure
feral
arbiter
36. Nearness in place or time - kinship
gesticulate
trice
juggernaut
propinquity
37. Dishonest - deceitful
fusillade
plebeian
draconian
mendacious
38. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
intransigent
toothsome
diurnal
39. To enroll - most particularly in college
hoary
matriculate
scofflaw
espy
40. Subsidiary - subordinate
ancillary
striated
opprobrious
disquiet
41. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
bumptious
scotch
prepossess
alchemy
42. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
pregnant
diaspora
doff
belie
43. To behave
comport
aegis
itinerant
disquiet
44. To wish for with envy
covet
miasma
phantasm
ennui
45. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
ignominious
garrulous
impervious
perquisite
46. To tolerate - to put up with something
brook
gestalt
depredate
veracious
47. Faithless - untrustworthy
foment
perfidious
prepossess
apoplexy
48. Full-figured - plump
zaftig
opus
descry
rife
49. To invest with authority - to brace
gird
perquisite
feckless
apoplexy
50. Drowsy - sleepy
portent
somnolent
iniquitous
trice