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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. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
diurnal
alchemy
alacrity
saturnine
2. A remedy that cures everything
puissance
shibboleth
panacea
sangfroid
3. Fearful - easily frightened
gestalt
dossier
timorous
akimbo
4. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
zeitgeist
raffish
garrulous
undulate
5. To swing back and forth
secrete
oscillate
onus
piquant
6. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
accouterments
brook
sally
patois
7. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
ersatz
disquiet
profligate
sangfroid
8. To impede - restrain - hamper
martinet
fetter
calumny
dilettante
9. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
apostasy
machination
repartee
garrulous
10. Lending money at a high interest rate
repartee
usury
bacchanal
sine qua non
11. A model or example
paradigm
abeyance
perfunctory
garrulous
12. To muse upon
sangfroid
ruminate
maudlin
cachet
13. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
stalwart
dulcet
doff
implacable
14. Boldness - rashness - audacity
phantasm
gerrymander
temerity
abscond
15. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
assignation
doggerel
capricious
cabal
16. A dominant or recurring theme
leitmotif
adjure
opus
interregnum
17. Dishonest - deceitful
spelunker
mendacious
nepotism
cogitate
18. Squalid - a slovenly woman
fauna
slatternly
libidinous
prescient
19. A re-establishment of good relations
rapprochement
behemoth
debacle
onus
20. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
alacrity
phlegmatic
mellifluous
viscosity
21. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
rife
bandy
apostasy
husbandry
22. Lacking color - wan
pallid
ameliorate
noisome
paradigm
23. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
phlegmatic
zeitgeist
nirvana
ascetic
24. Being in a dying or decaying condition
moribund
feckless
redoubtable
apocryphal
25. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
gerrymander
panegyric
malapropism
abeyance
26. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
cataclysm
gerrymander
rife
hoary
27. A cave explorer
truculent
spelunker
surreptitious
verdant
28. A temporary encampment
bivouac
histrionic
toothsome
espy
29. Subsidiary - subordinate
perfunctory
ruminate
descry
ancillary
30. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
arbiter
venerate
anomie
doff
31. A moment - a short period of time
syllogism
trice
rapprochement
desiccate
32. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
garrulous
macerate
gestalt
perspicacious
33. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
levee
nihilism
nepotism
onerous
34. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
assignation
machination
sartorial
35. Custom - habit
pregnant
wont
flagellate
interregnum
36. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
stalwart
nepotism
recalcitrant
circumlocution
37. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
reprobate
abstinence
adumbrate
sylvan
38. Empty - lacking intelligence
profligate
pallid
placebo
vacuous
39. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
punctilious
feral
temporize
husbandry
40. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
chary
martinet
sui generis
depredate
41. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
hidebound
privation
homeopathy
facetious
42. A beginner - a novice
impervious
chicanery
neophyte
maudlin
43. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
abscond
synergy
inveterate
supercilious
44. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
apocryphal
titular
raffish
secrete
45. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
alacrity
erudite
pluralism
prowess
46. Stingy - small in a mean way
myopia
conflagration
accolade
niggardly
47. Harmful
vitriolic
deleterious
saturnine
abrogate
48. An inferior substitute
accouterments
ersatz
gird
gerrymander
49. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
surreptitious
panegyric
cabal
patois
50. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
macerate
veracious
chicanery
cortege