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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To attack the integrity of something
gestalt
truculent
prepossess
impugn
2. A beginner - a novice
cabal
neophyte
castigate
officious
3. A temporary suspension of activity
abeyance
sagacious
dichotomy
abstinence
4. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
ascetic
mordant
acquit
effete
5. Stingy - small in a mean way
bumptious
akimbo
depredate
niggardly
6. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
sui generis
libidinous
gamin
endemic
7. Accompanying - attending - going along with
ribald
supercilious
spate
concomitant
8. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
opprobrious
prurient
perorate
elliptical
9. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
flagellate
parsimonious
abeyance
compunction
10. A massive - unstoppable object
cogitate
juggernaut
salubrious
slatternly
11. Fawning - subservient - servile
obsequious
mirthful
feckless
abscond
12. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
apoplexy
endemic
ensconce
reprobate
13. To expose political misconduct
wizened
pregnant
muckrake
abeyance
14. To bewilder - to puzzle
disquiet
byzantine
nonplus
feckless
15. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
omniscient
panegyric
vitriolic
provenance
16. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
accolade
lassitude
ennui
17. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
fecund
myopia
punctilious
bowdlerize
18. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
vainglorious
maudlin
dilettante
penultimate
19. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
shibboleth
byzantine
evanescent
ascetic
20. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
leitmotif
espy
iniquitous
bon vivant
21. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
erudite
macerate
interregnum
hoary
22. Whim - an unpredictable action
vagary
saturnine
nascent
fauna
23. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
draconian
onerous
inchoate
shibboleth
24. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
quiescence
aegis
simper
adjure
25. Animals
rife
nascent
fauna
munificent
26. Talkative
apogee
simper
nepotism
garrulous
27. Displeasure or resentment - shade
gird
umbrage
halitosis
perquisite
28. To confuse - deceive
petulant
malapropism
discomfit
paradigm
29. To deny - to speak or act against
undulate
prevaricate
gainsay
remuneration
30. Generous
bacchanal
rarefied
ignominious
munificent
31. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
apostasy
striated
ancillary
raffish
32. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
cachet
palliate
bowdlerize
acquit
33. To tolerate - to put up with something
matriculate
deleterious
onerous
brook
34. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
veneer
coterie
bowdlerize
bandy
35. A disaster or violent breakdown
akimbo
chicanery
obsequious
debacle
36. Extreme poverty
sallow
bilious
perfunctory
penury
37. A fake medication
placebo
obsequious
deleterious
apostasy
38. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
covet
apocryphal
dissipate
itinerant
39. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
slatternly
determinism
ethnocentric
pregnant
40. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
apostasy
malapropism
temporize
akimbo
41. Squalid - a slovenly woman
vagary
gestalt
slatternly
perquisite
42. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
effete
verdant
repartee
insouciant
43. Hardworking - busy - diligent
accouterments
assiduous
timorous
gerrymander
44. To rot
moribund
putrefy
libidinous
impugn
45. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
hidebound
cachet
comport
disquiet
46. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
anomie
bowdlerize
apoplexy
stalwart
47. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
feral
diurnal
sally
48. A gentle breeze
zephyr
levee
brook
remuneration
49. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
apoplexy
striated
milieu
levee
50. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
oeuvre
nepotism
provenance
nabob
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