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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
spate
largess
stalwart
dulcet
2. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
propinquity
discomfit
aegis
3. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
forswear
alacrity
opprobrious
habeas corpus
4. Common - vulgar - low class
umbrage
prepossess
plebeian
mordant
5. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
akimbo
opus
gird
cortege
6. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
vainglorious
veneer
contentious
interregnum
7. Honesty - uprightness
toothsome
trice
probity
provenance
8. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
homeopathy
anathema
vicarious
reticent
9. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
belie
elliptical
largess
gamin
10. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
largess
prepossess
viscosity
scotch
11. Able to walk or move about
dulcet
ambulatory
putrefy
reprobate
12. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
miasma
lope
striated
dulcet
13. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
tony
endemic
remuneration
striated
14. Award or honor - high praise
insouciant
accolade
gamin
abstruse
15. Wildly fanciful - absurd
piquant
apocryphal
chimerical
anomie
16. Slander - deliberate false statements
punctilious
belie
calumny
venerate
17. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
machination
libidinous
prescient
18. A dominant or recurring theme
feral
leitmotif
oscillate
zeitgeist
19. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
cabal
sturm and drang
ossify
usury
20. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
moribund
libidinous
machination
assignation
21. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
vicarious
bilious
spelunker
mordant
22. Relating to dress or fashion
neophyte
petulant
sartorial
castigate
23. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
oeuvre
fetter
gainsay
omnivorous
24. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
bathos
fusillade
mellifluous
espy
25. Shriveled - withered
iniquitous
timorous
wizened
cortege
26. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
lassitude
recidivism
stalwart
27. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
insouciant
plebeian
fauna
oeuvre
28. To weaken - to sap the strength
recondite
piquant
officious
enervate
29. To put an end to
scotch
panegyric
circumlocution
fetter
30. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
chary
extirpate
ensconce
mercurial
31. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
erudite
debacle
elliptical
sinuous
32. All knowing - infinite awareness
feckless
calumny
omniscient
prowess
33. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
profligate
provenance
zephyr
espy
34. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
secrete
patina
perquisite
feral
35. To invest with authority - to brace
peregrination
bacchanal
oeuvre
gird
36. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
calumny
nepotism
profligate
temporize
37. To kill or destroy a large part of
discomfit
decimate
cabal
panegyric
38. Stingy
fauna
impugn
parsimonious
sartorial
39. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
dilettante
foment
ethnocentric
profligate
40. Squalid - a slovenly woman
encomium
sally
sallow
slatternly
41. 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
zeitgeist
diaspora
palliate
leitmotif
42. To swing back and forth
fetter
chary
syllogism
oscillate
43. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
redoubtable
onerous
dilettante
libation
44. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
rarefied
sui generis
plebeian
somnolent
45. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
remuneration
accouterments
phantasm
nascent
46. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
provenance
philistine
gamin
forswear
47. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
phlegmatic
philistine
saturnine
fey
48. A disaster or violent breakdown
debacle
inveterate
panegyric
conflagration
49. An apparition - phantom
clout
phantasm
circumlocution
apostasy
50. An inferior substitute
bandy
ersatz
mendacious
ribald
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