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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. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
ancillary
sui generis
mordant
prescient
2. To gesture - especially when speaking
dilettante
gesticulate
prepossess
officious
3. Coming into existence - being born
nascent
sycophant
saturnine
raffish
4. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
repartee
stalwart
patois
pregnant
5. In title only
ennui
nabob
stalwart
titular
6. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
perquisite
facetious
rarefied
fey
7. A dominant or recurring theme
pallid
leitmotif
oeuvre
saturnine
8. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
repartee
rubric
abrogate
espy
9. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abeyance
abstinence
maudlin
portent
10. Animals
elliptical
surreptitious
fauna
histrionic
11. A remedy that cures everything
mercurial
panacea
matriculate
sagacious
12. Wildly fanciful - absurd
husbandry
temporize
deleterious
chimerical
13. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
propinquity
omnivorous
bumptious
nirvana
14. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
sangfroid
putrefy
enervate
imbroglio
15. To weaken - to sap the strength
prowess
enervate
accolade
intransigent
16. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
sui generis
omniscient
byzantine
ennui
17. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
adumbrate
apogee
apocryphal
chary
18. Award or honor - high praise
accolade
vacuous
plebeian
assiduous
19. Bad breath
doff
provenance
halitosis
zaftig
20. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
lope
contentious
disquiet
21. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
provenance
mirthful
behemoth
forswear
22. To enroll - most particularly in college
zephyr
doggerel
exigent
matriculate
23. Slander - deliberate false statements
gestalt
calumny
muckrake
adjure
24. Urgent - demands prompt action
halitosis
largess
machination
exigent
25. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
zeitgeist
levee
sententious
26. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
prurient
gerrymander
nirvana
27. To stir up - to incite
usury
perspicacious
diaspora
foment
28. Stingy
moribund
dossier
vicarious
parsimonious
29. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
histrionic
mendacious
desiccate
oeuvre
30. Evil - unjust
patois
encomium
iniquitous
puissance
31. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
enervate
depredate
chicanery
besmirch
32. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
gamin
gerrymander
bivouac
33. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
perorate
umbrage
gestalt
alchemy
34. A system of natural healing
abstruse
ancillary
interregnum
homeopathy
35. To give off - to conceal
secrete
salubrious
alchemy
foment
36. Dishonest - deceitful
malapropism
penury
mendacious
ancillary
37. A re-establishment of good relations
temerity
rapprochement
nirvana
covet
38. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
feral
insouciant
veracious
largess
39. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
akimbo
sententious
accolade
noisome
40. Native - belonging to a specific region
accouterments
endemic
dissipate
somnolent
41. Common - vulgar - low class
somnolent
brook
cataclysm
plebeian
42. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
obdurate
forswear
titular
43. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
wizened
assignation
temporize
titular
44. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
gesticulate
largess
descry
feral
45. Faithless - untrustworthy
tony
malfeasance
venerate
perfidious
46. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
profligate
depredate
dilettante
ignominious
47. Boldness - rashness - audacity
redoubtable
stalwart
temerity
ruminate
48. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
profligate
petulant
privation
patois
49. To deviate from the truth
prevaricate
histrionic
junta
niggardly
50. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
draconian
libidinous
wizened