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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
levee
espy
bathos
covet
2. To rot
putrefy
recidivism
besmirch
abstruse
3. Animals
elliptical
fauna
fetter
itinerant
4. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
simper
paradigm
machination
omnivorous
5. Deception or trickery
forswear
fey
chicanery
protean
6. Stingy - small in a mean way
pallid
nabob
libation
niggardly
7. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
ignominious
acquit
temporize
discomfit
8. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
hoary
supercilious
vicarious
perquisite
9. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
nabob
somnolent
circumlocution
onerous
10. Displeasure or resentment - shade
bumptious
apogee
inveterate
umbrage
11. An excellent model - a typical example
spelunker
debacle
dichotomy
exemplar
12. Marked with thin lines or grooves
assignation
histrionic
striated
rapprochement
13. Coming into existence - being born
gerrymander
alchemy
nascent
quiescence
14. To leave quickly and secretively
coterie
abscond
bivouac
sinuous
15. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
synergy
pluralism
arbiter
chicanery
16. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
zephyr
disquiet
apostasy
17. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
disquiet
onerous
piquant
vicarious
18. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
niggardly
redoubtable
sallow
wont
19. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
wastrel
titular
palliate
impecunious
20. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
supercilious
patina
bacchanal
bilious
21. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
sui generis
bacchanal
onerous
philistine
22. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
privation
patois
circumlocution
muckrake
23. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
fey
pregnant
perorate
sangfroid
24. An expedition - wandering
peregrination
oscillate
capricious
vacuous
25. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
profligate
interregnum
inveterate
truculent
26. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
panegyric
diaspora
assiduous
prevaricate
27. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
repartee
inchoate
oeuvre
titular
28. Faithless - untrustworthy
plebeian
endemic
perfidious
sturm and drang
29. A file of documents - letters and records
depredate
protean
conflagration
dossier
30. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
opprobrious
repartee
penury
dissipate
31. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
capricious
opus
abrogate
palliate
32. Sweetly flowing
perfidious
mellifluous
vicarious
supercilious
33. Nearness in place or time - kinship
impecunious
descry
propinquity
feral
34. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
inveterate
reprobate
bivouac
akimbo
35. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
ancillary
diaspora
foment
36. Forest-like - wooded
mordant
sylvan
dossier
stalwart
37. Environment - surroundings
besmirch
fetter
milieu
omniscient
38. Careful - cautious - wary
bathos
husbandry
chary
interregnum
39. Sneaky - secret
surreptitious
abeyance
sinuous
comport
40. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
ascetic
striated
apostasy
macerate
41. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
opus
feckless
punctilious
acquit
42. Lacking color - wan
desiccate
interregnum
pallid
mercurial
43. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
bowdlerize
juggernaut
quiescence
redoubtable
44. Stubborn
gestalt
umbrage
obdurate
officious
45. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
endemic
myopia
implacable
cataclysm
46. Division into two often contradictory parts
pallid
concomitant
dichotomy
prescient
47. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
malfeasance
apogee
sangfroid
feckless
48. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
stalwart
prowess
vitriolic
repartee
49. Oval - obscure in expression
sine qua non
foment
bumptious
elliptical
50. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
bowdlerize
akimbo
cogitate
debacle