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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.
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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. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
dulcet
officious
feral
interregnum
2. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
wastrel
accolade
vitriolic
doggerel
3. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
ribald
feckless
miasma
vacuous
4. Lustful - lascivious
imbroglio
libidinous
inveterate
implacable
5. To attack the integrity of something
brook
impugn
gerrymander
flagellate
6. A wealthy - influential person
irascible
flagellate
bathos
nabob
7. Burden - blame - obligation
saturnine
prowess
parsimonious
onus
8. In title only
titular
adumbrate
bumptious
mendacious
9. Heading - title - category
calumny
rubric
rapprochement
disquiet
10. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
erudite
zephyr
ameliorate
sycophant
11. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
redoubtable
circumlocution
ancillary
12. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
penultimate
largess
bon vivant
accouterments
13. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
apostasy
diaspora
encomium
cataclysm
14. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
recalcitrant
ethnocentric
enervate
determinism
15. To dry out
facetious
draconian
probity
desiccate
16. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
facetious
apostasy
panegyric
besmirch
17. Generous
panegyric
ruminate
spate
munificent
18. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
panegyric
vitriolic
vicarious
ethnocentric
19. A creative work - musical composition
noisome
opus
leitmotif
apocryphal
20. A fake medication
comport
placebo
castigate
provenance
21. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
malapropism
prescient
behemoth
descry
22. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
libation
interregnum
bon vivant
apoplexy
23. A temporary encampment
nonplus
bivouac
chicanery
cabal
24. Able to walk or move about
ambulatory
puissance
munificent
vagary
25. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
levee
gamin
remuneration
malapropism
26. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
libidinous
patois
husbandry
redoubtable
27. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
mordant
penury
discomfit
diurnal
28. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
castigate
facetious
gerrymander
alacrity
29. 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
omnivorous
omniscient
diaspora
viscosity
30. Custom - habit
panacea
wont
undulate
onerous
31. Native - belonging to a specific region
abrogate
zeitgeist
libation
endemic
32. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
portent
putrefy
patois
sine qua non
33. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
muckrake
forswear
spate
34. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
perfidious
coterie
onerous
chary
35. Without money - penniless
impecunious
effete
neophyte
comport
36. To deny - to speak or act against
nonplus
gainsay
bowdlerize
nabob
37. One who adheres strictly to rules
martinet
compunction
spelunker
lope
38. Whim - an unpredictable action
accolade
vagary
castigate
sallow
39. An intimate group of people with a common interest
munificent
coterie
malfeasance
mordant
40. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
mordant
histrionic
coterie
debacle
41. Animals
compunction
comport
fauna
ennui
42. An inferior substitute
zeitgeist
ersatz
prescient
opus
43. An excellent model - a typical example
exemplar
depredate
prepossess
phlegmatic
44. Having foresight
prescient
puissance
surreptitious
alchemy
45. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
chary
patina
tony
46. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
fusillade
leitmotif
obsequious
brook
47. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
reticent
habeas corpus
espy
lassitude
48. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
petulant
abeyance
acquit
omniscient
49. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
perspicacious
feral
leitmotif
undulate
50. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
petulant
imbroglio
recondite
placebo