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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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1. To dry out
remuneration
malfeasance
desiccate
nirvana
2. To run counter to - to show something as false
spate
gamin
debacle
belie
3. Honesty - uprightness
scotch
rout
probity
verdant
4. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
mordant
reprobate
wastrel
paradigm
5. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
mirthful
insouciant
gamin
acquit
6. Heading - title - category
rubric
dulcet
perfidious
gestalt
7. Wise - shrewd
flagellate
gesticulate
sagacious
depredate
8. Being in a dying or decaying condition
apocryphal
accouterments
moribund
vainglorious
9. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
malapropism
noisome
impecunious
10. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
behemoth
dichotomy
extirpate
privation
11. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
bilious
bumptious
perspicacious
abrogate
12. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
myopia
foment
compunction
hidebound
13. Division into two often contradictory parts
lassitude
adumbrate
ancillary
dichotomy
14. State of rest or inactivity
reprobate
portent
enervate
quiescence
15. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
prurient
palliate
sui generis
obdurate
16. Forest-like - wooded
nepotism
comport
usury
sylvan
17. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
myopia
conflagration
portent
ribald
18. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
slatternly
nonplus
flagellate
inveterate
19. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
punctilious
insouciant
compunction
dulcet
20. Merry - gleeful
arbiter
junta
dilettante
mirthful
21. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
recalcitrant
nihilism
placebo
largess
22. Next to last
coterie
penultimate
dulcet
levee
23. Talkative
chicanery
penultimate
garrulous
fetter
24. To swing back and forth
prurient
oscillate
putrefy
apostasy
25. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
flagellate
nonplus
malapropism
recidivism
26. To make better - to ease or improve
ameliorate
cavil
largess
pluralism
27. The act of repeating an offense
trice
mendacious
recidivism
mellifluous
28. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
gird
dissipate
ensconce
castigate
29. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
munificent
cogitate
impugn
deleterious
30. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
stalwart
libidinous
apocryphal
clout
31. To enroll - most particularly in college
matriculate
enervate
assiduous
belie
32. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
dulcet
surreptitious
reprobate
venerate
33. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
aggrieve
vitriolic
oscillate
halitosis
34. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
nabob
doff
rubric
panacea
35. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
cataclysm
determinism
placebo
mendacious
36. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
chimerical
apostasy
lassitude
palliate
37. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
lassitude
miasma
punctilious
draconian
38. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
dilettante
oeuvre
somnolent
wastrel
39. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
recondite
covet
munificent
saturnine
40. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
intransigent
martinet
determinism
castigate
41. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
supercilious
cavil
histrionic
chicanery
42. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
phantasm
diaspora
extirpate
abstinence
43. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
milieu
perquisite
onus
cavil
44. Squalid - a slovenly woman
slatternly
simper
patina
paradigm
45. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
depredate
ethnocentric
wizened
prevaricate
46. A large - disastrous fire
coterie
calumny
conflagration
chicanery
47. Fertile - productive - fruitful
assiduous
omnivorous
moribund
fecund
48. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
gerrymander
anathema
abeyance
sylvan
49. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
gerrymander
behemoth
elan
implacable
50. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
reprobate
sallow
omnivorous
covet