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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. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
mendacious
concomitant
portent
chary
2. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
bivouac
gainsay
sententious
saturnine
3. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
rife
temporize
akimbo
libation
4. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
anathema
oeuvre
gestalt
compunction
5. To smile foolishly
dulcet
shibboleth
rubric
simper
6. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
zeitgeist
wastrel
viscosity
mordant
7. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
anathema
hoary
recondite
parsimonious
8. Careful - cautious - wary
officious
punctilious
imbroglio
chary
9. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
scofflaw
pluralism
undulate
vagary
10. Hard to understand or grasp
abstruse
paradigm
forswear
doff
11. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
rapprochement
ignominious
opprobrious
syllogism
12. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
mellifluous
cataclysm
disquiet
placebo
13. Hot-tempered - cranky
irascible
aegis
facetious
panacea
14. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
quiescence
putrefy
ameliorate
libation
15. Drowsy - sleepy
somnolent
nabob
juggernaut
omnivorous
16. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
apogee
opprobrious
tony
17. A temporary suspension of activity
scotch
abeyance
disquiet
abrogate
18. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
dossier
adjure
abstinence
rapprochement
19. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
effete
akimbo
disquiet
prevaricate
20. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
truculent
aggrieve
panacea
macerate
21. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
undulate
slatternly
reprobate
dulcet
22. Environment - surroundings
hoary
abeyance
milieu
obdurate
23. A disaster or violent breakdown
dichotomy
debacle
gestalt
determinism
24. A judge - one who decides
inchoate
arbiter
matriculate
contentious
25. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
remuneration
patina
privation
maudlin
26. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
wizened
largess
intransigent
ensconce
27. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
garrulous
timorous
brook
evanescent
28. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
impervious
nabob
sally
fetter
29. To deviate from the truth
prevaricate
fey
provenance
bacchanal
30. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
prowess
oeuvre
homeopathy
quiescence
31. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
matriculate
provenance
pallid
ethnocentric
32. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
brook
perfidious
bowdlerize
sui generis
33. Next to last
calumny
dichotomy
penultimate
impecunious
34. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
rout
undulate
apocryphal
ethnocentric
35. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
reprobate
inveterate
anomie
assiduous
36. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
ennui
largess
sylvan
perfunctory
37. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
wont
venerate
onerous
gamin
38. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
propinquity
covet
halitosis
castigate
39. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
penultimate
contentious
perspicacious
sally
40. Honesty - uprightness
niggardly
ignominious
probity
oeuvre
41. To distress - to mistreat
chimerical
aggrieve
castigate
slatternly
42. An excellent model - a typical example
prepossess
exemplar
protean
calumny
43. Squalid - a slovenly woman
brook
sinuous
accouterments
slatternly
44. To deny - to speak or act against
surreptitious
panegyric
chicanery
gainsay
45. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
ossify
insouciant
apoplexy
alchemy
46. Fertile - productive - fruitful
hidebound
dissipate
fecund
bacchanal
47. Hardworking - busy - diligent
assiduous
flagellate
scotch
iniquitous
48. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
nirvana
officious
reprobate
phlegmatic
49. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
abstruse
hidebound
flagellate
sagacious
50. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
stalwart
effete
apostasy
perspicacious