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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
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. Evil - unjust
zeitgeist
iniquitous
sangfroid
syllogism
2. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
vicarious
ameliorate
bathos
espy
3. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
alacrity
gerrymander
parsimonious
privation
4. Common - vulgar - low class
abstinence
onerous
plebeian
facetious
5. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
deleterious
repartee
veracious
profligate
6. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
debacle
apogee
intransigent
ascetic
7. Influence - a forceful blow
ignominious
fusillade
clout
desiccate
8. Next to last
penultimate
vitriolic
endemic
levee
9. Turmoil
sturm and drang
sallow
onus
aegis
10. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
salubrious
spate
alchemy
intransigent
11. Shriveled - withered
chimerical
pluralism
wizened
halitosis
12. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
gerrymander
putrefy
ossify
13. Squalid - a slovenly woman
sangfroid
diurnal
vicarious
slatternly
14. To wish for with envy
facetious
prescient
ensconce
covet
15. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
abstruse
draconian
vagary
16. To weaken - to sap the strength
enervate
chicanery
tony
petulant
17. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
feckless
viscosity
placebo
18. Power - strength
venerate
zeitgeist
puissance
libation
19. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
cavil
dilettante
opus
neophyte
20. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
pluralism
calumny
remuneration
elan
21. A file of documents - letters and records
dossier
somnolent
interregnum
besmirch
22. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
onerous
ennui
determinism
vainglorious
23. To dry out
desiccate
libidinous
perspicacious
plebeian
24. To behave
vicarious
castigate
comport
sylvan
25. To muse upon
ruminate
dilettante
largess
inveterate
26. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
insouciant
flagellate
extirpate
elan
27. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
clout
striated
fey
28. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
munificent
rarefied
somnolent
bumptious
29. A moment - a short period of time
dilettante
impugn
besmirch
trice
30. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
bilious
accolade
savant
titular
31. Truthful - honest
ossify
veracious
acquit
ambulatory
32. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
bathos
philistine
ribald
nepotism
33. All knowing - infinite awareness
comport
plebeian
omniscient
sturm and drang
34. Fawning - subservient - servile
malfeasance
prescient
iniquitous
obsequious
35. Fertile - productive - fruitful
fecund
phantasm
dissipate
abstruse
36. To rot
aegis
putrefy
capricious
assiduous
37. An intimate group of people with a common interest
matriculate
pallid
coterie
gird
38. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
recondite
undulate
prescient
veracious
39. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
inchoate
anomie
portent
titular
40. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
portent
privation
cogitate
descry
41. A fake medication
placebo
dossier
prowess
obdurate
42. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
striated
provenance
sinuous
fecund
43. To swing back and forth
vicarious
pallid
exemplar
oscillate
44. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
feral
muckrake
facetious
spate
45. To give off - to conceal
stalwart
compunction
anomie
secrete
46. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
sangfroid
trice
phantasm
flagellate
47. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
slatternly
phantasm
rarefied
flagellate
48. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
gird
abeyance
vitriolic
secrete
49. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
enervate
leitmotif
rarefied
bumptious
50. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
cachet
arbiter
quiescence
endemic