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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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1. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
mendacious
spelunker
vicarious
piquant
2. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
mendacious
ensconce
reticent
sycophant
3. Division into two often contradictory parts
paradigm
prevaricate
dichotomy
ensconce
4. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
prescient
irascible
redoubtable
abeyance
5. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
panegyric
capricious
sangfroid
concomitant
6. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
synergy
repartee
intransigent
compunction
7. Slander - deliberate false statements
calumny
interregnum
temporize
ascetic
8. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
privation
venerate
endemic
impervious
9. A judge - one who decides
erudite
impecunious
discomfit
arbiter
10. To swing back and forth
acquit
foment
perspicacious
oscillate
11. A fake medication
intransigent
homeopathy
placebo
titular
12. To make uneasy
disquiet
venerate
rife
perspicacious
13. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
myopia
fey
malapropism
aegis
14. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
perquisite
ersatz
vagary
bilious
15. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
undulate
bowdlerize
diaspora
nihilism
16. To enroll - most particularly in college
gainsay
peregrination
paradigm
matriculate
17. Displeasure or resentment - shade
plebeian
oscillate
gainsay
umbrage
18. Winding - having many curves
petulant
oscillate
sinuous
myopia
19. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
sylvan
noisome
piquant
bon vivant
20. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
compunction
protean
punctilious
21. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
leitmotif
scotch
nihilism
elan
22. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
interregnum
nihilism
cogitate
imbroglio
23. Nearness in place or time - kinship
impecunious
propinquity
puissance
phlegmatic
24. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
implacable
disquiet
interregnum
leitmotif
25. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
sine qua non
espy
parsimonious
ignominious
26. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
zaftig
somnolent
inchoate
titular
27. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
irascible
raffish
titular
fusillade
28. Faithless - untrustworthy
mellifluous
libidinous
nonplus
perfidious
29. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
effete
miasma
largess
obsequious
30. Hot-tempered - cranky
enervate
irascible
vainglorious
ruminate
31. Merry - gleeful
mirthful
panegyric
munificent
alacrity
32. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
somnolent
onerous
panegyric
veneer
33. A remedy that cures everything
panacea
miasma
scotch
nihilism
34. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
husbandry
bowdlerize
bivouac
capricious
35. A massive - unstoppable object
temerity
prurient
juggernaut
neophyte
36. Disgraceful and dishonorable
secrete
ignominious
prepossess
bathos
37. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
libidinous
sententious
onus
sine qua non
38. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
iniquitous
ethnocentric
cataclysm
sycophant
39. To gesture - especially when speaking
erudite
gesticulate
piquant
implacable
40. Advancing a point of view - biased
mordant
covet
pregnant
tendentious
41. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
espy
omnivorous
anomie
concomitant
42. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
gestalt
libation
mirthful
abstruse
43. Lacking color - wan
antipodal
truculent
ancillary
pallid
44. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
depredate
undulate
paradigm
ribald
45. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
temporize
sturm and drang
salubrious
effete
46. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
circumlocution
feckless
ascetic
halitosis
47. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
ensconce
nonplus
besmirch
accouterments
48. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
truculent
propinquity
diurnal
recondite
49. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
bacchanal
mercurial
abstinence
apocryphal
50. To distress - to mistreat
besmirch
aggrieve
prowess
diaspora