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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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1. A moment - a short period of time
deleterious
trice
anathema
syllogism
2. A dominant or recurring theme
akimbo
leitmotif
sinuous
determinism
3. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
vagary
dilettante
oeuvre
accouterments
4. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
cabal
vitriolic
elan
prevaricate
5. Lending money at a high interest rate
vacuous
usury
vagary
vainglorious
6. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
cortege
chimerical
obsequious
accouterments
7. A system of natural healing
homeopathy
panegyric
forswear
exigent
8. A temporary encampment
coterie
perfidious
nabob
bivouac
9. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
punctilious
imbroglio
viscosity
ossify
10. Facade - coating - outward appearance
veneer
covet
abstruse
patois
11. Environment - surroundings
libation
milieu
habeas corpus
obdurate
12. To put an end to
scotch
omniscient
gainsay
ameliorate
13. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
cogitate
ascetic
tony
redoubtable
14. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
levee
saturnine
belie
penury
15. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
sally
oeuvre
chary
flagellate
16. Stingy
antipodal
undulate
circumlocution
parsimonious
17. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
vagary
perfunctory
apogee
opprobrious
18. Pungent - charmingly provocative
fusillade
penultimate
profligate
piquant
19. Stubborn
coterie
obdurate
cabal
comport
20. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
gerrymander
adjure
doggerel
quiescence
21. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
ascetic
exigent
tony
foment
22. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
elliptical
simper
spate
palliate
23. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
ensconce
prescient
apocryphal
tony
24. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
junta
alacrity
covet
zephyr
25. Award or honor - high praise
accolade
patina
sallow
simper
26. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
verdant
inveterate
behemoth
libation
27. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
ersatz
gerrymander
venerate
cavil
28. A judge - one who decides
arbiter
macerate
inchoate
punctilious
29. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
contentious
punctilious
nepotism
byzantine
30. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
sententious
husbandry
mendacious
ruminate
31. To swing back and forth
zeitgeist
syllogism
oscillate
zephyr
32. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
implacable
bathos
calumny
33. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
moribund
acquit
dulcet
capricious
34. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
mellifluous
oeuvre
noisome
35. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
panegyric
doggerel
verdant
usury
36. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
encomium
gesticulate
habeas corpus
prowess
37. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
prepossess
nepotism
sartorial
viscosity
38. A re-establishment of good relations
shibboleth
halitosis
opprobrious
rapprochement
39. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
muckrake
viscosity
sallow
sagacious
40. Overly sentimental
cortege
maudlin
mendacious
fey
41. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
irascible
ascetic
nirvana
diaspora
42. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
hidebound
stalwart
dissipate
scotch
43. Relating to dress or fashion
profligate
doff
moribund
sartorial
44. One who is continually breaking the law
dulcet
scofflaw
sturm and drang
compunction
45. Hard to understand or grasp
abstruse
abscond
castigate
encomium
46. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
habeas corpus
mercurial
apostasy
decimate
47. Stingy - small in a mean way
niggardly
accolade
zeitgeist
adumbrate
48. An inferior substitute
ersatz
recidivism
cortege
ribald
49. To impede - restrain - hamper
depredate
fetter
vitriolic
perfunctory
50. Boastful - pompous
facetious
tendentious
officious
vainglorious
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