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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. Full-figured - plump
elan
zaftig
gerrymander
apostasy
2. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
bacchanal
dilettante
perquisite
3. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
hidebound
savant
circumlocution
cataclysm
4. Hardworking - busy - diligent
pluralism
spelunker
assiduous
sally
5. Stingy
calumny
accouterments
parsimonious
dulcet
6. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
zephyr
pregnant
elan
petulant
7. A system of natural healing
doff
homeopathy
somnolent
penultimate
8. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
puissance
arbiter
descry
espy
9. Relating to dress or fashion
forswear
sartorial
rout
machination
10. Merry - gleeful
nabob
obsequious
mirthful
patois
11. Moving from place to place
itinerant
imbroglio
stalwart
putrefy
12. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
apogee
repartee
puissance
zephyr
13. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
slatternly
nihilism
lope
zaftig
14. A remedy that cures everything
flagellate
veneer
byzantine
panacea
15. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
libation
onerous
histrionic
fetter
16. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
veneer
abstruse
diaspora
capricious
17. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
saturnine
antipodal
dilettante
ignominious
18. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
ossify
forswear
palliate
accouterments
19. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
recidivism
petulant
lassitude
cachet
20. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
sui generis
sycophant
penultimate
21. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
depredate
saturnine
anathema
maudlin
22. An illegal act especially by a public official
ensconce
diurnal
malfeasance
aegis
23. A cave explorer
bathos
juggernaut
spelunker
undulate
24. To stir up - to incite
veracious
homeopathy
perfidious
foment
25. Marked with thin lines or grooves
striated
behemoth
miasma
fauna
26. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
facetious
depredate
temerity
alacrity
27. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
halitosis
determinism
venerate
phlegmatic
28. Burden - blame - obligation
conflagration
propinquity
reticent
onus
29. Careful - cautious - wary
striated
intransigent
chary
elan
30. One who is continually breaking the law
scofflaw
sinuous
abeyance
apocryphal
31. To deny - to speak or act against
secrete
sine qua non
feral
gainsay
32. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
flagellate
myopia
opus
acquit
33. Facade - coating - outward appearance
doff
sangfroid
veneer
concomitant
34. Lustful - lascivious
libidinous
covet
insouciant
ascetic
35. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
dilettante
abeyance
bandy
impecunious
36. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
effete
deleterious
abstruse
matriculate
37. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
bandy
belie
patois
vitriolic
38. To bewilder - to puzzle
placebo
junta
niggardly
nonplus
39. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
sylvan
fey
largess
covet
40. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
abstinence
gird
neophyte
elan
41. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
gainsay
ignominious
pluralism
protean
42. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
zaftig
prurient
halitosis
byzantine
43. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
levee
facetious
largess
implacable
44. 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
coterie
perfidious
ruminate
diaspora
45. A large - disastrous fire
mendacious
apocryphal
portent
conflagration
46. A massive - unstoppable object
juggernaut
impecunious
assignation
halitosis
47. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
privation
portent
prurient
prescient
48. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
mercurial
neophyte
abrogate
49. Next to last
penultimate
reprobate
compunction
bathos
50. To weaken - to sap the strength
mellifluous
penury
enervate
habeas corpus