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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. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
vicarious
apostasy
perorate
zaftig
2. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
histrionic
zeitgeist
vitriolic
dossier
3. To kill or destroy a large part of
syllogism
oeuvre
vicarious
decimate
4. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
gird
quiescence
ethnocentric
penury
5. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
portent
bowdlerize
ribald
gird
6. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
peregrination
plebeian
sui generis
omnivorous
7. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
simper
sylvan
fauna
8. Stingy - small in a mean way
largess
alacrity
niggardly
rubric
9. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
fusillade
petulant
enervate
repartee
10. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
feckless
perspicacious
privation
vitriolic
11. To impede - restrain - hamper
debacle
fetter
paradigm
macerate
12. To make uneasy
rarefied
profligate
disquiet
behemoth
13. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
tony
feckless
macerate
prurient
14. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
rubric
milieu
determinism
debacle
15. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
wizened
espy
clout
ensconce
16. Slander - deliberate false statements
calumny
conflagration
truculent
obdurate
17. In title only
officious
philistine
truculent
titular
18. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
syllogism
circumlocution
myopia
tony
19. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
propinquity
scofflaw
bilious
inveterate
20. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
panegyric
gesticulate
nabob
facetious
21. The act of repeating an offense
apoplexy
apocryphal
ameliorate
recidivism
22. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
patois
reprobate
patina
salubrious
23. Facade - coating - outward appearance
veneer
spelunker
lope
decimate
24. Subsidiary - subordinate
doggerel
ancillary
histrionic
scotch
25. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
zaftig
irascible
sally
privation
26. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
abstinence
decimate
intransigent
viscosity
27. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
somnolent
usury
zaftig
hidebound
28. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
forswear
salubrious
garrulous
sallow
29. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
hidebound
doff
slatternly
decimate
30. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
raffish
decimate
ascetic
tony
31. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
gestalt
recalcitrant
ersatz
irascible
32. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
interregnum
reticent
fauna
sententious
33. Winding - having many curves
protean
sinuous
ancillary
interregnum
34. Something that is an essential condition of
sine qua non
fey
levee
juggernaut
35. To enroll - most particularly in college
accouterments
matriculate
apostasy
temporize
36. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
descry
cachet
scofflaw
timorous
37. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
bowdlerize
abrogate
decimate
patina
38. A creative work - musical composition
extirpate
opus
rife
apogee
39. Wise - shrewd
arbiter
oeuvre
sagacious
feckless
40. To honor - to worship - to respect
bacchanal
vicarious
venerate
erudite
41. Uncompromising - stubborn
intransigent
tony
apogee
levee
42. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
feckless
penultimate
habeas corpus
profligate
43. Native - belonging to a specific region
endemic
toothsome
irascible
desiccate
44. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
saturnine
bivouac
feral
piquant
45. Moving from place to place
itinerant
gestalt
parsimonious
machination
46. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
rout
abstruse
doff
47. Custom - habit
wont
ennui
libidinous
officious
48. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
veneer
vagary
officious
sycophant
49. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
feral
prepossess
besmirch
lassitude
50. Fawning - subservient - servile
effete
salubrious
panegyric
obsequious