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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. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
patois
zeitgeist
dulcet
hoary
2. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
fey
juggernaut
akimbo
itinerant
3. A gentle breeze
zephyr
deleterious
stalwart
prurient
4. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
exemplar
usury
muckrake
5. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
portent
repartee
conflagration
elan
6. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
largess
sallow
prowess
oscillate
7. Uncompromising - stubborn
ascetic
savant
intransigent
prevaricate
8. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
noisome
pluralism
junta
9. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
penury
pluralism
milieu
gamin
10. Hostile - aggressive - savage
pluralism
recondite
truculent
moribund
11. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
martinet
veracious
determinism
nirvana
12. To confuse - deceive
spate
contentious
palliate
discomfit
13. Deception or trickery
chicanery
impecunious
puissance
endemic
14. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
sycophant
prevaricate
gerrymander
ascetic
15. Boastful - pompous
shibboleth
zephyr
vainglorious
anomie
16. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
veneer
encomium
ersatz
17. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
concomitant
vacuous
tony
mercurial
18. Turmoil
neophyte
sturm and drang
truculent
sycophant
19. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
exigent
juggernaut
puissance
punctilious
20. Boldness - rashness - audacity
wastrel
temerity
wont
putrefy
21. Winding - having many curves
perfunctory
sinuous
abscond
plebeian
22. To kill or destroy a large part of
libidinous
decimate
peregrination
capricious
23. To make uneasy
ethnocentric
putrefy
abeyance
disquiet
24. A moment - a short period of time
zephyr
trice
pluralism
fauna
25. Honesty - uprightness
rapprochement
probity
tony
prurient
26. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
decimate
mordant
viscosity
nihilism
27. Slander - deliberate false statements
calumny
protean
perspicacious
dilettante
28. Pungent - charmingly provocative
cogitate
piquant
fetter
decimate
29. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
remuneration
niggardly
conflagration
prowess
30. Harmful
rout
abstinence
lope
deleterious
31. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
viscosity
debacle
encomium
determinism
32. To run at a steady - easy pace
malapropism
sine qua non
timorous
lope
33. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
ossify
ascetic
miasma
nirvana
34. To bewilder - to puzzle
sine qua non
doggerel
nonplus
apocryphal
35. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
compunction
habeas corpus
juggernaut
perorate
36. Dishonest - deceitful
ambulatory
insouciant
mendacious
dilettante
37. Fertile - productive - fruitful
akimbo
nirvana
fecund
sangfroid
38. Hard to understand or grasp
antipodal
surreptitious
abstruse
zeitgeist
39. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
profligate
machination
rapprochement
vitriolic
40. Marked with thin lines or grooves
veracious
fusillade
somnolent
striated
41. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
intransigent
sylvan
mirthful
perquisite
42. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
imbroglio
pluralism
penultimate
libation
43. Fearful - easily frightened
provenance
timorous
dilettante
forswear
44. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
diurnal
bacchanal
raffish
phantasm
45. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
bilious
phantasm
omniscient
vagary
46. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
redoubtable
rout
titular
recondite
47. An intimate group of people with a common interest
salubrious
sally
perorate
coterie
48. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
sine qua non
impugn
ribald
gerrymander
49. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
syllogism
mellifluous
rarefied
gird
50. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
reprobate
sententious
zeitgeist
mordant