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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
martinet
bacchanal
compunction
apoplexy
2. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
protean
vagary
deleterious
abrogate
3. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
puissance
patina
cachet
onerous
4. In title only
prurient
officious
cavil
titular
5. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
savant
brook
alacrity
extirpate
6. To deny - to speak or act against
machination
surreptitious
belie
gainsay
7. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
quiescence
savant
miasma
perspicacious
8. Coming into existence - being born
nascent
perquisite
viscosity
cachet
9. A dominant or recurring theme
leitmotif
determinism
cachet
descry
10. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
encomium
propinquity
obsequious
feckless
11. Merry - gleeful
scofflaw
espy
clout
mirthful
12. To invest with authority - to brace
probity
neophyte
diurnal
gird
13. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
sine qua non
sycophant
ossify
gestalt
14. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malapropism
pallid
apostasy
sturm and drang
15. Fearful - easily frightened
deleterious
wastrel
surreptitious
timorous
16. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
perquisite
feckless
rife
gainsay
17. To give off - to conceal
prowess
akimbo
doff
secrete
18. To stir up - to incite
miasma
reprobate
foment
obdurate
19. To tolerate - to put up with something
foment
brook
discomfit
truculent
20. The mood or spirit of the times
impugn
gamin
abscond
zeitgeist
21. Extreme poverty
enervate
veracious
penury
depredate
22. Having foresight
obdurate
aegis
prescient
juggernaut
23. Empty - lacking intelligence
patois
sallow
vacuous
halitosis
24. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
omnivorous
cogitate
bandy
25. Animals
chimerical
punctilious
contentious
fauna
26. Payment - recompense
inveterate
forswear
spate
remuneration
27. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
diurnal
punctilious
lassitude
elan
28. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
veracious
reprobate
pregnant
noisome
29. To dry out
desiccate
veneer
secrete
prowess
30. Advancing a point of view - biased
encomium
interregnum
leitmotif
tendentious
31. A model or example
rout
syllogism
depredate
paradigm
32. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
ruminate
conflagration
adjure
33. Custom - habit
wont
umbrage
matriculate
accouterments
34. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
pregnant
feckless
propinquity
martinet
35. A moment - a short period of time
forswear
erudite
perfidious
trice
36. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
ascetic
nihilism
abeyance
37. Fawning - subservient - servile
obsequious
neophyte
sine qua non
truculent
38. To leave quickly and secretively
calumny
abscond
accouterments
sallow
39. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
probity
alacrity
flagellate
opprobrious
40. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
temporize
calumny
inchoate
wastrel
41. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
profligate
fetter
sagacious
42. Stingy
usury
viscosity
parsimonious
besmirch
43. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
castigate
besmirch
maudlin
chimerical
44. A sudden outburst
deleterious
vacuous
spate
sylvan
45. Covered with green plants - leafy
phlegmatic
officious
verdant
fecund
46. Common - vulgar - low class
acquit
endemic
plebeian
puissance
47. A procession - a group of attendants
antipodal
cortege
spate
cavil
48. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
abscond
patina
rarefied
bandy
49. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
cataclysm
puissance
nonplus
dissipate
50. An intimate group of people with a common interest
reticent
coterie
byzantine
tony
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