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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 mood or spirit of the times
verdant
oeuvre
savant
zeitgeist
2. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
simper
nirvana
cogitate
pregnant
3. Faithless - untrustworthy
perspicacious
neophyte
putrefy
perfidious
4. Common - vulgar - low class
savant
sine qua non
parsimonious
plebeian
5. A sudden outburst
anathema
adumbrate
spate
flagellate
6. A remedy that cures everything
diaspora
malapropism
mendacious
panacea
7. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
anomie
sally
reticent
bivouac
8. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
cabal
perquisite
habeas corpus
determinism
9. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
diurnal
zephyr
junta
intransigent
10. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
lope
prowess
depredate
erudite
11. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
mordant
synergy
stalwart
sallow
12. To impede - restrain - hamper
anomie
irascible
fetter
privation
13. Merry - gleeful
sententious
mirthful
irascible
officious
14. To make better - to ease or improve
bacchanal
endemic
ameliorate
debacle
15. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
besmirch
leitmotif
secrete
machination
16. A creative work - musical composition
scotch
opus
dissipate
impugn
17. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
hoary
vagary
petulant
gird
18. Dishonest - deceitful
zephyr
halitosis
mendacious
ignominious
19. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
niggardly
privation
prescient
zeitgeist
20. An illegal act especially by a public official
alacrity
remuneration
malfeasance
exigent
21. To behave
ambulatory
comport
ignominious
abstruse
22. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
malapropism
abstruse
sagacious
abstinence
23. Fawning - subservient - servile
gestalt
salubrious
milieu
obsequious
24. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
recidivism
espy
reticent
cogitate
25. Custom - habit
putrefy
dissipate
ancillary
wont
26. Deception or trickery
prowess
timorous
vacuous
chicanery
27. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
encomium
behemoth
largess
acquit
28. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
hidebound
alchemy
patina
dissipate
29. Being in a dying or decaying condition
intransigent
ambulatory
malfeasance
moribund
30. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
capricious
husbandry
fecund
anomie
31. To distress - to mistreat
sally
alchemy
aggrieve
juggernaut
32. A eulogy or expression of high praise
synergy
oeuvre
brook
encomium
33. Harmful
stalwart
scotch
deleterious
doggerel
34. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
rarefied
perquisite
rapprochement
veracious
35. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
myopia
accolade
probity
synergy
36. Severe - exceedingly harsh
compunction
chicanery
capricious
draconian
37. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
rife
sententious
piquant
peregrination
38. Talkative
cataclysm
garrulous
draconian
nepotism
39. Sneaky - secret
fey
vainglorious
zaftig
surreptitious
40. Heading - title - category
hidebound
rubric
recondite
surreptitious
41. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
ruminate
recidivism
onerous
savant
42. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
gestalt
officious
hidebound
flagellate
43. Moving from place to place
itinerant
philistine
macerate
patina
44. Vulgar or indecent language
veracious
ribald
noisome
mirthful
45. Coming into existence - being born
nascent
nabob
libidinous
patina
46. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
alchemy
trice
neophyte
bacchanal
47. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
tendentious
vagary
nepotism
onerous
48. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
doff
acquit
conflagration
compunction
49. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
vacuous
determinism
omnivorous
perorate
50. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
titular
pluralism
perspicacious