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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
libation
byzantine
saturnine
lope
2. Generous
savant
veracious
leitmotif
munificent
3. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
titular
stalwart
akimbo
halitosis
4. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
macerate
penury
pluralism
covet
5. Power - strength
mercurial
puissance
simper
titular
6. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
assignation
recidivism
lope
juggernaut
7. Fertile - productive - fruitful
fey
fecund
perspicacious
simper
8. Lacking color - wan
pallid
desiccate
erudite
bon vivant
9. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
assiduous
supercilious
nepotism
antipodal
10. To deny - to speak or act against
gainsay
gamin
scofflaw
descry
11. Dishonest - deceitful
facetious
bowdlerize
dossier
mendacious
12. A temporary suspension of activity
fetter
wizened
abeyance
clout
13. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
oeuvre
rapprochement
vagary
belie
14. A beginner - a novice
neophyte
mendacious
junta
sine qua non
15. Hot-tempered - cranky
garrulous
irascible
pluralism
recalcitrant
16. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
syllogism
ruminate
prepossess
belie
17. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
inchoate
castigate
compunction
somnolent
18. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
viscosity
perspicacious
pregnant
elan
19. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
sui generis
bowdlerize
debacle
mirthful
20. Having foresight
nirvana
intransigent
draconian
prescient
21. Next to last
penultimate
mordant
rubric
cataclysm
22. Shriveled - withered
penury
wizened
deleterious
fusillade
23. Accompanying - attending - going along with
garrulous
wont
concomitant
provenance
24. To confuse - deceive
discomfit
zaftig
maudlin
calumny
25. A fake medication
largess
placebo
officious
synergy
26. Lustful - lascivious
penury
libidinous
ethnocentric
scotch
27. A judge - one who decides
discomfit
plebeian
arbiter
compunction
28. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
toothsome
munificent
rubric
insouciant
29. State of rest or inactivity
quiescence
capricious
vacuous
deleterious
30. Heading - title - category
fusillade
exemplar
rubric
bivouac
31. An excellent model - a typical example
exemplar
supercilious
gesticulate
castigate
32. Wildly fanciful - absurd
impugn
halitosis
chimerical
vitriolic
33. Turmoil
adjure
noisome
tendentious
sturm and drang
34. Disgraceful and dishonorable
abeyance
ignominious
zeitgeist
gesticulate
35. Native - belonging to a specific region
discomfit
bacchanal
endemic
toothsome
36. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
encomium
cabal
hidebound
onus
37. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
recondite
extirpate
accolade
determinism
38. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
garrulous
concomitant
provenance
apostasy
39. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
capricious
recalcitrant
verdant
brook
40. To dry out
desiccate
endemic
secrete
habeas corpus
41. To deviate from the truth
supercilious
simper
prevaricate
phlegmatic
42. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
inveterate
pregnant
levee
impervious
43. Facade - coating - outward appearance
ribald
veneer
depredate
conflagration
44. To smile foolishly
saturnine
chimerical
determinism
simper
45. Subsidiary - subordinate
cortege
ancillary
sangfroid
omniscient
46. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
descry
saturnine
abscond
depredate
47. Award or honor - high praise
mellifluous
accolade
vainglorious
truculent
48. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
feral
gamin
mellifluous
49. To swing back and forth
obsequious
fecund
perorate
oscillate
50. Pungent - charmingly provocative
umbrage
chimerical
piquant
determinism