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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. Subsidiary - subordinate
determinism
rapprochement
dissipate
ancillary
2. Fawning - subservient - servile
sinuous
obsequious
penury
vicarious
3. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
officious
adumbrate
sylvan
4. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
akimbo
behemoth
omnivorous
repartee
5. To leave quickly and secretively
encomium
penury
gird
abscond
6. To impede - restrain - hamper
hoary
extirpate
peregrination
fetter
7. Slander - deliberate false statements
vitriolic
irascible
rapprochement
calumny
8. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
officious
elliptical
perquisite
stalwart
9. Favorable to health
secrete
salubrious
paradigm
belie
10. To wish for with envy
covet
nonplus
phantasm
disquiet
11. To attack the integrity of something
libation
assiduous
ameliorate
impugn
12. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
peregrination
sagacious
dissipate
13. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
implacable
facetious
nihilism
depredate
14. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
lassitude
endemic
protean
espy
15. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
perspicacious
puissance
apostasy
repartee
16. A dominant or recurring theme
niggardly
bumptious
recondite
leitmotif
17. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
vitriolic
levee
byzantine
enervate
18. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
ersatz
homeopathy
abscond
facetious
19. Truthful - honest
veracious
scofflaw
stalwart
privation
20. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
gamin
adjure
ossify
foment
21. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
concomitant
lassitude
impugn
penury
22. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
abeyance
prowess
descry
stalwart
23. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
remuneration
myopia
libidinous
fetter
24. Accompanying - attending - going along with
doff
concomitant
enervate
phlegmatic
25. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
vagary
moribund
cogitate
shibboleth
26. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
philistine
inveterate
feral
onus
27. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
obdurate
cavil
cataclysm
sallow
28. Relating to dress or fashion
penury
parsimonious
sartorial
synergy
29. Overly sentimental
perspicacious
aegis
neophyte
maudlin
30. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
tendentious
mercurial
forswear
ossify
31. The mood or spirit of the times
petulant
zeitgeist
myopia
palliate
32. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
adjure
cachet
gerrymander
rarefied
33. Merry - gleeful
rubric
dulcet
reticent
mirthful
34. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
chary
rife
perspicacious
machination
35. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
ascetic
feral
macerate
prowess
36. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
spate
bandy
sententious
erudite
37. Evil - unjust
iniquitous
verdant
opprobrious
ethnocentric
38. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
depredate
fey
sui generis
verdant
39. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
syllogism
perspicacious
phantasm
phlegmatic
40. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
covet
bon vivant
ruminate
synergy
41. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
dulcet
provenance
bivouac
gamin
42. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
rarefied
dissipate
protean
fetter
43. Advancing a point of view - biased
determinism
zeitgeist
anathema
tendentious
44. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
irascible
verdant
libation
determinism
45. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
perorate
placebo
chimerical
saturnine
46. To weaken - to sap the strength
somnolent
dichotomy
opprobrious
enervate
47. Custom - habit
clout
cachet
wont
inchoate
48. An excellent model - a typical example
exemplar
debacle
tendentious
libidinous
49. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
reticent
dichotomy
exigent
50. Nearness in place or time - kinship
exigent
propinquity
erudite
peregrination