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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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1. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
punctilious
shibboleth
striated
dulcet
2. The mood or spirit of the times
privation
zeitgeist
habeas corpus
bacchanal
3. To make uneasy
alacrity
disquiet
facetious
milieu
4. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
antipodal
feral
accouterments
palliate
5. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
venerate
calumny
patois
abrogate
6. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
zephyr
elan
raffish
ossify
7. Displeasure or resentment - shade
perorate
aggrieve
umbrage
vitriolic
8. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
petulant
apogee
rarefied
mercurial
9. Empty - lacking intelligence
vacuous
sangfroid
homeopathy
apogee
10. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
belie
inchoate
fusillade
omniscient
11. Generous
verdant
munificent
flagellate
apoplexy
12. Advancing a point of view - biased
antipodal
homeopathy
tendentious
tony
13. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
vacuous
castigate
insouciant
dichotomy
14. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
parsimonious
provenance
apostasy
15. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
wastrel
omniscient
abrogate
oeuvre
16. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
sartorial
facetious
perorate
nabob
17. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
machination
disquiet
discomfit
18. To wish for with envy
libidinous
covet
placebo
inveterate
19. Environment - surroundings
coterie
sylvan
privation
milieu
20. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
fusillade
sangfroid
stalwart
21. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
halitosis
spate
doggerel
sinuous
22. 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
inchoate
diaspora
imbroglio
apocryphal
23. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
calumny
flagellate
encomium
bon vivant
24. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
dissipate
rarefied
cataclysm
gird
25. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
veracious
perorate
malapropism
nabob
26. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
bumptious
panacea
miasma
adumbrate
27. A wealthy - influential person
depredate
gestalt
punctilious
nabob
28. One who is continually breaking the law
fecund
vagary
supercilious
scofflaw
29. A dominant or recurring theme
leitmotif
apoplexy
sturm and drang
cachet
30. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
forswear
phlegmatic
viscosity
31. Division into two often contradictory parts
sinuous
dichotomy
iniquitous
hidebound
32. Something that is an essential condition of
sine qua non
dissipate
wont
sally
33. To invest with authority - to brace
gird
mirthful
gerrymander
martinet
34. An illegal act especially by a public official
malfeasance
cogitate
miasma
alacrity
35. To honor - to worship - to respect
plebeian
belie
temporize
venerate
36. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
omniscient
cataclysm
bacchanal
sangfroid
37. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
martinet
muckrake
opprobrious
mercurial
38. Protection - patronage
aegis
palliate
macerate
circumlocution
39. Talkative
mirthful
milieu
garrulous
abeyance
40. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
antipodal
remuneration
habeas corpus
mellifluous
41. Coming into existence - being born
fetter
chicanery
nascent
neophyte
42. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
determinism
opus
probity
43. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
panegyric
inchoate
bon vivant
reprobate
44. Heading - title - category
diaspora
rubric
chary
vicarious
45. To stir up - to incite
apocryphal
surreptitious
rapprochement
foment
46. Fertile - productive - fruitful
abstruse
onus
fecund
circumlocution
47. Slander - deliberate false statements
deleterious
apocryphal
calumny
panacea
48. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
diaspora
parsimonious
histrionic
byzantine
49. Oval - obscure in expression
elliptical
puissance
myopia
dissipate
50. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
prepossess
opprobrious
mordant
nonplus
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