SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
SAT Word Power Harder
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
bathos
myopia
sine qua non
placebo
2. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
pallid
rarefied
reticent
neophyte
3. Talkative
obdurate
redoubtable
garrulous
bandy
4. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
interregnum
alacrity
lassitude
gesticulate
5. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
vitriolic
neophyte
mellifluous
gamin
6. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
fauna
prurient
leitmotif
chimerical
7. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
bowdlerize
pregnant
martinet
neophyte
8. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
gamin
ambulatory
abstinence
panegyric
9. A re-establishment of good relations
accolade
ethnocentric
anomie
rapprochement
10. A moment - a short period of time
nihilism
trice
omnivorous
surreptitious
11. Forest-like - wooded
vacuous
peregrination
sine qua non
sylvan
12. Nearness in place or time - kinship
veracious
gamin
arbiter
propinquity
13. Stingy
parsimonious
undulate
halitosis
determinism
14. An apparition - phantom
redoubtable
phantasm
leitmotif
matriculate
15. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
spelunker
effete
perspicacious
peregrination
16. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
verdant
moribund
inchoate
ancillary
17. A fake medication
compunction
placebo
trice
redoubtable
18. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
cataclysm
ossify
encomium
elliptical
19. Award or honor - high praise
ennui
feral
accolade
compunction
20. To rot
putrefy
placebo
philistine
anomie
21. Slander - deliberate false statements
panegyric
recalcitrant
calumny
opus
22. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
simper
levee
prepossess
myopia
23. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
perspicacious
secrete
repartee
plebeian
24. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
fey
prowess
vicarious
gesticulate
25. Merry - gleeful
privation
draconian
belie
mirthful
26. Having foresight
covet
diurnal
prescient
miasma
27. Influence - a forceful blow
clout
gerrymander
perfunctory
diurnal
28. One who is continually breaking the law
matriculate
scofflaw
redoubtable
ameliorate
29. Urgent - demands prompt action
exigent
veracious
placebo
foment
30. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
cachet
perspicacious
mendacious
diaspora
31. Harmful
palliate
iniquitous
deleterious
leitmotif
32. One who adheres strictly to rules
bivouac
chary
martinet
impugn
33. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
omnivorous
sallow
apocryphal
chary
34. Subsidiary - subordinate
apoplexy
munificent
cabal
ancillary
35. To impede - restrain - hamper
titular
tendentious
fetter
impervious
36. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
slatternly
petulant
martinet
dossier
37. To distress - to mistreat
bowdlerize
husbandry
aggrieve
toothsome
38. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
rife
dissipate
chicanery
implacable
39. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
pluralism
clout
castigate
exigent
40. All knowing - infinite awareness
ascetic
omniscient
fusillade
sine qua non
41. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
sagacious
vitriolic
slatternly
ossify
42. A wealthy - influential person
raffish
forswear
vicarious
nabob
43. To attack the integrity of something
toothsome
vacuous
levee
impugn
44. To honor - to worship - to respect
slatternly
titular
venerate
cachet
45. Power - strength
perorate
ribald
puissance
castigate
46. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
abstruse
shibboleth
hidebound
circumlocution
47. Favorable to health
mordant
rarefied
leitmotif
salubrious
48. To give off - to conceal
juggernaut
histrionic
feckless
secrete
49. Careful - cautious - wary
patois
bumptious
chary
bandy
50. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
malapropism
recidivism
accouterments
prevaricate