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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. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
zephyr
prowess
enervate
deleterious
2. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
tendentious
onerous
miasma
gainsay
3. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
fusillade
patina
bacchanal
sui generis
4. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
umbrage
putrefy
bumptious
recondite
5. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
opus
vicarious
sui generis
privation
6. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
nabob
adumbrate
abscond
alacrity
7. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
opus
striated
prevaricate
besmirch
8. Payment - recompense
reprobate
remuneration
besmirch
diurnal
9. A moment - a short period of time
vicarious
junta
trice
sinuous
10. A re-establishment of good relations
nepotism
rapprochement
umbrage
myopia
11. Whim - an unpredictable action
impecunious
vagary
encomium
simper
12. Severe - exceedingly harsh
imbroglio
sally
malapropism
draconian
13. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
decimate
rarefied
bilious
sinuous
14. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
temporize
ambulatory
antipodal
portent
15. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
anomie
provenance
perfidious
comport
16. Protection - patronage
oscillate
piquant
aegis
cataclysm
17. To bewilder - to puzzle
spelunker
nonplus
pallid
mordant
18. An illegal act especially by a public official
tendentious
onerous
malfeasance
encomium
19. Forest-like - wooded
perorate
sylvan
wont
remuneration
20. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
synergy
effete
opus
parsimonious
21. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
mercurial
tendentious
obdurate
chimerical
22. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
munificent
husbandry
bathos
reprobate
23. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
nihilism
effete
perfunctory
punctilious
24. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
recondite
prescient
lope
viscosity
25. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
reticent
imbroglio
cogitate
malfeasance
26. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
ruminate
saturnine
flagellate
chary
27. Stingy - small in a mean way
libation
veneer
apogee
niggardly
28. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
ancillary
evanescent
abstinence
compunction
29. An apparition - phantom
scotch
savant
phantasm
abstruse
30. A large - disastrous fire
mendacious
wizened
bowdlerize
conflagration
31. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
juggernaut
apostasy
sallow
oeuvre
32. Displeasure or resentment - shade
inchoate
machination
bacchanal
umbrage
33. A massive - unstoppable object
juggernaut
rapprochement
adjure
trice
34. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
cortege
belie
aegis
implacable
35. Custom - habit
rapprochement
wont
akimbo
clout
36. To honor - to worship - to respect
inveterate
salubrious
venerate
recalcitrant
37. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
exigent
bumptious
recalcitrant
onus
38. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
profligate
gestalt
nepotism
habeas corpus
39. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
dilettante
perfidious
libation
foment
40. Uncompromising - stubborn
contentious
noisome
intransigent
bon vivant
41. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
bacchanal
bandy
simper
42. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
veneer
patina
machination
discomfit
43. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
hidebound
protean
elliptical
arbiter
44. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
endemic
putrefy
ennui
45. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
impervious
capricious
foment
dulcet
46. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
verdant
apocryphal
opprobrious
rarefied
47. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
phlegmatic
sententious
repartee
rubric
48. Occurring during the day - happens every day
diurnal
chary
apoplexy
malapropism
49. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
feral
munificent
dissipate
fetter
50. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
histrionic
zaftig
imbroglio
bowdlerize