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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
libidinous
shibboleth
rout
penury
2. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
prescient
descry
penultimate
adumbrate
3. A large - disastrous fire
conflagration
sinuous
bivouac
ameliorate
4. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
elan
protean
ensconce
punctilious
5. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
temerity
omnivorous
byzantine
contentious
6. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
syllogism
secrete
oscillate
adjure
7. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
impugn
ameliorate
rarefied
belie
8. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
officious
apogee
rife
fetter
9. Native - belonging to a specific region
macerate
adjure
ameliorate
endemic
10. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
garrulous
flagellate
accouterments
verdant
11. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
perspicacious
dilettante
reprobate
machination
12. Stubborn
obdurate
exemplar
oeuvre
profligate
13. A gentle breeze
cabal
abstinence
nepotism
zephyr
14. A re-establishment of good relations
wont
rapprochement
penury
encomium
15. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
veneer
ascetic
slatternly
perfunctory
16. Slander - deliberate false statements
matriculate
concomitant
calumny
leitmotif
17. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
ossify
opus
muckrake
alchemy
18. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
apocryphal
husbandry
opus
temporize
19. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
apogee
penury
endemic
circumlocution
20. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
dulcet
gesticulate
prevaricate
acquit
21. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
obsequious
aegis
feral
interregnum
22. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
myopia
abrogate
doggerel
prepossess
23. 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
repartee
diaspora
hidebound
gird
24. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
abeyance
ennui
recidivism
fusillade
25. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
discomfit
pluralism
palliate
philistine
26. Able to walk or move about
ambulatory
tony
ruminate
apocryphal
27. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
lassitude
apoplexy
libidinous
saturnine
28. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
gestalt
panegyric
adjure
elan
29. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
fusillade
dulcet
omnivorous
hidebound
30. To enroll - most particularly in college
feckless
belie
matriculate
synergy
31. To kill or destroy a large part of
noisome
matriculate
decimate
adjure
32. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
fecund
behemoth
juggernaut
simper
33. To confuse - deceive
onus
discomfit
prurient
patois
34. To behave
maudlin
scofflaw
comport
arbiter
35. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
cavil
ascetic
phantasm
capricious
36. Generous
wizened
leitmotif
munificent
abstruse
37. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
capricious
martinet
bandy
neophyte
38. Subsidiary - subordinate
determinism
evanescent
placebo
ancillary
39. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
machination
effete
savant
bivouac
40. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
abstruse
shibboleth
apoplexy
viscosity
41. A temporary encampment
bivouac
calumny
aggrieve
philistine
42. To deny - to speak or act against
covet
macerate
byzantine
gainsay
43. Vulgar or indecent language
perfidious
brook
petulant
ribald
44. To rot
halitosis
draconian
putrefy
neophyte
45. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
apocryphal
miasma
verdant
46. A massive - unstoppable object
timorous
juggernaut
piquant
bumptious
47. To make better - to ease or improve
ameliorate
apogee
prescient
fusillade
48. Stingy - small in a mean way
vagary
niggardly
opprobrious
leitmotif
49. Drowsy - sleepy
erudite
synergy
toothsome
somnolent
50. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
veneer
zephyr
dissipate
sally