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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. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
sinuous
privation
officious
imbroglio
2. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
byzantine
niggardly
irascible
3. Burden - blame - obligation
anathema
provenance
onus
exigent
4. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
apogee
sui generis
elliptical
perfidious
5. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
synergy
abrogate
punctilious
apostasy
6. Merry - gleeful
timorous
portent
akimbo
mirthful
7. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
implacable
panegyric
salubrious
deleterious
8. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
bathos
behemoth
patina
panacea
9. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
wastrel
insouciant
contentious
descry
10. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
perspicacious
saturnine
castigate
aggrieve
11. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
alchemy
gerrymander
discomfit
12. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
depredate
usury
feckless
determinism
13. Native - belonging to a specific region
putrefy
endemic
obdurate
capricious
14. Being in a dying or decaying condition
abrogate
moribund
itinerant
vagary
15. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
phlegmatic
rife
machination
garrulous
16. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
covet
perquisite
endemic
onerous
17. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
ersatz
privation
evanescent
cogitate
18. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
capricious
sylvan
garrulous
undulate
19. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
conflagration
elliptical
apoplexy
covet
20. Whim - an unpredictable action
elliptical
probity
vagary
irascible
21. Overly sentimental
palliate
recalcitrant
perfunctory
maudlin
22. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
circumlocution
supercilious
onerous
cavil
23. To confuse - deceive
maudlin
discomfit
venerate
extirpate
24. A cave explorer
cabal
spelunker
inchoate
mendacious
25. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
rout
sine qua non
obdurate
phantasm
26. To invest with authority - to brace
gird
noisome
concomitant
opprobrious
27. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
sycophant
adumbrate
accouterments
28. In title only
acquit
syllogism
titular
macerate
29. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
miasma
adjure
elan
30. Award or honor - high praise
facetious
accolade
protean
depredate
31. Next to last
akimbo
viscosity
penultimate
obdurate
32. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
decimate
rarefied
quiescence
omniscient
33. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
bilious
akimbo
philistine
mercurial
34. Without money - penniless
discomfit
peregrination
impecunious
vacuous
35. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
brook
akimbo
insouciant
impecunious
36. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
ribald
scofflaw
fey
truculent
37. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
assiduous
cabal
elan
draconian
38. To run at a steady - easy pace
spate
lope
accolade
gird
39. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
acquit
penury
adumbrate
gerrymander
40. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
flagellate
mordant
spate
synergy
41. Faithless - untrustworthy
ennui
enervate
perfidious
sally
42. Environment - surroundings
slatternly
contentious
milieu
propinquity
43. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
assiduous
officious
fauna
libation
44. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
elan
doggerel
rapprochement
disquiet
45. Squalid - a slovenly woman
parsimonious
fusillade
slatternly
perquisite
46. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
scofflaw
rout
parsimonious
47. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
wastrel
piquant
exemplar
anomie
48. To bewilder - to puzzle
nonplus
ruminate
piquant
recalcitrant
49. To attack the integrity of something
pluralism
sturm and drang
impugn
levee
50. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
privation
iniquitous
extirpate
nascent