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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. A large - disastrous fire
gainsay
onerous
oeuvre
conflagration
2. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
shibboleth
determinism
libation
malapropism
3. Truthful - honest
nepotism
alchemy
temerity
veracious
4. An illegal act especially by a public official
malfeasance
fecund
depredate
draconian
5. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
spelunker
zephyr
ennui
6. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
prevaricate
endemic
doff
reticent
7. To smile foolishly
accolade
calumny
simper
covet
8. Covered with green plants - leafy
verdant
fecund
sagacious
accolade
9. Facade - coating - outward appearance
prowess
draconian
slatternly
veneer
10. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
wont
alchemy
pallid
11. Hard to understand or grasp
nepotism
neophyte
abstruse
vitriolic
12. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
oeuvre
paradigm
deleterious
13. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
recondite
forswear
officious
abstinence
14. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
recalcitrant
wizened
quiescence
sartorial
15. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
flagellate
nirvana
besmirch
feckless
16. Award or honor - high praise
ambulatory
accolade
miasma
milieu
17. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
descry
usury
irascible
depredate
18. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
perspicacious
vicarious
ribald
erudite
19. Evil - unjust
bandy
iniquitous
milieu
petulant
20. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
slatternly
gerrymander
protean
21. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
prowess
nirvana
penury
contentious
22. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
itinerant
adjure
dichotomy
hidebound
23. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
miasma
peregrination
juggernaut
elan
24. Deception or trickery
abstruse
chicanery
leitmotif
phantasm
25. A remedy that cures everything
irascible
feckless
anathema
panacea
26. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
bon vivant
sturm and drang
sententious
scofflaw
27. A dominant or recurring theme
patina
secrete
leitmotif
pallid
28. Boldness - rashness - audacity
debacle
temerity
wizened
myopia
29. Fearful - easily frightened
sangfroid
timorous
salubrious
feckless
30. A beginner - a novice
effete
neophyte
scotch
husbandry
31. State of rest or inactivity
desiccate
sangfroid
quiescence
castigate
32. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
mellifluous
propinquity
perquisite
largess
33. To swing back and forth
adjure
nihilism
mellifluous
oscillate
34. Disgraceful and dishonorable
nascent
elliptical
dilettante
ignominious
35. An intimate group of people with a common interest
implacable
zeitgeist
coterie
puissance
36. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
akimbo
sui generis
ruminate
ersatz
37. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
probity
habeas corpus
lope
flagellate
38. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
circumlocution
interregnum
homeopathy
leitmotif
39. An apparition - phantom
apoplexy
savant
protean
phantasm
40. To wish for with envy
penultimate
compunction
covet
muckrake
41. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
undulate
contentious
bowdlerize
prevaricate
42. Oval - obscure in expression
punctilious
gerrymander
elliptical
munificent
43. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
libidinous
putrefy
inveterate
accouterments
44. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
besmirch
gesticulate
vicarious
mercurial
45. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
protean
acquit
sartorial
depredate
46. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
doff
covet
titular
prescient
47. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
diaspora
penultimate
reticent
ennui
48. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
hoary
opprobrious
brook
aegis
49. Occurring during the day - happens every day
flagellate
garrulous
covet
diurnal
50. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
wastrel
bumptious
ossify
phantasm