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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. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
titular
veracious
wont
2. Pungent - charmingly provocative
rife
arbiter
tendentious
piquant
3. Generous
munificent
apocryphal
venerate
hidebound
4. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
panacea
bumptious
gamin
prescient
5. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
bivouac
ascetic
apocryphal
castigate
6. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
bilious
akimbo
prowess
anomie
7. To dry out
saturnine
profligate
prescient
desiccate
8. To smile foolishly
dissipate
simper
assignation
levee
9. Custom - habit
feral
trice
wont
puissance
10. A model or example
paradigm
aggrieve
castigate
saturnine
11. Heading - title - category
prescient
saturnine
rubric
omniscient
12. Award or honor - high praise
protean
accolade
nirvana
apocryphal
13. The mood or spirit of the times
abstruse
opprobrious
zeitgeist
ribald
14. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
tony
savant
tendentious
protean
15. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
fusillade
nepotism
anathema
sinuous
16. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
salubrious
malfeasance
accouterments
17. Honesty - uprightness
probity
propinquity
sallow
temporize
18. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
abrogate
sylvan
bon vivant
supercilious
19. Being in a dying or decaying condition
ambulatory
moribund
obdurate
obsequious
20. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
savant
ascetic
panacea
sallow
21. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
paradigm
scofflaw
muckrake
22. A file of documents - letters and records
tony
temerity
dossier
puissance
23. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
descry
niggardly
gerrymander
24. A large - disastrous fire
conflagration
trice
perorate
wizened
25. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
flagellate
anathema
stalwart
facetious
26. To stir up - to incite
gird
habeas corpus
foment
sartorial
27. Harmful
deleterious
arbiter
apostasy
omnivorous
28. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
rarefied
libation
wastrel
29. Hot-tempered - cranky
veneer
irascible
sagacious
vagary
30. 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
machination
dichotomy
diaspora
parsimonious
31. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
plebeian
rubric
temerity
nepotism
32. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
akimbo
rout
interregnum
nonplus
33. A temporary encampment
philistine
bivouac
forswear
lassitude
34. Lacking color - wan
recidivism
salubrious
pallid
obsequious
35. A system of natural healing
obsequious
homeopathy
sartorial
saturnine
36. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
nonplus
machination
milieu
profligate
37. Hard to understand or grasp
abstruse
pluralism
viscosity
verdant
38. A massive - unstoppable object
gerrymander
intransigent
juggernaut
savant
39. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
itinerant
syllogism
stalwart
placebo
40. Disgraceful and dishonorable
ignominious
perorate
ennui
onerous
41. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
elan
debacle
circumlocution
machination
42. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
sally
ambulatory
abstinence
somnolent
43. Deception or trickery
omniscient
putrefy
insouciant
chicanery
44. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
cortege
nonplus
mellifluous
evanescent
45. A re-establishment of good relations
junta
raffish
rapprochement
abscond
46. Something that is an essential condition of
secrete
spelunker
onus
sine qua non
47. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
dilettante
bathos
compunction
prevaricate
48. Animals
fauna
zephyr
antipodal
arbiter
49. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
ambulatory
belie
panegyric
libation
50. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
anathema
fetter
opus
depredate