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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
:
sat
,
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. Native - belonging to a specific region
redoubtable
salubrious
nascent
endemic
2. A beginner - a novice
neophyte
fey
somnolent
perfunctory
3. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
provenance
effete
slatternly
panegyric
4. Common - vulgar - low class
plebeian
sylvan
accolade
anathema
5. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
husbandry
phantasm
anomie
6. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
doggerel
provenance
cataclysm
ethnocentric
7. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
verdant
bowdlerize
recondite
apostasy
8. Lending money at a high interest rate
usury
behemoth
fecund
placebo
9. Occurring during the day - happens every day
diurnal
iniquitous
adjure
mellifluous
10. To enroll - most particularly in college
assignation
compunction
matriculate
cortege
11. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
secrete
accouterments
puissance
remuneration
12. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
hoary
machination
fey
noisome
13. To behave
comport
cachet
encomium
contentious
14. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
propinquity
tony
doff
raffish
15. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
sangfroid
extirpate
profligate
bumptious
16. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
vacuous
byzantine
discomfit
hidebound
17. To smile foolishly
abrogate
saturnine
simper
piquant
18. All knowing - infinite awareness
muckrake
omniscient
dichotomy
redoubtable
19. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
sycophant
synergy
nirvana
hidebound
20. Covered with green plants - leafy
recalcitrant
peregrination
effete
verdant
21. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
lope
ameliorate
descry
sangfroid
22. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
cogitate
venerate
deleterious
extirpate
23. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
sallow
perfunctory
inchoate
apostasy
24. A gentle breeze
undulate
patina
castigate
zephyr
25. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
rubric
remuneration
insouciant
phlegmatic
26. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
espy
antipodal
rout
27. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
recondite
chary
undulate
temporize
28. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
cogitate
sangfroid
abstinence
libation
29. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
largess
ameliorate
obsequious
fusillade
30. One who adheres strictly to rules
niggardly
dissipate
martinet
munificent
31. Heading - title - category
cachet
rubric
chary
intransigent
32. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
facetious
vitriolic
savant
maudlin
33. Favorable to health
salubrious
draconian
secrete
comport
34. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
maudlin
miasma
sycophant
cachet
35. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
doggerel
recondite
impervious
scofflaw
36. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
oscillate
bon vivant
brook
privation
37. An apparition - phantom
contentious
phantasm
apoplexy
comport
38. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
obsequious
supercilious
patina
clout
39. To confuse - deceive
umbrage
discomfit
effete
onus
40. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
mirthful
determinism
anathema
machination
41. A eulogy or expression of high praise
largess
lassitude
rubric
encomium
42. An illegal act especially by a public official
venerate
adumbrate
malfeasance
punctilious
43. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
foment
exigent
iniquitous
evanescent
44. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
juggernaut
behemoth
sturm and drang
concomitant
45. Empty - lacking intelligence
phantasm
comport
vacuous
recondite
46. To tolerate - to put up with something
itinerant
brook
veracious
plebeian
47. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
stalwart
dissipate
obsequious
vicarious
48. State of rest or inactivity
malfeasance
putrefy
quiescence
halitosis
49. To distress - to mistreat
aggrieve
decimate
nepotism
striated
50. Next to last
bandy
penultimate
perspicacious
perquisite