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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. Severe - exceedingly harsh
intransigent
conflagration
forswear
draconian
2. Dishonest - deceitful
cabal
mendacious
hoary
obsequious
3. To leave quickly and secretively
ignominious
abscond
malfeasance
perspicacious
4. Slander - deliberate false statements
gesticulate
exigent
calumny
plebeian
5. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
redoubtable
feckless
macerate
onerous
6. Boldness - rashness - audacity
ensconce
temerity
halitosis
mercurial
7. Nearness in place or time - kinship
descry
propinquity
ignominious
fauna
8. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
abstruse
punctilious
matriculate
wizened
9. Stubborn
recalcitrant
bowdlerize
obdurate
probity
10. A re-establishment of good relations
junta
foment
perquisite
rapprochement
11. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
moribund
protean
sartorial
spelunker
12. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
bilious
repartee
malapropism
impervious
13. Forest-like - wooded
fetter
omniscient
syllogism
sylvan
14. Uncompromising - stubborn
malapropism
moribund
prepossess
intransigent
15. A creative work - musical composition
opus
vainglorious
zeitgeist
feckless
16. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
impervious
histrionic
tony
sallow
17. Marked with thin lines or grooves
venerate
striated
insouciant
ennui
18. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
juggernaut
behemoth
exemplar
byzantine
19. To dry out
gerrymander
exemplar
insouciant
desiccate
20. Stingy
moribund
parsimonious
covet
flagellate
21. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
nihilism
gird
hidebound
descry
22. To invest with authority - to brace
dulcet
elan
gird
ascetic
23. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
temporize
nonplus
abrogate
24. Full-figured - plump
nihilism
rapprochement
zaftig
lope
25. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
recondite
syllogism
ambulatory
bowdlerize
26. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
recidivism
bacchanal
lope
portent
27. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
nepotism
belie
aegis
veneer
28. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
trice
reprobate
placebo
macerate
29. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
hoary
bacchanal
panegyric
tendentious
30. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
myopia
draconian
provenance
viscosity
31. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
moribund
largess
sui generis
levee
32. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
acquit
sententious
exigent
malapropism
33. Award or honor - high praise
patina
propinquity
sangfroid
accolade
34. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
erudite
redoubtable
machination
ascetic
35. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
piquant
fey
vainglorious
savant
36. Generous
sententious
munificent
matriculate
lope
37. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
matriculate
sangfroid
clout
bilious
38. A file of documents - letters and records
officious
dossier
mordant
pluralism
39. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
paradigm
bathos
anomie
recondite
40. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
implacable
abstinence
prevaricate
sententious
41. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
striated
prurient
synergy
42. To make uneasy
disquiet
raffish
phantasm
punctilious
43. To confuse - deceive
exigent
accouterments
recalcitrant
discomfit
44. Merry - gleeful
sagacious
provenance
tendentious
mirthful
45. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
syllogism
elan
officious
vicarious
46. Honesty - uprightness
probity
adjure
wizened
libidinous
47. 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
chary
moribund
wastrel
diaspora
48. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
bilious
accouterments
spate
acquit
49. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
cachet
ruminate
perorate
apocryphal
50. Truthful - honest
putrefy
patina
veracious
compunction