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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. To muse upon
spate
propinquity
ruminate
desiccate
2. Next to last
cogitate
penultimate
contentious
myopia
3. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
chimerical
inveterate
dichotomy
abstruse
4. Hostile - aggressive - savage
impervious
truculent
gerrymander
putrefy
5. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
recidivism
petulant
ribald
6. A file of documents - letters and records
sine qua non
sagacious
dossier
plebeian
7. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
circumlocution
capricious
alacrity
propinquity
8. The mood or spirit of the times
libation
zeitgeist
elan
temerity
9. Environment - surroundings
abeyance
gerrymander
milieu
perfunctory
10. Custom - habit
sinuous
leitmotif
wont
fecund
11. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
foment
palliate
comport
fetter
12. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
impervious
contentious
omnivorous
inveterate
13. Lustful - lascivious
bacchanal
abscond
libidinous
prevaricate
14. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
draconian
libation
inchoate
descry
15. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
inveterate
machination
titular
largess
16. To make uneasy
garrulous
wizened
disquiet
saturnine
17. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
assignation
effete
husbandry
sagacious
18. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
milieu
ribald
salubrious
akimbo
19. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
parsimonious
determinism
inchoate
remuneration
20. Talkative
intransigent
mendacious
garrulous
byzantine
21. Animals
endemic
panacea
decimate
fauna
22. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
muckrake
zeitgeist
remuneration
saturnine
23. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
pregnant
profligate
cogitate
24. Careful - cautious - wary
verdant
chary
insouciant
prevaricate
25. Wildly fanciful - absurd
impugn
chimerical
imbroglio
doggerel
26. Relating to dress or fashion
recidivism
cachet
sartorial
forswear
27. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
spate
diurnal
ancillary
apostasy
28. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
vitriolic
tendentious
savant
phantasm
29. To run at a steady - easy pace
aegis
itinerant
implacable
lope
30. Extreme poverty
penury
besmirch
fecund
onus
31. Moving from place to place
itinerant
perfunctory
mellifluous
sally
32. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
protean
penultimate
endemic
33. Native - belonging to a specific region
parsimonious
recidivism
endemic
inchoate
34. To bewilder - to puzzle
zephyr
histrionic
nonplus
prepossess
35. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
reprobate
slatternly
sangfroid
ennui
36. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
nirvana
veneer
antipodal
vacuous
37. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
clout
draconian
prurient
sui generis
38. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
mendacious
halitosis
propinquity
39. To confuse - deceive
interregnum
slatternly
discomfit
enervate
40. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
byzantine
ossify
interregnum
perorate
41. Generous
bacchanal
debacle
comport
munificent
42. Displeasure or resentment - shade
umbrage
aegis
phantasm
impugn
43. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
imbroglio
opus
histrionic
junta
44. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
habeas corpus
obsequious
palliate
perfidious
45. Boastful - pompous
peregrination
vainglorious
assignation
striated
46. Honesty - uprightness
privation
sine qua non
sui generis
probity
47. A drunken reveler or orgy
adjure
nihilism
bacchanal
extirpate
48. A wealthy - influential person
nabob
prevaricate
sylvan
ribald
49. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
pluralism
sally
gamin
junta
50. To weaken - to sap the strength
onerous
pregnant
enervate
debacle