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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. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
synergy
itinerant
omniscient
determinism
2. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
insouciant
brook
largess
temerity
3. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
vicarious
zaftig
discomfit
4. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
extirpate
acquit
contentious
sally
5. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
accouterments
spelunker
reticent
rubric
6. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
leitmotif
panacea
fusillade
junta
7. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
mendacious
zaftig
accouterments
ethnocentric
8. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
redoubtable
adumbrate
adjure
spate
9. Boldness - rashness - audacity
penury
temerity
apocryphal
mellifluous
10. A drunken reveler or orgy
ethnocentric
bacchanal
abeyance
plebeian
11. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
recondite
savant
inchoate
alacrity
12. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
dossier
impecunious
gamin
13. Oval - obscure in expression
piquant
paradigm
milieu
elliptical
14. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
feral
impervious
toothsome
veneer
15. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
alchemy
sturm and drang
noisome
exigent
16. Lacking color - wan
deleterious
discomfit
pallid
descry
17. Hardworking - busy - diligent
assiduous
sylvan
bumptious
wizened
18. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
chicanery
accouterments
rubric
19. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
foment
depredate
privation
aggrieve
20. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
recondite
saturnine
zaftig
apogee
21. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
perorate
simper
imbroglio
perfidious
22. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
perorate
miasma
dulcet
puissance
23. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
penultimate
cachet
akimbo
acquit
24. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
byzantine
debacle
vicarious
dichotomy
25. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
cachet
diaspora
fetter
nihilism
26. Stingy - small in a mean way
niggardly
gesticulate
implacable
determinism
27. Truthful - honest
comport
syllogism
obsequious
veracious
28. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
sartorial
penury
privation
nihilism
29. A judge - one who decides
arbiter
brook
secrete
intransigent
30. Dishonest - deceitful
mendacious
cavil
perfunctory
fetter
31. An expedition - wandering
peregrination
capricious
dissipate
desiccate
32. Empty - lacking intelligence
machination
contentious
vacuous
slatternly
33. Marked with thin lines or grooves
striated
peregrination
discomfit
shibboleth
34. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
gerrymander
conflagration
zeitgeist
profligate
35. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
interregnum
besmirch
cogitate
mirthful
36. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
abscond
miasma
cogitate
nepotism
37. To wish for with envy
machination
cogitate
shibboleth
covet
38. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
muckrake
repartee
onerous
libation
39. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
perfidious
accouterments
espy
temporize
40. Occurring during the day - happens every day
diurnal
decimate
homeopathy
evanescent
41. A model or example
paradigm
zaftig
insouciant
nepotism
42. In title only
draconian
recondite
putrefy
titular
43. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
bathos
perquisite
rarefied
phantasm
44. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
macerate
palliate
itinerant
espy
45. A re-establishment of good relations
discomfit
calumny
fauna
rapprochement
46. Hard to understand or grasp
mordant
machination
abstruse
redoubtable
47. To stir up - to incite
leitmotif
sartorial
endemic
foment
48. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
irascible
cabal
niggardly
interregnum
49. Deception or trickery
patina
truculent
cabal
chicanery
50. To impede - restrain - hamper
enervate
fetter
capricious
zephyr