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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. To give off - to conceal
husbandry
propinquity
secrete
anomie
2. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
halitosis
intransigent
bathos
muckrake
3. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
intransigent
omnivorous
prepossess
ethnocentric
4. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
exemplar
compunction
depredate
abeyance
5. Empty - lacking intelligence
husbandry
stalwart
opus
vacuous
6. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
bowdlerize
wont
supercilious
acquit
7. A remedy that cures everything
fey
panacea
umbrage
evanescent
8. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
recondite
abstruse
raffish
apogee
9. To stir up - to incite
foment
undulate
diaspora
fusillade
10. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
maudlin
flagellate
ancillary
largess
11. Retract - renounce or recant
sylvan
vicarious
parsimonious
forswear
12. Forest-like - wooded
sylvan
ruminate
undulate
conflagration
13. A drunken reveler or orgy
salubrious
dossier
descry
bacchanal
14. In title only
apogee
brook
rarefied
titular
15. Payment - recompense
remuneration
impervious
paradigm
flagellate
16. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
sententious
interregnum
pluralism
ignominious
17. Careful - cautious - wary
prepossess
mercurial
panacea
chary
18. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
recondite
philistine
iniquitous
determinism
19. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
spelunker
abscond
bowdlerize
lope
20. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
omniscient
milieu
recalcitrant
21. Bad breath
halitosis
savant
phantasm
cogitate
22. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
penury
enervate
prescient
sycophant
23. Severe - exceedingly harsh
iniquitous
vainglorious
nirvana
draconian
24. Faithless - untrustworthy
bivouac
obdurate
perfidious
ensconce
25. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
nihilism
oeuvre
impecunious
nirvana
26. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
chary
leitmotif
bon vivant
perfidious
27. To tolerate - to put up with something
brook
elliptical
accouterments
rubric
28. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
parsimonious
comport
philistine
toothsome
29. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
reticent
apostasy
chary
milieu
30. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
insouciant
perfunctory
palliate
determinism
31. An expedition - wandering
wont
mercurial
peregrination
panegyric
32. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
accolade
clout
sycophant
33. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
bowdlerize
gainsay
quiescence
husbandry
34. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
junta
viscosity
spelunker
phantasm
35. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
inchoate
recondite
apoplexy
opus
36. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
putrefy
deleterious
fusillade
apoplexy
37. To make better - to ease or improve
ameliorate
apocryphal
slatternly
ascetic
38. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
deleterious
venerate
slatternly
39. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
juggernaut
undulate
prowess
prepossess
40. To weaken - to sap the strength
prowess
alchemy
enervate
bivouac
41. Truthful - honest
toothsome
veracious
temporize
fauna
42. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
doff
recidivism
stalwart
inchoate
43. Shriveled - withered
endemic
wizened
contentious
apocryphal
44. To invest with authority - to brace
gird
perfidious
rout
calumny
45. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
privation
contentious
prevaricate
dilettante
46. A file of documents - letters and records
sallow
umbrage
muckrake
dossier
47. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
apoplexy
gerrymander
saturnine
castigate
48. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
striated
remuneration
ensconce
abstruse
49. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
profligate
slatternly
levee
ethnocentric
50. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
apogee
behemoth
akimbo
scofflaw