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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. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
prowess
sangfroid
malapropism
tendentious
2. Bad breath
coterie
halitosis
repartee
miasma
3. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
acquit
protean
pluralism
venerate
4. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
fey
striated
rout
noisome
5. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
miasma
raffish
bowdlerize
adumbrate
6. Deception or trickery
elliptical
provenance
chicanery
neophyte
7. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
hidebound
gerrymander
rout
protean
8. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
capricious
myopia
clout
byzantine
9. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
neophyte
plebeian
prowess
10. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
adjure
phlegmatic
apocryphal
erudite
11. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
itinerant
husbandry
spelunker
reticent
12. Accompanying - attending - going along with
penultimate
hoary
concomitant
placebo
13. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
prescient
mordant
dilettante
spelunker
14. Hot-tempered - cranky
irascible
umbrage
rapprochement
parsimonious
15. Favorable to health
shibboleth
salubrious
aggrieve
saturnine
16. An inferior substitute
bivouac
ersatz
effete
rout
17. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
recalcitrant
umbrage
erudite
itinerant
18. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
sturm and drang
sylvan
antipodal
adumbrate
19. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
diurnal
cavil
timorous
puissance
20. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
perspicacious
histrionic
deleterious
sartorial
21. Hardworking - busy - diligent
dossier
assiduous
forswear
accouterments
22. To wish for with envy
recondite
puissance
covet
opprobrious
23. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
bon vivant
rubric
decimate
castigate
24. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
cogitate
machination
stalwart
pallid
25. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
habeas corpus
truculent
surreptitious
provenance
26. To behave
protean
comport
chimerical
zaftig
27. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
obsequious
impugn
myopia
encomium
28. Uncompromising - stubborn
intransigent
bon vivant
homeopathy
depredate
29. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
officious
puissance
ascetic
sally
30. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
zeitgeist
dissipate
akimbo
recalcitrant
31. Hard to understand or grasp
homeopathy
antipodal
abstruse
reprobate
32. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
garrulous
zeitgeist
remuneration
besmirch
33. All knowing - infinite awareness
omniscient
fauna
usury
circumlocution
34. Fertile - productive - fruitful
panacea
fecund
feral
ruminate
35. To swing back and forth
obsequious
prevaricate
facetious
oscillate
36. Stingy
ruminate
deleterious
nonplus
parsimonious
37. To honor - to worship - to respect
calumny
reticent
ribald
venerate
38. Next to last
bowdlerize
cabal
adumbrate
penultimate
39. Custom - habit
depredate
chimerical
ameliorate
wont
40. Sneaky - secret
zephyr
surreptitious
acquit
oscillate
41. Pungent - charmingly provocative
rarefied
bacchanal
halitosis
piquant
42. Being in a dying or decaying condition
zaftig
moribund
impervious
encomium
43. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
reprobate
neophyte
enervate
acquit
44. Without money - penniless
impecunious
accouterments
verdant
recidivism
45. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
sally
levee
fey
matriculate
46. Native - belonging to a specific region
endemic
macerate
hidebound
omniscient
47. Dishonest - deceitful
onus
aggrieve
hidebound
mendacious
48. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
apocryphal
decimate
draconian
supercilious
49. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
perquisite
pluralism
flagellate
paradigm
50. Displeasure or resentment - shade
dulcet
umbrage
dichotomy
perspicacious