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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.
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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. Custom - habit
comport
omnivorous
wont
perfunctory
2. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
encomium
mordant
accouterments
supercilious
3. Overly sentimental
maudlin
opus
iniquitous
cabal
4. Stingy - small in a mean way
acquit
panacea
niggardly
doggerel
5. To bewilder - to puzzle
sagacious
nonplus
placebo
besmirch
6. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
diurnal
viscosity
aegis
pregnant
7. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
vitriolic
disquiet
tony
arbiter
8. One who adheres strictly to rules
martinet
noisome
covet
simper
9. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
cortege
supercilious
gainsay
bandy
10. Empty - lacking intelligence
redoubtable
provenance
vacuous
dissipate
11. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
supercilious
leitmotif
aggrieve
obsequious
12. Lacking color - wan
pallid
draconian
martinet
phantasm
13. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
toothsome
noisome
privation
perquisite
14. Urgent - demands prompt action
philistine
exigent
propinquity
ruminate
15. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
assignation
ribald
husbandry
apoplexy
16. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
fecund
reticent
juggernaut
adumbrate
17. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
striated
acquit
forswear
levee
18. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
compunction
martinet
obsequious
niggardly
19. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
ignominious
concomitant
homeopathy
20. A cave explorer
nirvana
cataclysm
spelunker
vagary
21. Severe - exceedingly harsh
putrefy
encomium
draconian
foment
22. Disgraceful and dishonorable
punctilious
wastrel
conflagration
ignominious
23. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
spelunker
opprobrious
insouciant
reticent
24. All knowing - infinite awareness
omniscient
abstinence
zaftig
discomfit
25. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
sui generis
penury
insouciant
wastrel
26. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
placebo
redoubtable
perquisite
palliate
27. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
malfeasance
concomitant
scotch
patois
28. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
sinuous
petulant
anathema
zeitgeist
29. Drowsy - sleepy
mordant
somnolent
protean
abscond
30. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
nonplus
bowdlerize
diaspora
raffish
31. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
vacuous
niggardly
fusillade
32. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
gesticulate
titular
sagacious
recalcitrant
33. Deception or trickery
maudlin
descry
chicanery
saturnine
34. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
imbroglio
temporize
placebo
paradigm
35. To stir up - to incite
adjure
desiccate
foment
exigent
36. To smile foolishly
profligate
sallow
simper
encomium
37. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
tony
apostasy
flagellate
ersatz
38. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
panacea
capricious
syllogism
propinquity
39. Forest-like - wooded
abeyance
chary
sylvan
espy
40. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
feckless
exemplar
oeuvre
gird
41. A file of documents - letters and records
dossier
gesticulate
aggrieve
slatternly
42. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
rout
patina
capricious
sangfroid
43. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
imbroglio
juggernaut
apocryphal
reprobate
44. Lustful - lascivious
disquiet
libidinous
patois
reticent
45. To make uneasy
sturm and drang
sycophant
disquiet
remuneration
46. Common - vulgar - low class
sine qua non
vicarious
plebeian
doggerel
47. Favorable to health
effete
reticent
fusillade
salubrious
48. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
perorate
dissipate
ruminate
protean
49. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
palliate
besmirch
determinism
repartee
50. Faithless - untrustworthy
doggerel
redoubtable
perfidious
sine qua non