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SAT Word Power Harder
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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. An excellent model - a typical example
exemplar
castigate
ancillary
vitriolic
2. State of rest or inactivity
junta
ensconce
quiescence
niggardly
3. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
truculent
rout
zeitgeist
bathos
4. Severe - exceedingly harsh
feral
draconian
sturm and drang
flagellate
5. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
spelunker
provenance
prowess
exigent
6. A fake medication
rubric
calumny
placebo
desiccate
7. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
oscillate
paradigm
recondite
salubrious
8. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
vitriolic
dilettante
malfeasance
enervate
9. An intimate group of people with a common interest
puissance
coterie
recalcitrant
determinism
10. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
diaspora
myopia
husbandry
peregrination
11. Fearful - easily frightened
zeitgeist
timorous
petulant
lope
12. A eulogy or expression of high praise
rout
encomium
diaspora
gird
13. Lacking color - wan
patina
pallid
stalwart
paradigm
14. Retract - renounce or recant
forswear
raffish
timorous
surreptitious
15. Wise - shrewd
viscosity
impugn
lassitude
sagacious
16. Award or honor - high praise
accolade
reticent
temporize
prowess
17. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
saturnine
bathos
malfeasance
scotch
18. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
cortege
spelunker
muckrake
19. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
apostasy
disquiet
dichotomy
adjure
20. To leave quickly and secretively
apostasy
abscond
shibboleth
elliptical
21. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
reticent
gerrymander
implacable
propinquity
22. Evil - unjust
circumlocution
surreptitious
iniquitous
plebeian
23. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
impecunious
antipodal
dissipate
miasma
24. To give off - to conceal
secrete
flagellate
supercilious
determinism
25. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
privation
venerate
zephyr
impugn
26. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
viscosity
toothsome
philistine
timorous
27. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
umbrage
piquant
adumbrate
juggernaut
28. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
libation
milieu
fecund
timorous
29. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
rarefied
chicanery
impervious
30. Oval - obscure in expression
truculent
protean
elliptical
castigate
31. To rot
cogitate
abstruse
putrefy
dilettante
32. Hot-tempered - cranky
irascible
ennui
prurient
elan
33. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
spate
bowdlerize
vacuous
akimbo
34. Merry - gleeful
scotch
abeyance
mirthful
recalcitrant
35. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
rarefied
peregrination
shibboleth
determinism
36. Facade - coating - outward appearance
prowess
veneer
titular
vacuous
37. Heading - title - category
matriculate
privation
homeopathy
rubric
38. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
synergy
wastrel
macerate
dossier
39. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
plebeian
cataclysm
alchemy
sangfroid
40. A massive - unstoppable object
juggernaut
saturnine
vagary
dilettante
41. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
debacle
ascetic
husbandry
brook
42. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
coterie
gestalt
bandy
evanescent
43. Dishonest - deceitful
mendacious
rarefied
largess
pregnant
44. Full-figured - plump
prepossess
zaftig
erudite
macerate
45. Common - vulgar - low class
perquisite
somnolent
forswear
plebeian
46. Forest-like - wooded
penultimate
rarefied
sylvan
insouciant
47. Custom - habit
punctilious
perquisite
wont
salubrious
48. To bewilder - to puzzle
nonplus
umbrage
sycophant
obdurate
49. Boldness - rashness - audacity
compunction
temerity
doff
punctilious
50. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
assiduous
assignation
interregnum
zeitgeist