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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
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. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
niggardly
toothsome
philistine
chimerical
2. Influence - a forceful blow
wont
clout
impervious
forswear
3. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
truculent
mendacious
accolade
dissipate
4. The act of repeating an offense
recidivism
espy
pallid
disquiet
5. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
sartorial
ambulatory
junta
ersatz
6. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
junta
sally
paradigm
bandy
7. Division into two often contradictory parts
vacuous
apogee
dichotomy
endemic
8. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
acquit
profligate
feral
adjure
9. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
vicarious
cogitate
quiescence
inveterate
10. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
undulate
circumlocution
onerous
rarefied
11. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
obsequious
macerate
dichotomy
alacrity
12. Urgent - demands prompt action
forswear
exigent
perfidious
apocryphal
13. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
petulant
synergy
chicanery
timorous
14. Sneaky - secret
surreptitious
libation
mercurial
apocryphal
15. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
miasma
aggrieve
depredate
prevaricate
16. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
reprobate
puissance
ribald
supercilious
17. To make better - to ease or improve
patois
ameliorate
bathos
fetter
18. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
sangfroid
behemoth
omnivorous
dichotomy
19. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
sagacious
martinet
ribald
byzantine
20. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
sententious
bon vivant
rout
prurient
21. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
puissance
besmirch
tony
dissipate
22. Stubborn
mellifluous
obdurate
bon vivant
ersatz
23. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
cavil
debacle
hidebound
ethnocentric
24. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
cogitate
paradigm
clout
dichotomy
25. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
rubric
gamin
obsequious
prowess
26. To give off - to conceal
contentious
muckrake
prescient
secrete
27. A beginner - a novice
lassitude
neophyte
matriculate
hidebound
28. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
homeopathy
imbroglio
halitosis
prepossess
29. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
puissance
dulcet
provenance
lassitude
30. Power - strength
puissance
reprobate
debacle
inchoate
31. To distress - to mistreat
aggrieve
chary
mordant
mirthful
32. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
oeuvre
exigent
interregnum
fey
33. Deception or trickery
coterie
chicanery
sally
bon vivant
34. Hot-tempered - cranky
niggardly
feckless
irascible
saturnine
35. To rot
punctilious
imbroglio
garrulous
putrefy
36. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
impervious
halitosis
circumlocution
enervate
37. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
husbandry
perspicacious
profligate
impugn
38. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
munificent
savant
bandy
ribald
39. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
abeyance
insouciant
miasma
capricious
40. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
sycophant
supercilious
patois
abscond
41. A sudden outburst
castigate
clout
veneer
spate
42. A file of documents - letters and records
fey
puissance
dossier
levee
43. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
mordant
repartee
machination
oscillate
44. Evil - unjust
iniquitous
bacchanal
putrefy
reticent
45. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
perspicacious
scofflaw
provenance
martinet
46. Displeasure or resentment - shade
lassitude
forswear
stalwart
umbrage
47. Dishonest - deceitful
mendacious
syllogism
zeitgeist
determinism
48. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
prevaricate
perquisite
rubric
vitriolic
49. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
contentious
libation
myopia
obdurate
50. To attack the integrity of something
irascible
probity
impugn
martinet