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SAT Word Power Harder
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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. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
coterie
omnivorous
vainglorious
2. A temporary suspension of activity
matriculate
alchemy
abeyance
anomie
3. To make uneasy
ersatz
penultimate
disquiet
itinerant
4. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
penultimate
philistine
prevaricate
shibboleth
5. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
trice
bon vivant
omniscient
inveterate
6. To weaken - to sap the strength
castigate
enervate
gerrymander
putrefy
7. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
lassitude
obsequious
fusillade
nihilism
8. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
provenance
verdant
clout
oeuvre
9. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
reprobate
bivouac
pregnant
decimate
10. Severe - exceedingly harsh
abeyance
habeas corpus
draconian
concomitant
11. Wildly fanciful - absurd
chimerical
abstinence
erudite
debacle
12. Retract - renounce or recant
forswear
effete
gainsay
recalcitrant
13. To kill or destroy a large part of
draconian
pregnant
decimate
patois
14. State of rest or inactivity
gamin
abscond
quiescence
depredate
15. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
prurient
puissance
raffish
shibboleth
16. Dishonest - deceitful
zaftig
synergy
recidivism
mendacious
17. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
sui generis
ascetic
propinquity
impugn
18. An expedition - wandering
peregrination
belie
neophyte
chimerical
19. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
synergy
chimerical
descry
noisome
20. Advancing a point of view - biased
perfunctory
omniscient
timorous
tendentious
21. Without money - penniless
officious
impecunious
syllogism
inveterate
22. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
supercilious
vitriolic
espy
ersatz
23. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
patois
piquant
dilettante
ignominious
24. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
feral
synergy
titular
venerate
25. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
moribund
anomie
bumptious
besmirch
26. An apparition - phantom
cogitate
phantasm
abscond
gestalt
27. To wish for with envy
dissipate
vitriolic
covet
bowdlerize
28. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
rarefied
martinet
cabal
fecund
29. Payment - recompense
hoary
officious
nihilism
remuneration
30. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
fey
abstinence
lassitude
compunction
31. Subsidiary - subordinate
ancillary
implacable
discomfit
rapprochement
32. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
cachet
impecunious
besmirch
apostasy
33. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
simper
macerate
prepossess
aegis
34. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
mordant
philistine
iniquitous
lassitude
35. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
rapprochement
evanescent
timorous
dichotomy
36. To rot
husbandry
hoary
fey
putrefy
37. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
dilettante
synergy
flagellate
adjure
38. One who adheres strictly to rules
espy
martinet
dulcet
simper
39. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
privation
juggernaut
lassitude
40. To behave
portent
comport
supercilious
chicanery
41. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malapropism
stalwart
quiescence
byzantine
42. The act of repeating an offense
recidivism
inveterate
ancillary
extirpate
43. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
undulate
junta
umbrage
cabal
44. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
behemoth
maudlin
sturm and drang
titular
45. A remedy that cures everything
prowess
aegis
panacea
vacuous
46. A model or example
sangfroid
panacea
paradigm
draconian
47. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
accolade
sententious
nabob
48. Hostile - aggressive - savage
muckrake
fusillade
truculent
spelunker
49. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
abeyance
onerous
zaftig
philistine
50. Next to last
penultimate
adumbrate
pregnant
dissipate