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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. Overly sentimental
covet
perfidious
maudlin
prowess
2. Fearful - easily frightened
timorous
patina
extirpate
philistine
3. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
fusillade
habeas corpus
elan
halitosis
4. Squalid - a slovenly woman
philistine
ignominious
slatternly
zephyr
5. A disaster or violent breakdown
milieu
niggardly
debacle
interregnum
6. Lustful - lascivious
libidinous
pallid
apocryphal
assiduous
7. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
aggrieve
alchemy
veracious
omnivorous
8. Marked with thin lines or grooves
alacrity
striated
peregrination
abrogate
9. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
apocryphal
onerous
propinquity
bandy
10. A fake medication
aggrieve
placebo
lassitude
muckrake
11. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
feckless
cogitate
nonplus
sine qua non
12. A procession - a group of attendants
gerrymander
sycophant
zephyr
cortege
13. A dominant or recurring theme
leitmotif
concomitant
bacchanal
reprobate
14. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
simper
behemoth
contentious
15. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
omniscient
protean
ennui
determinism
16. Disgraceful and dishonorable
husbandry
ignominious
recalcitrant
temerity
17. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
adumbrate
interregnum
diaspora
bilious
18. To tolerate - to put up with something
brook
draconian
behemoth
diaspora
19. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
panegyric
junta
nascent
abscond
20. Whim - an unpredictable action
mellifluous
vagary
rarefied
simper
21. Sneaky - secret
elan
homeopathy
macerate
surreptitious
22. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
assignation
scotch
mendacious
reprobate
23. To wish for with envy
obdurate
chimerical
covet
forswear
24. Award or honor - high praise
opus
bowdlerize
accolade
savant
25. Occurring during the day - happens every day
castigate
halitosis
diurnal
onerous
26. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
parsimonious
umbrage
chary
27. The mood or spirit of the times
zeitgeist
akimbo
noisome
determinism
28. Subsidiary - subordinate
abrogate
apocryphal
feral
ancillary
29. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
assiduous
savant
patina
vicarious
30. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
saturnine
miasma
diaspora
wizened
31. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
ensconce
dossier
raffish
philistine
32. A wealthy - influential person
niggardly
nabob
zeitgeist
malapropism
33. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
pluralism
gamin
prescient
34. To impede - restrain - hamper
feral
fetter
accouterments
besmirch
35. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
anomie
dulcet
husbandry
hoary
36. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
viscosity
protean
myopia
wont
37. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
miasma
anomie
aggrieve
phantasm
38. A system of natural healing
plebeian
sally
homeopathy
bumptious
39. All knowing - infinite awareness
vagary
bacchanal
omniscient
sangfroid
40. Burden - blame - obligation
oeuvre
sycophant
insouciant
onus
41. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
supercilious
temerity
zephyr
malfeasance
42. To weaken - to sap the strength
macerate
enervate
scofflaw
abstruse
43. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
histrionic
veneer
niggardly
largess
44. To run at a steady - easy pace
bilious
lope
garrulous
wastrel
45. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
fecund
machination
dilettante
perorate
46. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
ossify
vagary
capricious
malapropism
47. Deception or trickery
chicanery
apostasy
encomium
moribund
48. An inferior substitute
prurient
gainsay
sangfroid
ersatz
49. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
ethnocentric
depredate
perspicacious
rapprochement
50. Merry - gleeful
abrogate
mirthful
privation
deleterious