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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 quibble - to raise trivial objections
cavil
akimbo
sententious
prowess
2. Influence - a forceful blow
moribund
clout
stalwart
ennui
3. Sneaky - secret
surreptitious
ameliorate
viscosity
feral
4. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
feral
philistine
vacuous
nepotism
5. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
evanescent
sangfroid
sylvan
provenance
6. State of rest or inactivity
spate
paradigm
quiescence
profligate
7. To gesture - especially when speaking
adjure
vitriolic
niggardly
gesticulate
8. A wealthy - influential person
cavil
gestalt
provenance
nabob
9. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
alchemy
clout
repartee
syllogism
10. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
juggernaut
punctilious
chimerical
recalcitrant
11. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doff
lassitude
macerate
doggerel
12. Shriveled - withered
wizened
arbiter
bathos
wastrel
13. A remedy that cures everything
repartee
maudlin
panacea
fey
14. In title only
fauna
phlegmatic
titular
sinuous
15. Payment - recompense
remuneration
debacle
portent
dissipate
16. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
temporize
rout
puissance
maudlin
17. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
bandy
juggernaut
miasma
deleterious
18. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
endemic
hoary
prurient
dissipate
19. Facade - coating - outward appearance
ascetic
akimbo
placebo
veneer
20. A procession - a group of attendants
cortege
junta
hidebound
prurient
21. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
puissance
capricious
sartorial
vitriolic
22. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
matriculate
implacable
patina
zephyr
23. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
insouciant
perspicacious
exemplar
elliptical
24. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
vicarious
bon vivant
nascent
prescient
25. Something that is an essential condition of
punctilious
sine qua non
timorous
veneer
26. A sudden outburst
malapropism
spate
panacea
gerrymander
27. Dishonest - deceitful
tony
wont
husbandry
mendacious
28. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
alacrity
depredate
impervious
gird
29. All knowing - infinite awareness
vicarious
ruminate
rubric
omniscient
30. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
omniscient
profligate
bivouac
byzantine
31. Fertile - productive - fruitful
sylvan
dichotomy
vainglorious
fecund
32. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
dilettante
akimbo
toothsome
perfunctory
33. Award or honor - high praise
paradigm
prowess
accolade
contentious
34. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
nirvana
machination
omnivorous
assiduous
35. Uncompromising - stubborn
alacrity
pluralism
intransigent
veneer
36. To run at a steady - easy pace
remuneration
lope
flagellate
arbiter
37. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
fauna
trice
shibboleth
lope
38. To expose political misconduct
circumlocution
muckrake
reprobate
prescient
39. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
toothsome
macerate
wont
gerrymander
40. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
usury
apostasy
pregnant
malapropism
41. To tolerate - to put up with something
elan
brook
acquit
husbandry
42. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
gestalt
vacuous
abrogate
nirvana
43. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
garrulous
venerate
depredate
prurient
44. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
hidebound
vicarious
bumptious
nonplus
45. Talkative
garrulous
profligate
accouterments
feckless
46. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
husbandry
bon vivant
wont
wizened
47. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
abeyance
cachet
bowdlerize
gerrymander
48. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
oscillate
elan
ennui
49. Pungent - charmingly provocative
zeitgeist
mellifluous
piquant
ensconce
50. Drowsy - sleepy
juggernaut
somnolent
castigate
irascible