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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 cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
sturm and drang
prepossess
diaspora
piquant
2. Protection - patronage
redoubtable
perquisite
lope
aegis
3. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
sui generis
scotch
draconian
garrulous
4. Shriveled - withered
wizened
mirthful
abrogate
obdurate
5. Careful - cautious - wary
ameliorate
foment
paradigm
chary
6. Lustful - lascivious
libidinous
mercurial
ensconce
gird
7. Uncompromising - stubborn
diaspora
intransigent
halitosis
moribund
8. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
leitmotif
opprobrious
capricious
panegyric
9. Without money - penniless
impecunious
striated
covet
endemic
10. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
officious
stalwart
perfunctory
behemoth
11. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
largess
temporize
ambulatory
abstinence
12. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
peregrination
viscosity
abscond
13. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
prurient
behemoth
bumptious
doff
14. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
ennui
diaspora
elliptical
rife
15. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
determinism
privation
diaspora
coterie
16. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
sylvan
malapropism
raffish
adumbrate
17. A disaster or violent breakdown
secrete
debacle
perquisite
abrogate
18. Facade - coating - outward appearance
timorous
veneer
rarefied
gesticulate
19. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
decimate
conflagration
temporize
mirthful
20. A gentle breeze
garrulous
sangfroid
vainglorious
zephyr
21. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
cogitate
fusillade
histrionic
apocryphal
22. To give off - to conceal
determinism
implacable
secrete
profligate
23. A file of documents - letters and records
wont
slatternly
fey
dossier
24. Slander - deliberate false statements
apogee
garrulous
imbroglio
calumny
25. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
scotch
halitosis
onerous
supercilious
26. Truthful - honest
ersatz
profligate
veracious
acquit
27. An illegal act especially by a public official
brook
malfeasance
nirvana
tony
28. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
probity
dichotomy
toothsome
lope
29. All knowing - infinite awareness
omniscient
rout
lassitude
ameliorate
30. Covered with green plants - leafy
pallid
verdant
veneer
placebo
31. To kill or destroy a large part of
juggernaut
halitosis
decimate
vacuous
32. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
cogitate
besmirch
bandy
abstruse
33. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
synergy
husbandry
forswear
34. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
phantasm
cataclysm
gamin
ennui
35. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
bon vivant
reprobate
accolade
saturnine
36. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
prowess
habeas corpus
ascetic
gird
37. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
dossier
insouciant
bilious
scofflaw
38. Subsidiary - subordinate
secrete
propinquity
prurient
ancillary
39. Forest-like - wooded
sylvan
compunction
draconian
provenance
40. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
opprobrious
dossier
onerous
41. A massive - unstoppable object
juggernaut
patina
desiccate
irascible
42. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
simper
libidinous
assiduous
43. Wise - shrewd
endemic
sagacious
pluralism
officious
44. A sudden outburst
plebeian
zephyr
spate
circumlocution
45. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
facetious
accouterments
martinet
46. Extreme poverty
gamin
penury
desiccate
obsequious
47. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
assignation
undulate
calumny
saturnine
48. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
prowess
miasma
savant
simper
49. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
lope
noisome
veneer
paradigm
50. In title only
dichotomy
titular
obsequious
effete