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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.
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. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
recalcitrant
ameliorate
effete
moribund
2. Hardworking - busy - diligent
truculent
akimbo
assiduous
opprobrious
3. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
dissipate
philistine
bowdlerize
4. To make better - to ease or improve
protean
synergy
ameliorate
malapropism
5. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
histrionic
habeas corpus
bumptious
accouterments
6. To give off - to conceal
truculent
secrete
miasma
comport
7. To bewilder - to puzzle
slatternly
levee
itinerant
nonplus
8. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
tony
pluralism
palliate
erudite
9. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
erudite
sententious
diaspora
omnivorous
10. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
doff
nascent
adjure
prowess
11. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
capricious
interregnum
conflagration
doff
12. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
capricious
sallow
penultimate
paradigm
13. To invest with authority - to brace
belie
gird
ascetic
habeas corpus
14. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
redoubtable
bon vivant
impervious
venerate
15. Fertile - productive - fruitful
timorous
fecund
tony
maudlin
16. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
rout
abrogate
onerous
17. Stubborn
obdurate
conflagration
zephyr
miasma
18. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
usury
sturm and drang
stalwart
covet
19. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
impervious
dissipate
salubrious
exemplar
20. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
dossier
alchemy
veracious
ribald
21. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malapropism
wizened
akimbo
macerate
22. Marked with thin lines or grooves
slatternly
perspicacious
striated
gamin
23. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
supercilious
cogitate
assignation
undulate
24. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
oeuvre
bathos
pregnant
phantasm
25. Environment - surroundings
milieu
sui generis
bowdlerize
mendacious
26. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
mordant
bumptious
bowdlerize
debacle
27. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
depredate
tendentious
assiduous
libation
28. Oval - obscure in expression
aggrieve
fusillade
apostasy
elliptical
29. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
reprobate
penury
placebo
contentious
30. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
rarefied
shibboleth
espy
scotch
31. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
perfidious
vagary
vicarious
hidebound
32. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
deleterious
feckless
probity
histrionic
33. Deception or trickery
temerity
akimbo
chicanery
mordant
34. Boldness - rashness - audacity
feral
dissipate
petulant
temerity
35. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
desiccate
histrionic
philistine
rout
36. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
libidinous
fecund
nihilism
ribald
37. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
aegis
inveterate
pluralism
syllogism
38. Urgent - demands prompt action
profligate
tendentious
exigent
pregnant
39. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
philistine
striated
feral
ambulatory
40. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
encomium
protean
sartorial
impervious
41. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
cataclysm
probity
opus
effete
42. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
phlegmatic
habeas corpus
privation
sally
43. A wealthy - influential person
facetious
capricious
nabob
acquit
44. A procession - a group of attendants
paradigm
cortege
obdurate
abrogate
45. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
capricious
dichotomy
tony
perorate
46. An apparition - phantom
assignation
synergy
phantasm
gesticulate
47. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
junta
alacrity
bacchanal
behemoth
48. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
homeopathy
prurient
insouciant
bowdlerize
49. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
impervious
espy
dossier
dilettante
50. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
rapprochement
phlegmatic
bacchanal
prowess