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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.
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. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
perorate
ossify
pregnant
apostasy
2. Award or honor - high praise
salubrious
tendentious
accolade
habeas corpus
3. Lustful - lascivious
rubric
leitmotif
sycophant
libidinous
4. To wish for with envy
covet
fey
gestalt
pluralism
5. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
concomitant
remuneration
cortege
histrionic
6. A fake medication
placebo
sangfroid
privation
impervious
7. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
extirpate
provenance
plebeian
bumptious
8. A re-establishment of good relations
peregrination
phantasm
exigent
rapprochement
9. To rot
forswear
milieu
lassitude
putrefy
10. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
fecund
pregnant
mellifluous
rarefied
11. Subsidiary - subordinate
scofflaw
doff
ancillary
prevaricate
12. A beginner - a novice
wastrel
neophyte
nirvana
pluralism
13. To smile foolishly
flagellate
verdant
garrulous
simper
14. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
perspicacious
patina
accouterments
lassitude
15. The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe - that existence is senseless or useless
chimerical
probity
nihilism
perorate
16. Covered with green plants - leafy
panegyric
wont
punctilious
verdant
17. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
bathos
ensconce
omniscient
reticent
18. Influence - a forceful blow
ruminate
clout
prurient
calumny
19. Without money - penniless
impecunious
officious
sui generis
belie
20. Being in a dying or decaying condition
fauna
clout
moribund
deleterious
21. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
cortege
tony
cavil
determinism
22. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
adjure
aggrieve
bandy
prowess
23. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
gerrymander
espy
interregnum
24. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
sui generis
prescient
behemoth
25. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
umbrage
ignominious
extirpate
supercilious
26. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
apoplexy
husbandry
extirpate
spate
27. A large - disastrous fire
perfidious
conflagration
omnivorous
apostasy
28. Nearness in place or time - kinship
temerity
protean
propinquity
panacea
29. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
penultimate
chary
adumbrate
malapropism
30. Generous
putrefy
munificent
deleterious
stalwart
31. A model or example
feral
gird
abstinence
paradigm
32. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
slatternly
enervate
bilious
disquiet
33. Merry - gleeful
pallid
mirthful
sententious
cortege
34. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
capricious
inchoate
macerate
spelunker
35. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
cachet
sagacious
erudite
sui generis
36. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
perorate
prurient
dissipate
wizened
37. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
perspicacious
husbandry
vitriolic
impervious
38. Boldness - rashness - audacity
temerity
interregnum
redoubtable
doggerel
39. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
pluralism
shibboleth
myopia
privation
40. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
vainglorious
levee
truculent
bilious
41. To behave
feckless
spelunker
comport
sylvan
42. Protection - patronage
feral
itinerant
gainsay
aegis
43. To deviate from the truth
anathema
abstinence
simper
prevaricate
44. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
ribald
undulate
perfunctory
libation
45. Extreme poverty
dossier
penury
capricious
lope
46. To dry out
philistine
desiccate
omniscient
tony
47. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
oeuvre
imbroglio
feral
covet
48. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
matriculate
shibboleth
adjure
acquit
49. To weaken - to sap the strength
implacable
flagellate
compunction
enervate
50. Deception or trickery
histrionic
rarefied
penultimate
chicanery