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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. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
aegis
discomfit
feral
libidinous
2. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
coterie
husbandry
mordant
prowess
3. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
reticent
sinuous
bon vivant
piquant
4. The act of repeating an offense
mordant
recidivism
ignominious
contentious
5. Sweetly flowing
veneer
impecunious
mellifluous
juggernaut
6. A judge - one who decides
husbandry
arbiter
placebo
wastrel
7. Without money - penniless
impecunious
feckless
striated
abstruse
8. Bad breath
doggerel
fusillade
halitosis
opus
9. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
recalcitrant
veneer
ennui
besmirch
10. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
anathema
rout
machination
usury
11. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
libation
vicarious
repartee
propinquity
12. Wildly fanciful - absurd
chimerical
enervate
impervious
apogee
13. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
evanescent
sangfroid
akimbo
nihilism
14. Boastful - pompous
vainglorious
recalcitrant
vacuous
diurnal
15. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
adumbrate
abrogate
somnolent
akimbo
16. To deviate from the truth
simper
opus
adumbrate
prevaricate
17. Division into two often contradictory parts
surreptitious
fusillade
dichotomy
effete
18. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
libation
abrogate
apogee
perfidious
19. To tolerate - to put up with something
largess
brook
profligate
implacable
20. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
rarefied
sturm and drang
belie
tony
21. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
recondite
nonplus
bandy
comport
22. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
paradigm
temporize
gird
cogitate
23. Being in a dying or decaying condition
moribund
dossier
ossify
leitmotif
24. Talkative
venerate
ascetic
garrulous
viscosity
25. The mood or spirit of the times
truculent
niggardly
zeitgeist
coterie
26. Evil - unjust
iniquitous
pregnant
nepotism
panegyric
27. Award or honor - high praise
adumbrate
accolade
cachet
perorate
28. Moving from place to place
martinet
machination
itinerant
verdant
29. To attack the integrity of something
mirthful
quiescence
bacchanal
impugn
30. Having foresight
prescient
habeas corpus
levee
debacle
31. Forest-like - wooded
depredate
sylvan
oeuvre
sartorial
32. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
perspicacious
bon vivant
opprobrious
plebeian
33. To behave
garrulous
apoplexy
tony
comport
34. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
gestalt
noisome
paradigm
malapropism
35. Harmful
sartorial
deleterious
machination
aggrieve
36. A cave explorer
chary
remuneration
coterie
spelunker
37. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
pregnant
perfunctory
pallid
perspicacious
38. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
vainglorious
prepossess
capricious
lope
39. Shriveled - withered
wizened
profligate
somnolent
saturnine
40. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
milieu
remuneration
placebo
gerrymander
41. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
wont
impervious
umbrage
ennui
42. To gesture - especially when speaking
halitosis
levee
adumbrate
gesticulate
43. To dry out
desiccate
recidivism
cogitate
privation
44. Fertile - productive - fruitful
perfidious
venerate
fecund
sturm and drang
45. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
gainsay
sally
panacea
ignominious
46. A temporary encampment
nonplus
bivouac
effete
myopia
47. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
bathos
diaspora
halitosis
elan
48. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
temerity
perfunctory
extirpate
feral
49. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
nihilism
apoplexy
portent
abrogate
50. To distress - to mistreat
aggrieve
abscond
pregnant
perquisite