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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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1. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
niggardly
implacable
prurient
effete
2. A temporary encampment
shibboleth
ensconce
prowess
bivouac
3. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
extirpate
exigent
draconian
impervious
4. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
sturm and drang
punctilious
bandy
sartorial
5. A sudden outburst
spate
viscosity
sycophant
saturnine
6. Boastful - pompous
temporize
vainglorious
lope
shibboleth
7. Empty - lacking intelligence
vacuous
veneer
undulate
sine qua non
8. To bewilder - to puzzle
nonplus
recondite
pallid
niggardly
9. Stingy - small in a mean way
nonplus
slatternly
rout
niggardly
10. A drunken reveler or orgy
salubrious
dulcet
ameliorate
bacchanal
11. To stir up - to incite
hidebound
hoary
implacable
foment
12. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
nihilism
extirpate
wont
puissance
13. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
gainsay
petulant
chimerical
temerity
14. Lacking color - wan
perspicacious
pallid
determinism
peregrination
15. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
redoubtable
scofflaw
assignation
secrete
16. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
oeuvre
nirvana
feckless
adjure
17. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
portent
impervious
apogee
compunction
18. Wise - shrewd
temporize
slatternly
sagacious
sine qua non
19. Favorable to health
muckrake
evanescent
facetious
salubrious
20. A procession - a group of attendants
antipodal
mordant
adjure
cortege
21. Severe - exceedingly harsh
draconian
placebo
neophyte
decimate
22. Hardworking - busy - diligent
assiduous
abrogate
adjure
saturnine
23. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
nirvana
punctilious
belie
ethnocentric
24. An inferior substitute
ersatz
depredate
ribald
gainsay
25. Moving from place to place
itinerant
oeuvre
secrete
halitosis
26. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
reprobate
nabob
husbandry
evanescent
27. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
ascetic
alchemy
gestalt
28. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
alchemy
adumbrate
cabal
gamin
29. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
macerate
penultimate
mordant
placebo
30. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
miasma
sui generis
vicarious
31. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
flagellate
rarefied
sinuous
32. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
slatternly
munificent
officious
zephyr
33. To leave quickly and secretively
alacrity
abscond
truculent
acquit
34. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
compunction
cortege
effete
besmirch
35. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
synergy
gamin
impugn
alacrity
36. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
onus
miasma
dichotomy
ascetic
37. To deny - to speak or act against
patina
erudite
gainsay
brook
38. A cave explorer
discomfit
spelunker
undulate
prurient
39. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
wont
phlegmatic
parsimonious
disquiet
40. 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
doff
onus
diaspora
malapropism
41. Without money - penniless
impecunious
assignation
largess
castigate
42. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
descry
abstruse
perspicacious
behemoth
43. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
chicanery
toothsome
forswear
gamin
44. A judge - one who decides
petulant
ancillary
quiescence
arbiter
45. Fertile - productive - fruitful
libation
fecund
wastrel
ensconce
46. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
temporize
syllogism
perquisite
47. To honor - to worship - to respect
coterie
viscosity
titular
venerate
48. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
assignation
supercilious
habeas corpus
perquisite
49. To run at a steady - easy pace
antipodal
accolade
lope
onus
50. To make uneasy
disquiet
perspicacious
exemplar
punctilious