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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. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
panegyric
implacable
ambulatory
depredate
2. To dry out
dichotomy
desiccate
coterie
ignominious
3. Heading - title - category
saturnine
flagellate
rubric
omnivorous
4. Relating to dress or fashion
sartorial
perfunctory
draconian
capricious
5. Wise - shrewd
milieu
sagacious
umbrage
sallow
6. To confuse - deceive
munificent
propinquity
umbrage
discomfit
7. Forest-like - wooded
sylvan
surreptitious
viscosity
abstruse
8. Turmoil
sturm and drang
alacrity
savant
zeitgeist
9. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
intransigent
elliptical
hidebound
10. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
hoary
besmirch
muckrake
anathema
11. Bad breath
abstinence
patois
cabal
halitosis
12. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
noisome
ersatz
mendacious
belie
13. Harmful
concomitant
impugn
deleterious
forswear
14. An intimate group of people with a common interest
coterie
dichotomy
chary
itinerant
15. An expedition - wandering
levee
onus
quiescence
peregrination
16. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
petulant
obsequious
gamin
vainglorious
17. A model or example
insouciant
garrulous
paradigm
provenance
18. To attack the integrity of something
impugn
sine qua non
diaspora
mirthful
19. Able to walk or move about
perfidious
maudlin
cataclysm
ambulatory
20. Lacking color - wan
pallid
flagellate
milieu
stalwart
21. Disgraceful and dishonorable
probity
repartee
ignominious
doff
22. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
panacea
bon vivant
flagellate
irascible
23. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
decimate
rubric
penury
raffish
24. An illegal act especially by a public official
malfeasance
besmirch
piquant
ancillary
25. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
salubrious
umbrage
fey
circumlocution
26. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
rife
petulant
remuneration
sallow
27. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
philistine
bandy
sententious
28. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
trice
calumny
wizened
miasma
29. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
apoplexy
juggernaut
flagellate
acquit
30. Burden - blame - obligation
patois
repartee
onus
chicanery
31. Fearful - easily frightened
timorous
intransigent
gestalt
paradigm
32. The act of repeating an offense
putrefy
recidivism
implacable
dilettante
33. To invest with authority - to brace
assignation
timorous
gird
byzantine
34. Animals
fauna
apoplexy
umbrage
officious
35. Dishonest - deceitful
philistine
mendacious
veracious
probity
36. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
dossier
abeyance
rife
sinuous
37. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
vagary
histrionic
ensconce
38. A gentle breeze
zephyr
evanescent
shibboleth
penury
39. In title only
titular
recalcitrant
rarefied
obsequious
40. Advancing a point of view - biased
descry
veracious
nabob
tendentious
41. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
abrogate
fauna
imbroglio
provenance
42. State of rest or inactivity
lassitude
spelunker
quiescence
exemplar
43. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
viscosity
nirvana
dossier
scofflaw
44. A fake medication
recalcitrant
placebo
nabob
synergy
45. Hostile - aggressive - savage
bandy
truculent
descry
facetious
46. The mood or spirit of the times
determinism
elan
phlegmatic
zeitgeist
47. Pungent - charmingly provocative
wont
perorate
piquant
provenance
48. A large - disastrous fire
conflagration
evanescent
byzantine
adumbrate
49. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
covet
nepotism
inchoate
petulant
50. A procession - a group of attendants
somnolent
cortege
sylvan
doff