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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. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
gird
miasma
oscillate
undulate
2. Facade - coating - outward appearance
halitosis
veneer
juggernaut
discomfit
3. A creative work - musical composition
iniquitous
circumlocution
ensconce
opus
4. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
timorous
miasma
flagellate
recalcitrant
5. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
facetious
abstruse
compunction
6. An intimate group of people with a common interest
titular
wizened
rarefied
coterie
7. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
putrefy
sagacious
obsequious
palliate
8. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
bathos
foment
gestalt
circumlocution
9. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
synergy
perorate
probity
junta
10. To run at a steady - easy pace
nabob
lassitude
lope
privation
11. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
maudlin
vagary
byzantine
husbandry
12. Power - strength
encomium
endemic
feckless
puissance
13. Being in a dying or decaying condition
diurnal
draconian
moribund
niggardly
14. Sweetly flowing
cortege
ascetic
mellifluous
scofflaw
15. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
adumbrate
mirthful
dulcet
chicanery
16. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
sangfroid
redoubtable
opus
panacea
17. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
privation
panegyric
usury
veracious
18. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
ersatz
fauna
husbandry
synergy
19. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
sui generis
fecund
remuneration
usury
20. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
nascent
inveterate
facetious
phlegmatic
21. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
machination
accouterments
inveterate
puissance
22. Coming into existence - being born
nascent
philistine
prevaricate
debacle
23. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
espy
bathos
ensconce
24. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
acquit
rife
feckless
ennui
25. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
portent
ribald
bowdlerize
spate
26. Division into two often contradictory parts
chimerical
abeyance
dichotomy
doff
27. Faithless - untrustworthy
fusillade
anathema
perfidious
ambulatory
28. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
salubrious
scofflaw
bumptious
29. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
dossier
obsequious
habeas corpus
philistine
30. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
dossier
chary
ensconce
perquisite
31. A disaster or violent breakdown
penury
dichotomy
debacle
neophyte
32. Animals
sallow
fauna
facetious
anomie
33. Retract - renounce or recant
desiccate
forswear
machination
dulcet
34. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
rarefied
apocryphal
effete
alchemy
35. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
apogee
clout
mirthful
insouciant
36. Advancing a point of view - biased
miasma
leitmotif
diurnal
tendentious
37. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
desiccate
gamin
antipodal
peregrination
38. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
onerous
mordant
maudlin
somnolent
39. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
bumptious
chicanery
histrionic
ribald
40. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
deleterious
perspicacious
imbroglio
timorous
41. To weaken - to sap the strength
penultimate
abstruse
enervate
chicanery
42. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
reprobate
feral
juggernaut
protean
43. Dishonest - deceitful
mendacious
propinquity
inveterate
bacchanal
44. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
juggernaut
philistine
sally
chimerical
45. All knowing - infinite awareness
omniscient
facetious
portent
nepotism
46. Forest-like - wooded
nonplus
sine qua non
stalwart
sylvan
47. A fake medication
placebo
shibboleth
surreptitious
parsimonious
48. Wise - shrewd
saturnine
accolade
probity
sagacious
49. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
supercilious
foment
fey
ruminate
50. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
largess
circumlocution
spelunker