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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. Covered with green plants - leafy
intransigent
putrefy
verdant
spate
2. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
dossier
ossify
descry
deleterious
3. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
apoplexy
evanescent
byzantine
myopia
4. Coming into existence - being born
adjure
mercurial
martinet
nascent
5. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
pluralism
parsimonious
gamin
compunction
6. To confuse - deceive
discomfit
leitmotif
ignominious
machination
7. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
forswear
gerrymander
zephyr
8. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
bathos
mellifluous
vainglorious
9. Overly sentimental
scofflaw
maudlin
calumny
officious
10. Award or honor - high praise
dissipate
mercurial
accolade
nepotism
11. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
recondite
encomium
draconian
phantasm
12. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
diaspora
perorate
circumlocution
interregnum
13. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
implacable
cataclysm
verdant
mercurial
14. Custom - habit
bivouac
wont
accouterments
omniscient
15. Having foresight
oscillate
prescient
leitmotif
itinerant
16. Relating to dress or fashion
vacuous
ambulatory
sartorial
ascetic
17. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
byzantine
abscond
rife
peregrination
18. A dominant or recurring theme
leitmotif
milieu
mirthful
truculent
19. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
aggrieve
belie
prowess
martinet
20. Fawning - subservient - servile
enervate
abstinence
obsequious
provenance
21. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
striated
histrionic
omnivorous
perfunctory
22. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
gestalt
sinuous
besmirch
imbroglio
23. Occurring during the day - happens every day
timorous
decimate
simper
diurnal
24. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
husbandry
belie
omnivorous
depredate
25. Deception or trickery
sine qua non
chicanery
hoary
prescient
26. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
dulcet
sturm and drang
shibboleth
anathema
27. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
cataclysm
prevaricate
feral
compunction
28. Something that is an essential condition of
puissance
evanescent
sine qua non
accolade
29. Evil - unjust
matriculate
rarefied
interregnum
iniquitous
30. Hostile - aggressive - savage
fetter
exigent
extirpate
truculent
31. A eulogy or expression of high praise
exemplar
salubrious
encomium
philistine
32. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
impervious
chary
rout
savant
33. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
aggrieve
patina
recalcitrant
palliate
34. An apparition - phantom
sycophant
reprobate
plebeian
phantasm
35. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
abstruse
profligate
protean
elliptical
36. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
ribald
martinet
zeitgeist
macerate
37. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
concomitant
viscosity
prepossess
malfeasance
38. Hard to understand or grasp
patois
abstruse
chimerical
extirpate
39. Advancing a point of view - biased
oscillate
ethnocentric
ascetic
tendentious
40. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
ignominious
reticent
nabob
shibboleth
41. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
cachet
largess
flagellate
adjure
42. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
mordant
petulant
ameliorate
arbiter
43. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
nabob
tony
rout
salubrious
44. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
forswear
quiescence
propinquity
ascetic
45. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
ossify
adjure
privation
leitmotif
46. Accompanying - attending - going along with
nepotism
depredate
ancillary
concomitant
47. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
ribald
fey
elan
martinet
48. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
itinerant
parsimonious
circumlocution
libation
49. Power - strength
sui generis
puissance
dulcet
toothsome
50. A procession - a group of attendants
sententious
malapropism
impervious
cortege