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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. Vulgar or indecent language
onus
vitriolic
timorous
ribald
2. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
besmirch
opus
elan
erudite
3. Facade - coating - outward appearance
moribund
propinquity
assignation
veneer
4. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
dossier
evanescent
mercurial
apostasy
5. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
encomium
milieu
shibboleth
imbroglio
6. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
redoubtable
fecund
noisome
implacable
7. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
placebo
capricious
rife
rout
8. To run at a steady - easy pace
sinuous
prurient
verdant
lope
9. Deception or trickery
chicanery
panacea
gerrymander
prowess
10. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
impervious
plebeian
bumptious
elliptical
11. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
sartorial
reticent
akimbo
punctilious
12. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
panegyric
feckless
apostasy
dissipate
13. A fake medication
veneer
fecund
savant
placebo
14. Severe - exceedingly harsh
stalwart
arbiter
acquit
draconian
15. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
neophyte
portent
acquit
encomium
16. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
abscond
doff
temerity
feckless
17. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
prurient
penury
sally
propinquity
18. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
rout
mellifluous
disquiet
nihilism
19. Division into two often contradictory parts
intransigent
dichotomy
espy
contentious
20. A gentle breeze
juggernaut
vicarious
comport
zephyr
21. Squalid - a slovenly woman
nirvana
slatternly
husbandry
rubric
22. A moment - a short period of time
behemoth
trice
enervate
concomitant
23. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
timorous
elan
doggerel
abeyance
24. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
exemplar
prepossess
undulate
feral
25. A cave explorer
raffish
flagellate
bon vivant
spelunker
26. Wise - shrewd
capricious
sallow
sagacious
recondite
27. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
erudite
perfunctory
miasma
mordant
28. Fawning - subservient - servile
sui generis
obsequious
zaftig
provenance
29. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
recidivism
castigate
rife
30. An intimate group of people with a common interest
venerate
coterie
inchoate
cabal
31. Without money - penniless
accolade
sallow
impecunious
covet
32. Stingy
bivouac
parsimonious
circumlocution
bacchanal
33. Native - belonging to a specific region
leitmotif
fetter
endemic
perfunctory
34. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
ossify
prurient
impervious
recalcitrant
35. A disaster or violent breakdown
irascible
debacle
cortege
iniquitous
36. To kill or destroy a large part of
contentious
histrionic
decimate
bowdlerize
37. To leave quickly and secretively
abscond
brook
imbroglio
veneer
38. The act of repeating an offense
adjure
recidivism
wastrel
hidebound
39. Nearness in place or time - kinship
doff
propinquity
quiescence
mordant
40. Full-figured - plump
zaftig
concomitant
cortege
vitriolic
41. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
doggerel
wastrel
brook
pregnant
42. To distress - to mistreat
endemic
aggrieve
decimate
stalwart
43. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
disquiet
bowdlerize
impugn
ensconce
44. Accompanying - attending - going along with
cachet
concomitant
acquit
spelunker
45. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
phantasm
parsimonious
penury
saturnine
46. All knowing - infinite awareness
sagacious
elliptical
omniscient
facetious
47. Shriveled - withered
perorate
wizened
endemic
inveterate
48. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
gesticulate
feral
perquisite
sartorial
49. A wealthy - influential person
nirvana
nabob
abstinence
obsequious
50. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
desiccate
apocryphal
anathema
protean