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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. Hot-tempered - cranky
garrulous
neophyte
irascible
machination
2. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
wizened
ethnocentric
phantasm
3. Turmoil
ersatz
viscosity
deleterious
sturm and drang
4. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
prowess
veracious
supercilious
bowdlerize
5. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
homeopathy
apoplexy
perquisite
vitriolic
6. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
placebo
perfunctory
pallid
7. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
sturm and drang
antipodal
endemic
milieu
8. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
effete
akimbo
piquant
juggernaut
9. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
cogitate
prowess
decimate
sturm and drang
10. To attack the integrity of something
umbrage
inveterate
impugn
abstruse
11. A drunken reveler or orgy
spelunker
bacchanal
onus
akimbo
12. Forest-like - wooded
sylvan
provenance
apocryphal
inveterate
13. Full-figured - plump
zaftig
perfunctory
punctilious
surreptitious
14. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
placebo
plebeian
fecund
15. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
munificent
tendentious
nihilism
16. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
quiescence
reticent
titular
palliate
17. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
secrete
oeuvre
patina
mercurial
18. Empty - lacking intelligence
chimerical
penury
vacuous
tendentious
19. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
impervious
recalcitrant
muckrake
deleterious
20. Bad breath
abstinence
anomie
somnolent
halitosis
21. A sudden outburst
machination
spate
comport
pallid
22. Slander - deliberate false statements
zaftig
gesticulate
calumny
profligate
23. Award or honor - high praise
pallid
desiccate
accolade
cabal
24. A system of natural healing
accolade
sycophant
vagary
homeopathy
25. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
akimbo
apogee
lassitude
bivouac
26. Generous
munificent
portent
prowess
truculent
27. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
doff
zeitgeist
muckrake
dissipate
28. Boldness - rashness - audacity
dossier
temerity
rout
sententious
29. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
endemic
diaspora
fetter
portent
30. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
munificent
abstruse
timorous
saturnine
31. A massive - unstoppable object
sallow
juggernaut
chicanery
imbroglio
32. Squalid - a slovenly woman
nirvana
dilettante
slatternly
mirthful
33. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
ameliorate
anomie
lope
dilettante
34. Heading - title - category
provenance
panacea
rubric
omnivorous
35. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
titular
rife
hoary
nepotism
36. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
nabob
remuneration
palliate
temporize
37. In title only
fey
titular
macerate
ossify
38. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
fauna
obdurate
privation
milieu
39. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
anomie
ambulatory
reticent
wastrel
40. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
sylvan
cavil
rife
onerous
41. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
ossify
brook
alchemy
interregnum
42. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
reprobate
panacea
perfunctory
saturnine
43. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
evanescent
ignominious
reprobate
44. 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
diaspora
tendentious
gainsay
striated
45. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
maudlin
besmirch
husbandry
mirthful
46. Able to walk or move about
ambulatory
supercilious
disquiet
feral
47. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
onerous
recidivism
placebo
sally
48. A temporary encampment
bivouac
onerous
myopia
mellifluous
49. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
privation
nascent
gerrymander
sagacious
50. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
ersatz
sylvan
histrionic
aegis