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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.
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. Payment - recompense
ancillary
secrete
zaftig
remuneration
2. To impede - restrain - hamper
parsimonious
prepossess
elliptical
fetter
3. Heading - title - category
arbiter
chimerical
rubric
vacuous
4. Shriveled - withered
wizened
contentious
apostasy
lope
5. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
apostasy
ignominious
myopia
calumny
6. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
behemoth
ruminate
reticent
pallid
7. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
surreptitious
fetter
wastrel
officious
8. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
ennui
veracious
mirthful
desiccate
9. Animals
trice
enervate
fauna
ascetic
10. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
dulcet
histrionic
libidinous
debacle
11. To wish for with envy
matriculate
covet
plebeian
portent
12. Without money - penniless
impecunious
vainglorious
matriculate
accouterments
13. An expedition - wandering
titular
clout
cachet
peregrination
14. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
panacea
paradigm
accouterments
opprobrious
15. Vulgar or indecent language
ribald
sycophant
penury
prepossess
16. Urgent - demands prompt action
exigent
apostasy
profligate
circumlocution
17. Stubborn
sagacious
temporize
obdurate
repartee
18. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
reticent
rout
histrionic
malapropism
19. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
opus
fetter
hidebound
comport
20. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
ruminate
opus
libation
vagary
21. Sneaky - secret
sui generis
supercilious
surreptitious
titular
22. A fake medication
placebo
erudite
homeopathy
anomie
23. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
perfunctory
zeitgeist
sententious
discomfit
24. A wealthy - influential person
nabob
plebeian
usury
cortege
25. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
veracious
rout
besmirch
levee
26. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
shibboleth
spate
scofflaw
patois
27. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
prepossess
sartorial
omniscient
gerrymander
28. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
cavil
veracious
imbroglio
29. To make better - to ease or improve
reprobate
ameliorate
synergy
coterie
30. Being in a dying or decaying condition
assiduous
moribund
impugn
cataclysm
31. Covered with green plants - leafy
patois
verdant
ersatz
simper
32. Bad breath
halitosis
feckless
dulcet
sally
33. Slander - deliberate false statements
vicarious
surreptitious
officious
calumny
34. Next to last
sangfroid
niggardly
penultimate
titular
35. To give off - to conceal
abrogate
savant
adjure
secrete
36. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
concomitant
raffish
endemic
effete
37. A temporary encampment
trice
imbroglio
bivouac
petulant
38. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
veracious
bilious
viscosity
penultimate
39. A dominant or recurring theme
panacea
leitmotif
draconian
belie
40. Lustful - lascivious
pregnant
elan
libidinous
ensconce
41. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
sine qua non
pluralism
umbrage
syllogism
42. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
bivouac
miasma
shibboleth
gird
43. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
vagary
forswear
endemic
dilettante
44. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
slatternly
hoary
maudlin
lope
45. A gentle breeze
zephyr
assiduous
cavil
secrete
46. Boastful - pompous
inchoate
probity
vainglorious
abstinence
47. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
nonplus
rife
obsequious
evanescent
48. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
feral
truculent
ruminate
cataclysm
49. To put an end to
oscillate
abstinence
wastrel
scotch
50. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
husbandry
usury
sycophant
sui generis