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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
feral
malfeasance
accolade
munificent
2. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
cachet
disquiet
malapropism
3. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
rife
junta
wizened
omniscient
4. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
leitmotif
privation
gamin
facetious
5. Relating to dress or fashion
vagary
sartorial
ethnocentric
ignominious
6. The mood or spirit of the times
dilettante
simper
zeitgeist
garrulous
7. One who adheres strictly to rules
martinet
concomitant
vagary
accouterments
8. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
imbroglio
miasma
histrionic
gainsay
9. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
veracious
portent
patina
sagacious
10. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
erudite
venerate
secrete
muckrake
11. 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
sylvan
wastrel
mordant
diaspora
12. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
veneer
striated
petulant
13. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
extirpate
patina
habeas corpus
officious
14. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
recalcitrant
doggerel
sententious
palliate
15. All knowing - infinite awareness
chicanery
omniscient
rife
habeas corpus
16. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
trice
ossify
halitosis
perorate
17. An excellent model - a typical example
bivouac
homeopathy
exemplar
recondite
18. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
ameliorate
prowess
tendentious
depredate
19. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
implacable
nihilism
nascent
spelunker
20. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
debacle
effete
prurient
sagacious
21. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
saturnine
cataclysm
exemplar
recondite
22. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
chimerical
secrete
covet
apogee
23. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
spelunker
gesticulate
nepotism
irascible
24. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
philistine
stalwart
fey
synergy
25. A disaster or violent breakdown
gamin
verdant
debacle
abstruse
26. Drowsy - sleepy
encomium
brook
somnolent
officious
27. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
gamin
sui generis
itinerant
piquant
28. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
chicanery
prowess
obsequious
29. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
elliptical
obdurate
bowdlerize
zeitgeist
30. Whim - an unpredictable action
impecunious
neophyte
ruminate
vagary
31. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
vicarious
prepossess
leitmotif
perquisite
32. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
circumlocution
discomfit
obsequious
shibboleth
33. To make uneasy
facetious
disquiet
sagacious
foment
34. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
probity
perfidious
abrogate
ribald
35. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
striated
apogee
espy
imbroglio
36. Vulgar or indecent language
patois
adumbrate
draconian
ribald
37. Favorable to health
salubrious
evanescent
ribald
tendentious
38. To give off - to conceal
dissipate
interregnum
secrete
vagary
39. Harmful
deleterious
sine qua non
machination
abstruse
40. Pungent - charmingly provocative
calumny
munificent
philistine
piquant
41. Truthful - honest
veracious
rarefied
besmirch
ennui
42. Empty - lacking intelligence
enervate
vacuous
fey
calumny
43. To deny - to speak or act against
cavil
gainsay
gestalt
homeopathy
44. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
perfidious
abstinence
belie
bandy
45. A drunken reveler or orgy
usury
cavil
bacchanal
protean
46. Bad breath
diurnal
placebo
halitosis
cataclysm
47. To tolerate - to put up with something
enervate
brook
secrete
vainglorious
48. Fawning - subservient - servile
recidivism
tony
redoubtable
obsequious
49. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
rarefied
fusillade
puissance
tony
50. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
macerate
clout
ethnocentric