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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
repartee
portent
hoary
2. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
dissipate
saturnine
flagellate
ribald
3. Facade - coating - outward appearance
circumlocution
histrionic
veneer
synergy
4. To smile foolishly
supercilious
temerity
simper
descry
5. To rot
inchoate
desiccate
putrefy
insouciant
6. To wish for with envy
besmirch
recondite
covet
repartee
7. Drowsy - sleepy
quiescence
remuneration
somnolent
zephyr
8. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
assignation
inchoate
forswear
abrogate
9. Marked with thin lines or grooves
sycophant
bacchanal
perquisite
striated
10. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
officious
anathema
facetious
inveterate
11. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
shibboleth
mercurial
reticent
bowdlerize
12. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
maudlin
scotch
contentious
piquant
13. Fearful - easily frightened
apoplexy
timorous
doggerel
anathema
14. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
gestalt
panegyric
cataclysm
husbandry
15. A temporary encampment
scotch
halitosis
bivouac
sententious
16. To honor - to worship - to respect
veneer
venerate
syllogism
scotch
17. Animals
fauna
veracious
omnivorous
dissipate
18. A massive - unstoppable object
peregrination
assiduous
interregnum
juggernaut
19. To tolerate - to put up with something
fey
espy
brook
conflagration
20. Division into two often contradictory parts
bilious
dichotomy
cavil
comport
21. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
husbandry
irascible
raffish
provenance
22. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
omnivorous
sturm and drang
verdant
behemoth
23. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
wastrel
veneer
diaspora
feckless
24. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
recidivism
adumbrate
saturnine
mercurial
25. Retract - renounce or recant
hoary
cataclysm
disquiet
forswear
26. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
bandy
apogee
nascent
sinuous
27. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
quiescence
halitosis
maudlin
espy
28. Custom - habit
wont
apostasy
punctilious
homeopathy
29. To confuse - deceive
peregrination
discomfit
libation
draconian
30. Turmoil
vitriolic
extirpate
sui generis
sturm and drang
31. Fertile - productive - fruitful
martinet
itinerant
histrionic
fecund
32. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
feral
cortege
apocryphal
mordant
33. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
impugn
depredate
insouciant
secrete
34. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
impugn
apogee
imbroglio
accouterments
35. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
apostasy
phantasm
punctilious
fusillade
36. To give off - to conceal
secrete
elan
oscillate
moribund
37. To swing back and forth
ersatz
oscillate
implacable
raffish
38. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
synergy
feral
doggerel
syllogism
39. Honesty - uprightness
sententious
alacrity
probity
secrete
40. Boldness - rashness - audacity
libation
temerity
ensconce
concomitant
41. Squalid - a slovenly woman
simper
cogitate
slatternly
rout
42. Hot-tempered - cranky
brook
ethnocentric
obdurate
irascible
43. Influence - a forceful blow
nabob
ossify
clout
abeyance
44. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
junta
fauna
compunction
vicarious
45. Faithless - untrustworthy
scotch
wastrel
fauna
perfidious
46. Forest-like - wooded
sylvan
sententious
diaspora
akimbo
47. Talkative
peregrination
temporize
prowess
garrulous
48. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
shibboleth
philistine
synergy
prevaricate
49. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
besmirch
iniquitous
bilious
lassitude
50. A disaster or violent breakdown
cortege
antipodal
propinquity
debacle