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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. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
shibboleth
gesticulate
portent
apogee
2. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
comport
cabal
mercurial
nirvana
3. Hardworking - busy - diligent
fauna
assiduous
rapprochement
disquiet
4. To invest with authority - to brace
nepotism
besmirch
gird
truculent
5. A fake medication
repartee
somnolent
placebo
raffish
6. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
umbrage
titular
intransigent
fey
7. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
protean
salubrious
apogee
ancillary
8. Forest-like - wooded
libidinous
sylvan
penury
dissipate
9. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
sallow
sinuous
espy
forswear
10. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
reprobate
alacrity
usury
vitriolic
11. A drunken reveler or orgy
striated
niggardly
bacchanal
descry
12. All knowing - infinite awareness
acquit
compunction
machination
omniscient
13. One who adheres strictly to rules
sallow
noisome
putrefy
martinet
14. Boastful - pompous
prurient
truculent
vainglorious
bathos
15. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
besmirch
husbandry
compunction
recidivism
16. Honesty - uprightness
perspicacious
probity
intransigent
apocryphal
17. Protection - patronage
cachet
aegis
deleterious
milieu
18. Nearness in place or time - kinship
conflagration
reticent
propinquity
raffish
19. Subsidiary - subordinate
mordant
opprobrious
ancillary
prepossess
20. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
hidebound
besmirch
wont
facetious
21. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
hoary
bilious
onus
penury
22. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
panacea
vainglorious
zeitgeist
23. To leave quickly and secretively
opus
vacuous
abscond
ambulatory
24. To smile foolishly
bandy
simper
venerate
redoubtable
25. Severe - exceedingly harsh
gird
puissance
moribund
draconian
26. Vulgar or indecent language
omnivorous
ribald
zaftig
hoary
27. Something that is an essential condition of
bilious
sine qua non
reticent
conflagration
28. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
redoubtable
elan
castigate
vitriolic
29. Full-figured - plump
veracious
matriculate
zaftig
decimate
30. Disgraceful and dishonorable
ignominious
mellifluous
verdant
timorous
31. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
oscillate
adumbrate
dossier
depredate
32. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
officious
insouciant
prowess
bowdlerize
33. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
arbiter
nirvana
histrionic
gird
34. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
forswear
noisome
recondite
acquit
35. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
shibboleth
cogitate
phlegmatic
patina
36. To impede - restrain - hamper
quiescence
fetter
milieu
paradigm
37. Wildly fanciful - absurd
piquant
contentious
chimerical
gerrymander
38. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
apocryphal
plebeian
mellifluous
penury
39. To gesture - especially when speaking
anathema
abscond
panegyric
gesticulate
40. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
cachet
fetter
penultimate
byzantine
41. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
toothsome
rout
abrogate
descry
42. Animals
zeitgeist
repartee
veracious
fauna
43. Occurring during the day - happens every day
munificent
diurnal
disquiet
dilettante
44. To confuse - deceive
adumbrate
discomfit
reticent
ambulatory
45. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
diurnal
foment
impervious
pallid
46. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
impecunious
encomium
vicarious
bilious
47. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
bumptious
mordant
patois
wastrel
48. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
tony
sententious
desiccate
synergy
49. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
largess
evanescent
clout
ethnocentric
50. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
recidivism
prescient
vagary
phlegmatic