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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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. Faithless - untrustworthy
inveterate
perfidious
ethnocentric
vainglorious
2. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
tendentious
depredate
plebeian
rubric
3. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
bilious
plebeian
abscond
doff
4. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
cogitate
plebeian
secrete
desiccate
5. Influence - a forceful blow
ersatz
wizened
clout
sangfroid
6. To behave
comport
scotch
enervate
sine qua non
7. Talkative
parsimonious
mordant
pallid
garrulous
8. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
elan
covet
desiccate
hidebound
9. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
wizened
petulant
sallow
maudlin
10. An illegal act especially by a public official
akimbo
dulcet
recalcitrant
malfeasance
11. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
byzantine
foment
rife
nihilism
12. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
sententious
libation
junta
munificent
13. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
pregnant
bathos
hoary
zephyr
14. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
moribund
savant
gird
abscond
15. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
tony
simper
dulcet
gesticulate
16. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
compunction
homeopathy
arbiter
ennui
17. Hot-tempered - cranky
irascible
titular
insouciant
aggrieve
18. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
nascent
bathos
vicarious
redoubtable
19. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
sangfroid
castigate
juggernaut
simper
20. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
obsequious
apocryphal
muckrake
hidebound
21. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
toothsome
fusillade
repartee
piquant
22. In title only
shibboleth
descry
ignominious
titular
23. Stingy
somnolent
simper
parsimonious
pallid
24. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
coterie
bon vivant
behemoth
besmirch
25. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
sine qua non
dichotomy
onerous
26. Fearful - easily frightened
onerous
cabal
disquiet
timorous
27. An apparition - phantom
discomfit
phantasm
probity
puissance
28. To tolerate - to put up with something
comport
probity
putrefy
brook
29. Displeasure or resentment - shade
recondite
panegyric
umbrage
castigate
30. An inferior substitute
viscosity
privation
repartee
ersatz
31. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
phantasm
accouterments
flagellate
abrogate
32. Heading - title - category
rubric
paradigm
feckless
rout
33. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
accolade
mordant
evanescent
perorate
34. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
fey
cataclysm
officious
irascible
35. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
diaspora
prurient
mirthful
slatternly
36. Squalid - a slovenly woman
slatternly
sagacious
disquiet
besmirch
37. Advancing a point of view - biased
undulate
mirthful
malfeasance
tendentious
38. Turmoil
sturm and drang
encomium
sallow
machination
39. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
scofflaw
macerate
rapprochement
40. Overly sentimental
ambulatory
akimbo
maudlin
titular
41. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
oeuvre
capricious
striated
espy
42. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
itinerant
ribald
redoubtable
plebeian
43. All knowing - infinite awareness
omniscient
decimate
dissipate
nihilism
44. Marked with thin lines or grooves
striated
quiescence
capricious
alchemy
45. Empty - lacking intelligence
vacuous
apostasy
decimate
ameliorate
46. To distress - to mistreat
aggrieve
phlegmatic
zeitgeist
elan
47. Deception or trickery
chicanery
effete
hidebound
privation
48. Hard to understand or grasp
besmirch
abstruse
encomium
sagacious
49. A procession - a group of attendants
hoary
cortege
niggardly
dichotomy
50. A moment - a short period of time
fecund
peregrination
vicarious
trice