SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
SAT Word Power Harder
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. Having foresight
ascetic
prescient
bandy
largess
2. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
veracious
trice
bathos
forswear
3. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
sui generis
arbiter
piquant
habeas corpus
4. To muse upon
niggardly
libation
dossier
ruminate
5. Lacking color - wan
pallid
behemoth
impugn
contentious
6. To tolerate - to put up with something
panegyric
remuneration
brook
nabob
7. Dishonest - deceitful
endemic
enervate
ennui
mendacious
8. Truthful - honest
spelunker
cortege
veracious
tendentious
9. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
placebo
ignominious
zephyr
10. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
profligate
syllogism
myopia
bathos
11. Accompanying - attending - going along with
machination
ersatz
concomitant
surreptitious
12. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
temporize
lope
abscond
13. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
noisome
tendentious
homeopathy
usury
14. A remedy that cures everything
opus
hoary
assiduous
panacea
15. To dry out
perfidious
piquant
desiccate
penultimate
16. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
itinerant
wastrel
homeopathy
elan
17. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
elliptical
apogee
usury
inveterate
18. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
muckrake
besmirch
insouciant
pallid
19. Bad breath
mercurial
halitosis
cortege
reprobate
20. Covered with green plants - leafy
vicarious
conflagration
nonplus
verdant
21. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
sinuous
elan
neophyte
22. Hard to understand or grasp
adjure
abstruse
acquit
impervious
23. Stubborn
sangfroid
obdurate
veneer
facetious
24. Oval - obscure in expression
irascible
malfeasance
elliptical
portent
25. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
ascetic
miasma
inchoate
nihilism
26. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
feral
portent
ossify
rubric
27. State of rest or inactivity
penury
quiescence
veneer
byzantine
28. To leave quickly and secretively
abscond
maudlin
parsimonious
placebo
29. Turmoil
ruminate
gerrymander
sturm and drang
hidebound
30. Urgent - demands prompt action
surreptitious
gesticulate
exigent
abrogate
31. To deviate from the truth
gird
fey
alchemy
prevaricate
32. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
halitosis
prowess
machination
antipodal
33. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
enervate
apocryphal
panacea
spelunker
34. Without money - penniless
gamin
bumptious
impecunious
simper
35. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
striated
profligate
fusillade
redoubtable
36. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
sangfroid
prescient
simper
petulant
37. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
concomitant
wizened
gamin
cataclysm
38. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
sally
perfunctory
martinet
niggardly
39. An expedition - wandering
probity
disquiet
spelunker
peregrination
40. A large - disastrous fire
enervate
brook
plebeian
conflagration
41. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
provenance
coterie
erudite
gestalt
42. Lustful - lascivious
abscond
endemic
surreptitious
libidinous
43. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
venerate
libidinous
myopia
alchemy
44. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
cogitate
assignation
apoplexy
nascent
45. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
malfeasance
depredate
raffish
temerity
46. Fertile - productive - fruitful
fecund
lope
chicanery
exemplar
47. To give off - to conceal
umbrage
paradigm
noisome
secrete
48. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
nepotism
placebo
panegyric
determinism
49. To wish for with envy
rapprochement
stalwart
covet
bacchanal
50. Award or honor - high praise
impugn
diurnal
veneer
accolade