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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Dishonest - deceitful
arbiter
sally
ossify
mendacious
2. To honor - to worship - to respect
husbandry
bowdlerize
venerate
mellifluous
3. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
chicanery
maudlin
impervious
effete
4. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
dilettante
sinuous
sylvan
5. Hostile - aggressive - savage
ribald
myopia
truculent
omniscient
6. Native - belonging to a specific region
endemic
usury
opus
striated
7. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
vainglorious
recalcitrant
foment
8. Environment - surroundings
cortege
synergy
milieu
muckrake
9. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
prowess
castigate
temporize
garrulous
10. State of rest or inactivity
probity
fecund
toothsome
quiescence
11. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
niggardly
accouterments
extirpate
fusillade
12. A re-establishment of good relations
rapprochement
gestalt
panacea
noisome
13. Stingy
arbiter
sturm and drang
parsimonious
junta
14. The act of repeating an offense
recidivism
philistine
opus
sally
15. A drunken reveler or orgy
martinet
patois
gird
bacchanal
16. To enroll - most particularly in college
somnolent
matriculate
cachet
bowdlerize
17. To distress - to mistreat
penultimate
flagellate
prurient
aggrieve
18. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
levee
enervate
malfeasance
descry
19. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
sycophant
arbiter
aegis
mordant
20. A large - disastrous fire
conflagration
peregrination
bivouac
erudite
21. Harmful
deleterious
ersatz
sycophant
sinuous
22. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
chary
provenance
placebo
moribund
23. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
apogee
myopia
ennui
ancillary
24. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
vicarious
rife
provenance
itinerant
25. An excellent model - a typical example
placebo
protean
impecunious
exemplar
26. Overly sentimental
striated
prurient
maudlin
pluralism
27. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
iniquitous
patois
nirvana
myopia
28. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
habeas corpus
noisome
inchoate
29. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
reprobate
desiccate
raffish
shibboleth
30. To make better - to ease or improve
ameliorate
bathos
espy
castigate
31. Stingy - small in a mean way
niggardly
accolade
exemplar
juggernaut
32. 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
diaspora
peregrination
sui generis
byzantine
33. Wise - shrewd
sagacious
fusillade
malfeasance
sally
34. Occurring during the day - happens every day
cavil
interregnum
diurnal
vainglorious
35. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
discomfit
pregnant
junta
bandy
36. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
perquisite
circumlocution
behemoth
prepossess
37. Honesty - uprightness
probity
scofflaw
forswear
toothsome
38. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
striated
perquisite
pluralism
cabal
39. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
pregnant
zeitgeist
perorate
protean
40. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
concomitant
provenance
dulcet
ruminate
41. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
sinuous
moribund
levee
doff
42. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
histrionic
putrefy
fauna
habeas corpus
43. A massive - unstoppable object
doff
endemic
covet
juggernaut
44. Retract - renounce or recant
forswear
vacuous
compunction
bathos
45. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
lope
akimbo
vicarious
besmirch
46. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
zaftig
intransigent
neophyte
synergy
47. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
sui generis
venerate
perfunctory
parsimonious
48. Burden - blame - obligation
exigent
opprobrious
onus
scotch
49. Advancing a point of view - biased
irascible
contentious
tendentious
placebo
50. Fawning - subservient - servile
wizened
prevaricate
obsequious
halitosis
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