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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. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
endemic
adumbrate
bilious
fauna
2. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
umbrage
savant
deleterious
niggardly
3. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
neophyte
gamin
perquisite
depredate
4. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
acquit
sally
temporize
recidivism
5. Severe - exceedingly harsh
draconian
compunction
bacchanal
niggardly
6. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
nirvana
toothsome
protean
prurient
7. Hot-tempered - cranky
imbroglio
irascible
cortege
veracious
8. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
provenance
saturnine
bon vivant
junta
9. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
nepotism
simper
rife
gesticulate
10. Displeasure or resentment - shade
accolade
dilettante
apostasy
umbrage
11. Merry - gleeful
hidebound
facetious
mirthful
ignominious
12. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
sally
recalcitrant
evanescent
13. Relating to dress or fashion
veneer
sartorial
draconian
sinuous
14. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
recondite
fetter
omnivorous
acquit
15. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
undulate
apoplexy
raffish
malfeasance
16. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
leitmotif
cavil
toothsome
opus
17. State of rest or inactivity
exemplar
temporize
quiescence
intransigent
18. A system of natural healing
putrefy
oscillate
exigent
homeopathy
19. A disaster or violent breakdown
castigate
dissipate
debacle
redoubtable
20. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
scofflaw
accouterments
profligate
obsequious
21. Hostile - aggressive - savage
sui generis
ensconce
truculent
intransigent
22. An intimate group of people with a common interest
milieu
deleterious
coterie
prepossess
23. A re-establishment of good relations
rubric
rapprochement
temporize
perquisite
24. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
placebo
paradigm
diaspora
recondite
25. Animals
fauna
philistine
imbroglio
anomie
26. Fertile - productive - fruitful
veracious
fecund
dilettante
wastrel
27. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
hoary
munificent
wastrel
bowdlerize
28. Nearness in place or time - kinship
propinquity
niggardly
gird
sagacious
29. To weaken - to sap the strength
cogitate
phlegmatic
effete
enervate
30. To make better - to ease or improve
shibboleth
chary
ameliorate
oeuvre
31. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
macerate
mellifluous
leitmotif
fey
32. Sneaky - secret
perfidious
surreptitious
homeopathy
acquit
33. Payment - recompense
veracious
remuneration
neophyte
wizened
34. Oval - obscure in expression
perfidious
elliptical
doggerel
prepossess
35. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
concomitant
elan
covet
portent
36. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
paradigm
halitosis
patois
vainglorious
37. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
abscond
inveterate
munificent
ancillary
38. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
garrulous
fey
sallow
bowdlerize
39. A procession - a group of attendants
cogitate
cortege
effete
timorous
40. Faithless - untrustworthy
debacle
nirvana
perfidious
vagary
41. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
inchoate
perorate
prevaricate
noisome
42. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
homeopathy
sententious
veneer
oeuvre
43. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
antipodal
officious
usury
striated
44. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
bumptious
cataclysm
dossier
inveterate
45. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
muckrake
anathema
petulant
fey
46. An inferior substitute
ersatz
ensconce
juggernaut
recondite
47. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
phlegmatic
vacuous
macerate
48. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
quiescence
sententious
somnolent
flagellate
49. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
privation
prowess
malfeasance
50. In title only
clout
titular
adumbrate
profligate