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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. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
inveterate
maudlin
contentious
recalcitrant
2. Covered with green plants - leafy
bandy
nihilism
toothsome
verdant
3. An illegal act especially by a public official
concomitant
paradigm
malfeasance
bowdlerize
4. Stingy
fey
rife
wont
parsimonious
5. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
habeas corpus
bivouac
apocryphal
obsequious
6. Hostile - aggressive - savage
bacchanal
pregnant
umbrage
truculent
7. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
milieu
munificent
philistine
intransigent
8. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
nepotism
usury
capricious
diaspora
9. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
saturnine
inveterate
anomie
juggernaut
10. A dominant or recurring theme
descry
arbiter
leitmotif
bandy
11. Something that is an essential condition of
sine qua non
piquant
milieu
bon vivant
12. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
aggrieve
fusillade
brook
anathema
13. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
perquisite
veracious
opus
doff
14. Custom - habit
draconian
wont
machination
capricious
15. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
akimbo
milieu
sine qua non
obsequious
16. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
undulate
redoubtable
anomie
doggerel
17. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
tendentious
miasma
discomfit
besmirch
18. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
feckless
recondite
dossier
assignation
19. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
bacchanal
mirthful
saturnine
omnivorous
20. Full-figured - plump
concomitant
prowess
zaftig
truculent
21. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
rarefied
feral
elliptical
ennui
22. A cave explorer
plebeian
apocryphal
dulcet
spelunker
23. Hot-tempered - cranky
neophyte
decimate
irascible
onerous
24. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
bacchanal
habeas corpus
alacrity
abrogate
25. To attack the integrity of something
feral
libidinous
ruminate
impugn
26. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
garrulous
secrete
viscosity
27. Truthful - honest
veracious
espy
anomie
apostasy
28. Accompanying - attending - going along with
extirpate
supercilious
concomitant
privation
29. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
shibboleth
probity
prepossess
nirvana
30. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
perorate
savant
compunction
nirvana
31. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
vagary
libation
wizened
rife
32. Merry - gleeful
belie
foment
mirthful
concomitant
33. To gesture - especially when speaking
tendentious
mordant
gesticulate
vacuous
34. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
accouterments
obdurate
martinet
malfeasance
35. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
undulate
scotch
ethnocentric
perquisite
36. Common - vulgar - low class
arbiter
apoplexy
patois
plebeian
37. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
propinquity
forswear
portent
perorate
38. Squalid - a slovenly woman
slatternly
dichotomy
intransigent
panacea
39. Vulgar or indecent language
ribald
effete
privation
sylvan
40. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
junta
nirvana
penury
41. To bewilder - to puzzle
behemoth
nonplus
anomie
ensconce
42. Stubborn
omniscient
exigent
obdurate
sangfroid
43. Harmful
placebo
intransigent
deleterious
perquisite
44. To honor - to worship - to respect
phlegmatic
vacuous
prepossess
venerate
45. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
slatternly
dilettante
omnivorous
junta
46. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
slatternly
rout
bathos
zeitgeist
47. A large - disastrous fire
diurnal
trice
conflagration
muckrake
48. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
propinquity
gainsay
impecunious
protean
49. Nearness in place or time - kinship
provenance
propinquity
niggardly
lope
50. Sneaky - secret
cabal
surreptitious
descry
apostasy