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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. Having foresight
extirpate
facetious
prescient
wastrel
2. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
tony
provenance
bumptious
imbroglio
3. Urgent - demands prompt action
sangfroid
exigent
adjure
tendentious
4. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
perspicacious
stalwart
opprobrious
munificent
5. Whim - an unpredictable action
vagary
parsimonious
propinquity
sallow
6. An expedition - wandering
plebeian
sententious
myopia
peregrination
7. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
histrionic
niggardly
spate
anomie
8. To deny - to speak or act against
implacable
ennui
gainsay
truculent
9. A fake medication
venerate
placebo
ribald
prurient
10. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
ethnocentric
impervious
repartee
sui generis
11. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
officious
repartee
ersatz
placebo
12. To kill or destroy a large part of
aggrieve
secrete
raffish
decimate
13. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
shibboleth
panegyric
ambulatory
largess
14. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
desiccate
probity
facetious
apostasy
15. A gentle breeze
zephyr
diurnal
plebeian
supercilious
16. Custom - habit
wont
juggernaut
vicarious
syllogism
17. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
conflagration
mordant
impugn
apocryphal
18. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
pregnant
circumlocution
facetious
cavil
19. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
apogee
effete
provenance
junta
20. A temporary encampment
dichotomy
akimbo
bivouac
halitosis
21. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
apoplexy
largess
itinerant
parsimonious
22. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
sagacious
junta
feral
bathos
23. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
mercurial
officious
sinuous
reprobate
24. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
raffish
alacrity
juggernaut
25. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
ascetic
matriculate
punctilious
veracious
26. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
myopia
quiescence
inchoate
abrogate
27. Shriveled - withered
compunction
wizened
interregnum
scofflaw
28. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
ascetic
sinuous
rubric
extirpate
29. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
elan
covet
reticent
akimbo
30. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
abscond
gainsay
probity
pluralism
31. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
lope
mercurial
aegis
wont
32. Hardworking - busy - diligent
sycophant
assiduous
covet
inveterate
33. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
puissance
accouterments
remuneration
diaspora
34. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
evanescent
bivouac
mellifluous
histrionic
35. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
halitosis
gerrymander
iniquitous
bon vivant
36. To honor - to worship - to respect
fusillade
matriculate
leitmotif
venerate
37. To expose political misconduct
rife
bandy
muckrake
nihilism
38. Stingy - small in a mean way
castigate
niggardly
enervate
somnolent
39. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
toothsome
antipodal
ancillary
obsequious
40. An illegal act especially by a public official
malfeasance
truculent
perorate
apocryphal
41. To stir up - to incite
foment
martinet
facetious
truculent
42. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
juggernaut
cogitate
vicarious
junta
43. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
rout
lassitude
covet
fetter
44. An apparition - phantom
scotch
zeitgeist
prevaricate
phantasm
45. To tolerate - to put up with something
cavil
chimerical
miasma
brook
46. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
veneer
mirthful
histrionic
perquisite
47. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
gestalt
miasma
scotch
determinism
48. To smile foolishly
prepossess
diaspora
chimerical
simper
49. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
titular
parsimonious
viscosity
phantasm
50. A large - disastrous fire
castigate
conflagration
abstinence
erudite