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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. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
rout
intransigent
desiccate
2. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
vitriolic
bivouac
elan
decimate
3. Nearness in place or time - kinship
nepotism
remuneration
propinquity
deleterious
4. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
synergy
sangfroid
perquisite
5. To attack the integrity of something
cataclysm
profligate
impugn
mirthful
6. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
arbiter
tony
pallid
effete
7. A sudden outburst
undulate
abeyance
gerrymander
spate
8. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
rout
extirpate
ennui
sangfroid
9. Having foresight
supercilious
protean
venerate
prescient
10. Shriveled - withered
fecund
nabob
desiccate
wizened
11. A massive - unstoppable object
juggernaut
concomitant
husbandry
machination
12. Covered with green plants - leafy
somnolent
verdant
portent
paradigm
13. Wildly fanciful - absurd
exigent
histrionic
chimerical
prurient
14. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
apogee
gerrymander
vainglorious
concomitant
15. Talkative
omniscient
garrulous
arbiter
patina
16. Winding - having many curves
rapprochement
draconian
adjure
sinuous
17. A judge - one who decides
bivouac
coterie
arbiter
putrefy
18. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
elliptical
dulcet
brook
neophyte
19. An apparition - phantom
gainsay
bandy
bacchanal
phantasm
20. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
facetious
levee
fusillade
scotch
21. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
capricious
nascent
adumbrate
22. To run counter to - to show something as false
covet
belie
exemplar
apoplexy
23. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
sylvan
cogitate
hidebound
undulate
24. Moving from place to place
conflagration
itinerant
erudite
malapropism
25. To tolerate - to put up with something
brook
martinet
disquiet
levee
26. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
ennui
concomitant
sally
antipodal
27. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
desiccate
puissance
bon vivant
feckless
28. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
habeas corpus
compunction
usury
onerous
29. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malapropism
elan
forswear
evanescent
30. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
noisome
nirvana
prepossess
savant
31. An intimate group of people with a common interest
recidivism
coterie
ensconce
salubrious
32. To muse upon
ruminate
determinism
munificent
chimerical
33. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
accolade
saturnine
reprobate
perquisite
34. Relating to dress or fashion
puissance
sartorial
evanescent
malapropism
35. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
flagellate
apostasy
garrulous
sine qua non
36. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
temporize
sagacious
moribund
37. Stingy
parsimonious
espy
perquisite
chary
38. A beginner - a novice
neophyte
gerrymander
wizened
prowess
39. Sneaky - secret
anathema
prurient
conflagration
surreptitious
40. Lacking color - wan
palliate
pallid
omnivorous
myopia
41. A cave explorer
spelunker
neophyte
gamin
prescient
42. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
vacuous
undulate
aegis
ignominious
43. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
undulate
officious
contentious
habeas corpus
44. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
inchoate
nascent
trice
circumlocution
45. Being in a dying or decaying condition
moribund
ignominious
supercilious
nepotism
46. To wish for with envy
nascent
depredate
nihilism
covet
47. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
behemoth
castigate
largess
dulcet
48. Uncompromising - stubborn
nascent
petulant
lope
intransigent
49. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
recidivism
reticent
obsequious
miasma
50. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
bowdlerize
officious
profligate