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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 move smoothly in a wavelike manner
undulate
ancillary
puissance
privation
2. Uncompromising - stubborn
intransigent
decimate
gestalt
exigent
3. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
adjure
venerate
inveterate
abstruse
4. To put an end to
alacrity
panegyric
scotch
puissance
5. A temporary encampment
sagacious
cortege
bivouac
bathos
6. A gentle breeze
zephyr
itinerant
draconian
recalcitrant
7. To invest with authority - to brace
chimerical
pregnant
gird
antipodal
8. Coming into existence - being born
iniquitous
nascent
besmirch
junta
9. Hot-tempered - cranky
omniscient
bandy
irascible
akimbo
10. A moment - a short period of time
trice
salubrious
dichotomy
ersatz
11. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
trice
disquiet
ambulatory
levee
12. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
noisome
somnolent
wont
verdant
13. Without money - penniless
usury
cavil
paradigm
impecunious
14. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
libation
rife
reprobate
penultimate
15. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
sally
zaftig
perorate
gamin
16. Animals
fauna
scofflaw
insouciant
salubrious
17. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
ancillary
secrete
gamin
ameliorate
18. Able to walk or move about
malapropism
diurnal
temporize
ambulatory
19. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
encomium
vacuous
interregnum
malapropism
20. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
pluralism
viscosity
nirvana
nabob
21. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
saturnine
rout
anathema
compunction
22. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
diurnal
oeuvre
evanescent
accouterments
23. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
malapropism
feckless
espy
aegis
24. An apparition - phantom
raffish
phantasm
histrionic
dossier
25. Pungent - charmingly provocative
dossier
piquant
syllogism
toothsome
26. Lending money at a high interest rate
oeuvre
paradigm
phlegmatic
usury
27. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
apocryphal
syllogism
placebo
apostasy
28. Merry - gleeful
macerate
determinism
assiduous
mirthful
29. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
perfunctory
nihilism
abrogate
ensconce
30. To wish for with envy
gesticulate
ribald
covet
penultimate
31. Shriveled - withered
veneer
wizened
vitriolic
aggrieve
32. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
sinuous
imbroglio
portent
striated
33. Evil - unjust
rubric
iniquitous
obdurate
neophyte
34. A re-establishment of good relations
rife
rapprochement
matriculate
truculent
35. Extreme poverty
penury
cogitate
perorate
bacchanal
36. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
tony
evanescent
omnivorous
intransigent
37. To enroll - most particularly in college
titular
impugn
matriculate
gestalt
38. Moving from place to place
gird
itinerant
prurient
nirvana
39. To tolerate - to put up with something
nabob
cogitate
brook
toothsome
40. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
draconian
repartee
syllogism
sinuous
41. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
maudlin
cachet
contentious
bandy
42. To confuse - deceive
acquit
slatternly
interregnum
discomfit
43. Favorable to health
salubrious
behemoth
perfidious
viscosity
44. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
anathema
remuneration
apocryphal
nascent
45. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
perorate
largess
acquit
raffish
46. A large - disastrous fire
impervious
effete
prowess
conflagration
47. A wealthy - influential person
usury
nabob
perspicacious
ruminate
48. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
scofflaw
wont
doggerel
circumlocution
49. Lustful - lascivious
ameliorate
libidinous
spelunker
cachet
50. All knowing - infinite awareness
malapropism
prurient
omniscient
coterie