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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
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. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
draconian
mordant
tony
2. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
zaftig
surreptitious
penury
supercilious
3. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
rout
behemoth
coterie
habeas corpus
4. An expedition - wandering
cataclysm
peregrination
verdant
stalwart
5. Winding - having many curves
apogee
temerity
habeas corpus
sinuous
6. One who adheres strictly to rules
juggernaut
ribald
martinet
coterie
7. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
penultimate
ennui
abscond
anathema
8. A model or example
flagellate
obdurate
moribund
paradigm
9. Favorable to health
officious
apostasy
cogitate
salubrious
10. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
compunction
fusillade
phantasm
opprobrious
11. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
temporize
puissance
rout
12. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
chary
decimate
adumbrate
reprobate
13. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
redoubtable
portent
determinism
phlegmatic
14. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
sylvan
cataclysm
belie
forswear
15. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
doff
feral
behemoth
castigate
16. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
milieu
penultimate
rarefied
forswear
17. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
putrefy
leitmotif
mordant
18. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
titular
leitmotif
behemoth
ennui
19. Common - vulgar - low class
lassitude
plebeian
libation
spelunker
20. To run at a steady - easy pace
macerate
pregnant
lope
gird
21. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
protean
conflagration
parsimonious
apostasy
22. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
cachet
abstinence
opprobrious
diurnal
23. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
prurient
sine qua non
draconian
husbandry
24. Subsidiary - subordinate
ancillary
apocryphal
cortege
temporize
25. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
noisome
spelunker
munificent
ensconce
26. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
dissipate
gestalt
sartorial
sangfroid
27. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
opus
dilettante
verdant
28. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
circumlocution
sine qua non
sinuous
bacchanal
29. Payment - recompense
maudlin
inchoate
chimerical
remuneration
30. A cave explorer
spelunker
sagacious
sylvan
zephyr
31. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
sturm and drang
sinuous
remuneration
32. To kill or destroy a large part of
contentious
decimate
cogitate
patois
33. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
patois
assignation
doggerel
nirvana
34. Nearness in place or time - kinship
propinquity
oscillate
supercilious
lassitude
35. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
simper
doff
neophyte
abeyance
36. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
chicanery
putrefy
viscosity
plebeian
37. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
clout
prepossess
sagacious
hidebound
38. To impede - restrain - hamper
interregnum
belie
penultimate
fetter
39. To behave
bathos
comport
brook
castigate
40. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
alchemy
alacrity
synergy
gird
41. Fawning - subservient - servile
obsequious
cortege
oeuvre
feral
42. Careful - cautious - wary
chary
venerate
pregnant
largess
43. A beginner - a novice
neophyte
zephyr
aegis
obsequious
44. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
prurient
mercurial
perfidious
nirvana
45. Lending money at a high interest rate
impervious
maudlin
effete
usury
46. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
mordant
vitriolic
insouciant
abstruse
47. Hard to understand or grasp
prowess
alacrity
fauna
abstruse
48. Boldness - rashness - audacity
secrete
adumbrate
temerity
spelunker
49. A wealthy - influential person
vainglorious
extirpate
adjure
nabob
50. To swing back and forth
oscillate
espy
synergy
penultimate