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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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 secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
onus
reticent
cabal
assignation
2. A eulogy or expression of high praise
doggerel
irascible
abstruse
encomium
3. To stir up - to incite
feckless
foment
vicarious
accouterments
4. Favorable to health
bumptious
salubrious
impecunious
apostasy
5. Honesty - uprightness
usury
dossier
probity
bumptious
6. Oval - obscure in expression
recondite
elliptical
habeas corpus
nabob
7. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
prowess
deleterious
phantasm
8. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
toothsome
rubric
pregnant
spate
9. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
acquit
disquiet
feckless
coterie
10. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
vicarious
salubrious
dichotomy
hoary
11. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
accouterments
elan
inchoate
sally
12. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
levee
onus
obsequious
opprobrious
13. To smile foolishly
simper
homeopathy
largess
accouterments
14. Vulgar or indecent language
ribald
ambulatory
ethnocentric
descry
15. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
omniscient
alchemy
determinism
veracious
16. An inferior substitute
ersatz
anathema
phlegmatic
matriculate
17. To run counter to - to show something as false
sinuous
belie
gesticulate
recidivism
18. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
insouciant
bathos
inveterate
dissipate
19. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
phantasm
bandy
sallow
gestalt
20. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
ignominious
adjure
obdurate
wont
21. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
timorous
abstinence
omniscient
zeitgeist
22. The mood or spirit of the times
mirthful
peregrination
mordant
zeitgeist
23. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
bowdlerize
veneer
garrulous
calumny
24. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
prowess
encomium
sui generis
assiduous
25. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
rout
propinquity
apocryphal
feckless
26. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
determinism
patina
flagellate
machination
27. Deception or trickery
chicanery
myopia
evanescent
saturnine
28. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
compunction
calumny
conflagration
anomie
29. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
flagellate
phantasm
lope
behemoth
30. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
viscosity
lope
vacuous
flagellate
31. Environment - surroundings
omnivorous
malapropism
bathos
milieu
32. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
evanescent
espy
apostasy
effete
33. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
assignation
bumptious
pregnant
zaftig
34. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
sturm and drang
veracious
noisome
inchoate
35. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
muckrake
reticent
phlegmatic
sangfroid
36. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
gerrymander
imbroglio
byzantine
remuneration
37. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
paradigm
saturnine
depredate
fauna
38. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
cataclysm
elan
depredate
malapropism
39. Fertile - productive - fruitful
lope
anomie
iniquitous
fecund
40. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
ancillary
cataclysm
intransigent
pregnant
41. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
lassitude
gird
byzantine
assiduous
42. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
alchemy
provenance
ennui
diurnal
43. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
cavil
hidebound
veracious
redoubtable
44. A creative work - musical composition
depredate
cogitate
opus
cortege
45. Overly sentimental
libation
mercurial
maudlin
savant
46. To make better - to ease or improve
prowess
ameliorate
ossify
chimerical
47. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
apogee
concomitant
bivouac
bathos
48. An apparition - phantom
leitmotif
decimate
abrogate
phantasm
49. One who adheres strictly to rules
obdurate
mirthful
onus
martinet
50. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
clout
patois
pluralism
fey