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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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 smile foolishly
secrete
ancillary
simper
saturnine
2. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
puissance
levee
feckless
bowdlerize
3. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
arbiter
doff
intransigent
4. A temporary suspension of activity
privation
akimbo
abeyance
ribald
5. Vulgar or indecent language
ribald
protean
besmirch
verdant
6. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
deleterious
mirthful
sycophant
7. To make uneasy
disquiet
capricious
interregnum
mercurial
8. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
assignation
sturm and drang
truculent
martinet
9. Moving from place to place
scotch
aggrieve
itinerant
acquit
10. A sudden outburst
mendacious
pluralism
gesticulate
spate
11. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
verdant
ossify
simper
vagary
12. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
encomium
habeas corpus
covet
adjure
13. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
ameliorate
syllogism
spelunker
determinism
14. A creative work - musical composition
prowess
puissance
doff
opus
15. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
gesticulate
timorous
vacuous
16. Award or honor - high praise
dossier
quiescence
adjure
accolade
17. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
apocryphal
adumbrate
rarefied
dulcet
18. An inferior substitute
sylvan
leitmotif
ersatz
remuneration
19. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
tendentious
plebeian
dissipate
20. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
dichotomy
ambulatory
veneer
largess
21. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
behemoth
probity
byzantine
sagacious
22. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
anathema
somnolent
cavil
nonplus
23. Sweetly flowing
slatternly
truculent
vacuous
mellifluous
24. Having foresight
belie
chicanery
fusillade
prescient
25. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
impecunious
hidebound
fauna
26. A re-establishment of good relations
rarefied
prurient
rapprochement
erudite
27. Merry - gleeful
fetter
stalwart
onerous
mirthful
28. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
libidinous
parsimonious
wizened
29. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
wizened
prowess
myopia
exigent
30. An apparition - phantom
obsequious
phantasm
cavil
diurnal
31. To leave quickly and secretively
bivouac
ethnocentric
abscond
cortege
32. Full-figured - plump
slatternly
niggardly
patois
zaftig
33. Truthful - honest
veneer
shibboleth
veracious
stalwart
34. An illegal act especially by a public official
malfeasance
portent
habeas corpus
oscillate
35. Influence - a forceful blow
covet
patois
clout
dichotomy
36. Covered with green plants - leafy
dissipate
bandy
verdant
feckless
37. A disaster or violent breakdown
espy
patina
wont
debacle
38. A judge - one who decides
arbiter
dilettante
alchemy
decimate
39. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
viscosity
sartorial
ethnocentric
effete
40. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
rout
stalwart
philistine
41. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
assiduous
zeitgeist
akimbo
punctilious
42. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
vitriolic
nepotism
circumlocution
bivouac
43. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
tendentious
accouterments
recidivism
44. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
diurnal
fey
recondite
descry
45. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
lassitude
determinism
provenance
compunction
46. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
disquiet
hidebound
perorate
byzantine
47. A model or example
dulcet
paradigm
garrulous
perfunctory
48. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
toothsome
repartee
privation
milieu
49. A remedy that cures everything
panacea
sallow
perquisite
inchoate
50. Being in a dying or decaying condition
moribund
nabob
maudlin
coterie