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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
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english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Merry - gleeful
redoubtable
gamin
mirthful
leitmotif
2. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
stalwart
apostasy
bon vivant
effete
3. Stubborn
obdurate
elliptical
adjure
pallid
4. Marked with thin lines or grooves
striated
descry
obsequious
fey
5. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
vainglorious
privation
apostasy
6. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
zeitgeist
akimbo
alacrity
imbroglio
7. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
sententious
brook
feckless
ethnocentric
8. Lacking color - wan
pallid
secrete
patina
sagacious
9. Shriveled - withered
acquit
munificent
wizened
vainglorious
10. To put an end to
habeas corpus
clout
juggernaut
scotch
11. Talkative
garrulous
alacrity
mendacious
peregrination
12. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
vicarious
cavil
arbiter
facetious
13. In title only
ambulatory
neophyte
usury
titular
14. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
ascetic
cataclysm
aegis
junta
15. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
extirpate
comport
vitriolic
16. Squalid - a slovenly woman
slatternly
recalcitrant
dissipate
bumptious
17. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
fecund
mordant
surreptitious
onerous
18. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
punctilious
undulate
deleterious
niggardly
19. To run at a steady - easy pace
forswear
aggrieve
lope
aegis
20. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
halitosis
punctilious
junta
dissipate
21. Having foresight
prescient
omniscient
somnolent
inchoate
22. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
muckrake
remuneration
conflagration
elan
23. A massive - unstoppable object
spate
ennui
juggernaut
placebo
24. Pungent - charmingly provocative
antipodal
circumlocution
ennui
piquant
25. A dominant or recurring theme
chary
apocryphal
leitmotif
castigate
26. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
mercurial
apocryphal
doff
sententious
27. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
raffish
itinerant
anathema
temerity
28. Uncompromising - stubborn
leitmotif
dilettante
behemoth
intransigent
29. A remedy that cures everything
nascent
impecunious
panacea
obsequious
30. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
circumlocution
quiescence
rout
protean
31. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
sui generis
prurient
alacrity
reprobate
32. To make better - to ease or improve
nabob
fecund
ameliorate
cachet
33. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
leitmotif
panegyric
circumlocution
dichotomy
34. A wealthy - influential person
akimbo
plebeian
nabob
decimate
35. A procession - a group of attendants
palliate
iniquitous
ribald
cortege
36. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
ennui
phlegmatic
mercurial
perquisite
37. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
prowess
abrogate
flagellate
redoubtable
38. A judge - one who decides
arbiter
piquant
raffish
rarefied
39. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
piquant
usury
sally
40. Vulgar or indecent language
maudlin
ribald
nihilism
sally
41. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
implacable
phlegmatic
assignation
munificent
42. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
philistine
gird
sententious
bon vivant
43. A system of natural healing
sylvan
homeopathy
depredate
vainglorious
44. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
vacuous
forswear
dulcet
abstinence
45. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
perfidious
dissipate
opprobrious
conflagration
46. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
niggardly
draconian
intransigent
inveterate
47. Hard to understand or grasp
bacchanal
cogitate
abstruse
philistine
48. An inferior substitute
cortege
protean
coterie
ersatz
49. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
usury
elan
histrionic
50. A temporary encampment
cataclysm
arbiter
scofflaw
bivouac