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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. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
irascible
raffish
moribund
alacrity
2. To wish for with envy
slatternly
trice
covet
placebo
3. To expose political misconduct
largess
pallid
fey
muckrake
4. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
acquit
cogitate
juggernaut
sycophant
5. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
penury
chicanery
apoplexy
opus
6. Without money - penniless
impecunious
syllogism
adjure
oscillate
7. Sweetly flowing
reticent
palliate
mellifluous
rubric
8. To invest with authority - to brace
reticent
sangfroid
verdant
gird
9. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
sturm and drang
perfunctory
omnivorous
diaspora
10. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
mordant
abstinence
dilettante
espy
11. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
pregnant
capricious
paradigm
remuneration
12. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
perspicacious
munificent
supercilious
bandy
13. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
fauna
extirpate
ersatz
spelunker
14. Talkative
elan
garrulous
surreptitious
venerate
15. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
supercilious
abstruse
covet
repartee
16. Burden - blame - obligation
aggrieve
fusillade
levee
onus
17. A model or example
paradigm
tony
impugn
apogee
18. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
reprobate
gestalt
moribund
libation
19. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
supercilious
probity
chimerical
largess
20. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
bathos
onerous
implacable
striated
21. A temporary suspension of activity
pallid
abeyance
vicarious
anomie
22. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
sturm and drang
dulcet
homeopathy
circumlocution
23. To enroll - most particularly in college
exigent
matriculate
sallow
rife
24. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
plebeian
antipodal
savant
wastrel
25. Boldness - rashness - audacity
inchoate
largess
temerity
bivouac
26. Environment - surroundings
obdurate
milieu
hidebound
nepotism
27. Moving from place to place
saturnine
gesticulate
pallid
itinerant
28. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
sententious
doff
umbrage
venerate
29. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
slatternly
titular
patois
discomfit
30. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
provenance
myopia
contentious
paradigm
31. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
toothsome
effete
antipodal
sui generis
32. To make better - to ease or improve
coterie
ameliorate
munificent
surreptitious
33. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
ascetic
abrogate
bowdlerize
pluralism
34. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
reticent
belie
gamin
bumptious
35. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
patina
reprobate
syllogism
profligate
36. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
assignation
homeopathy
perspicacious
rapprochement
37. To stir up - to incite
descry
wizened
foment
palliate
38. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
insouciant
martinet
anomie
pregnant
39. Deception or trickery
histrionic
chicanery
punctilious
tony
40. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
synergy
depredate
probity
acquit
41. Coming into existence - being born
nascent
abrogate
aggrieve
halitosis
42. Disgraceful and dishonorable
fauna
clout
nirvana
ignominious
43. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
alchemy
peregrination
akimbo
44. Being in a dying or decaying condition
sally
obdurate
moribund
chicanery
45. Empty - lacking intelligence
levee
vacuous
somnolent
muckrake
46. Turmoil
nirvana
sturm and drang
impugn
effete
47. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
husbandry
vicarious
acquit
shibboleth
48. Protection - patronage
prurient
aegis
sturm and drang
parsimonious
49. A system of natural healing
fusillade
homeopathy
opus
moribund
50. Hostile - aggressive - savage
truculent
savant
alchemy
quiescence