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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. Wildly fanciful - absurd
chimerical
abeyance
mendacious
comport
2. Honesty - uprightness
sycophant
probity
officious
dossier
3. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
gamin
muckrake
dissipate
castigate
4. Forest-like - wooded
dilettante
shibboleth
evanescent
sylvan
5. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
implacable
penury
feral
temporize
6. To stir up - to incite
histrionic
levee
foment
propinquity
7. To deny - to speak or act against
saturnine
sagacious
gainsay
undulate
8. To wish for with envy
puissance
habeas corpus
covet
temporize
9. Environment - surroundings
mirthful
gerrymander
itinerant
milieu
10. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
rapprochement
juggernaut
libidinous
cataclysm
11. To deviate from the truth
vagary
cavil
extirpate
prevaricate
12. Evil - unjust
iniquitous
tendentious
sally
vitriolic
13. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
opprobrious
forswear
ennui
14. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
dilettante
ersatz
abscond
perfidious
15. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
obdurate
inveterate
cavil
phlegmatic
16. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
wastrel
perspicacious
erudite
officious
17. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
bumptious
rout
obdurate
bon vivant
18. Fearful - easily frightened
philistine
accouterments
timorous
sagacious
19. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
prowess
arbiter
largess
cogitate
20. A temporary suspension of activity
titular
syllogism
mirthful
abeyance
21. Winding - having many curves
sinuous
facetious
parsimonious
behemoth
22. One who adheres strictly to rules
patois
martinet
neophyte
libation
23. Sneaky - secret
descry
spate
surreptitious
nascent
24. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
surreptitious
descry
officious
discomfit
25. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
nonplus
anomie
feral
patina
26. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
apocryphal
cavil
protean
determinism
27. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
largess
encomium
doggerel
castigate
28. Having foresight
insouciant
somnolent
inveterate
prescient
29. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
sententious
ruminate
decimate
alacrity
30. Influence - a forceful blow
chary
clout
perorate
venerate
31. A beginner - a novice
raffish
vicarious
ruminate
neophyte
32. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
contentious
mordant
capricious
husbandry
33. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
patois
machination
doggerel
gamin
34. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
noisome
doff
apogee
puissance
35. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
surreptitious
nonplus
recondite
macerate
36. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
forswear
perspicacious
capricious
opprobrious
37. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
desiccate
lassitude
punctilious
bandy
38. A procession - a group of attendants
cortege
nihilism
fey
itinerant
39. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
extirpate
anathema
disquiet
belie
40. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
clout
temporize
debacle
41. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
castigate
gainsay
imbroglio
sangfroid
42. To weaken - to sap the strength
enervate
calumny
wastrel
moribund
43. A model or example
paradigm
nonplus
mellifluous
ascetic
44. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
prurient
tony
wastrel
adumbrate
45. To bewilder - to puzzle
ennui
ensconce
nonplus
supercilious
46. Marked with thin lines or grooves
comport
striated
assignation
prepossess
47. To rot
putrefy
espy
probity
perorate
48. Generous
penury
mirthful
libation
munificent
49. A file of documents - letters and records
dossier
abeyance
wizened
enervate
50. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
vitriolic
sui generis
verdant
matriculate