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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. Moving from place to place
ethnocentric
fauna
itinerant
iniquitous
2. Truthful - honest
palliate
veracious
malfeasance
juggernaut
3. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
conflagration
impervious
akimbo
discomfit
4. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
cogitate
matriculate
veneer
temporize
5. Deception or trickery
concomitant
verdant
chicanery
punctilious
6. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malapropism
malfeasance
libidinous
bathos
7. To behave
impervious
implacable
comport
provenance
8. A system of natural healing
lassitude
homeopathy
toothsome
conflagration
9. Favorable to health
wizened
opus
debacle
salubrious
10. Marked with thin lines or grooves
bandy
recondite
striated
cabal
11. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
opus
vainglorious
fetter
mordant
12. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
obsequious
sylvan
aegis
abrogate
13. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
antipodal
libation
coterie
mellifluous
14. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
castigate
parsimonious
ameliorate
nascent
15. Common - vulgar - low class
saturnine
fusillade
cabal
plebeian
16. Nearness in place or time - kinship
byzantine
wastrel
petulant
propinquity
17. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
fusillade
doggerel
adumbrate
machination
18. The mood or spirit of the times
somnolent
striated
perfidious
zeitgeist
19. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
feckless
macerate
compunction
abstinence
20. Animals
spate
plebeian
intransigent
fauna
21. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
usury
opprobrious
phlegmatic
22. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
levee
diaspora
draconian
descry
23. Displeasure or resentment - shade
venerate
dossier
bowdlerize
umbrage
24. A creative work - musical composition
opus
myopia
antipodal
irascible
25. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
patois
macerate
nirvana
remuneration
26. Vulgar or indecent language
garrulous
muckrake
ribald
recalcitrant
27. Advancing a point of view - biased
machination
tendentious
profligate
abscond
28. To make uneasy
opus
sally
disquiet
nascent
29. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
exigent
punctilious
miasma
secrete
30. Protection - patronage
nonplus
exigent
aegis
panegyric
31. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
dossier
munificent
bandy
insouciant
32. One who is continually breaking the law
verdant
intransigent
scofflaw
cortege
33. Empty - lacking intelligence
sententious
vacuous
fey
sinuous
34. Hard to understand or grasp
impugn
abstruse
aegis
gerrymander
35. Power - strength
compunction
puissance
spelunker
contentious
36. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
officious
cabal
cataclysm
chary
37. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
shibboleth
nabob
gestalt
dulcet
38. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
imbroglio
truculent
rife
accouterments
39. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
apogee
redoubtable
mendacious
obdurate
40. A procession - a group of attendants
cortege
brook
nonplus
doff
41. A beginner - a novice
nascent
impervious
abstinence
neophyte
42. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
anomie
alchemy
portent
sturm and drang
43. Winding - having many curves
elliptical
assiduous
sinuous
mercurial
44. Sneaky - secret
gerrymander
bivouac
surreptitious
ascetic
45. Disgraceful and dishonorable
ethnocentric
ancillary
ignominious
nonplus
46. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
recondite
itinerant
cortege
pluralism
47. Something that is an essential condition of
synergy
decimate
sinuous
sine qua non
48. To rot
shibboleth
muckrake
rapprochement
putrefy
49. Next to last
penultimate
rarefied
umbrage
tendentious
50. An intimate group of people with a common interest
palliate
recondite
mellifluous
coterie