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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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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. Full-figured - plump
onus
zaftig
exemplar
sententious
2. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
deleterious
contentious
wizened
syllogism
3. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
accouterments
accolade
fetter
plebeian
4. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
prowess
peregrination
depredate
5. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
saturnine
inchoate
impervious
enervate
6. A temporary encampment
irascible
bivouac
aggrieve
niggardly
7. A beginner - a novice
sui generis
veneer
neophyte
iniquitous
8. A disaster or violent breakdown
vitriolic
debacle
mellifluous
penury
9. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
perfunctory
feral
lassitude
officious
10. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
disquiet
puissance
sagacious
11. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
sententious
flagellate
gesticulate
raffish
12. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
nirvana
akimbo
debacle
acquit
13. Without money - penniless
impecunious
slatternly
fecund
garrulous
14. Deception or trickery
zephyr
chicanery
ersatz
phantasm
15. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
cavil
savant
plebeian
synergy
16. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
fauna
parsimonious
privation
depredate
17. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
niggardly
oscillate
myopia
adjure
18. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
impervious
itinerant
wizened
shibboleth
19. To impede - restrain - hamper
juggernaut
piquant
fetter
garrulous
20. Uncompromising - stubborn
toothsome
intransigent
elliptical
ignominious
21. A temporary suspension of activity
homeopathy
abeyance
temporize
imbroglio
22. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
salubrious
secrete
punctilious
23. A system of natural healing
homeopathy
perspicacious
contentious
repartee
24. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
cataclysm
bathos
bumptious
mendacious
25. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
abstruse
inchoate
temporize
fetter
26. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
dichotomy
mercurial
opus
ossify
27. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
fauna
depredate
antipodal
milieu
28. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
placebo
prepossess
evanescent
accolade
29. Squalid - a slovenly woman
slatternly
hoary
reprobate
capricious
30. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
gestalt
penury
implacable
determinism
31. Native - belonging to a specific region
surreptitious
somnolent
endemic
libidinous
32. To confuse - deceive
propinquity
bon vivant
discomfit
concomitant
33. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
savant
muckrake
prevaricate
34. Drowsy - sleepy
mordant
somnolent
portent
nabob
35. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
insouciant
clout
ignominious
sturm and drang
36. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
evanescent
behemoth
vagary
striated
37. To leave quickly and secretively
abscond
alacrity
lassitude
conflagration
38. Having foresight
titular
zaftig
coterie
prescient
39. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
gird
akimbo
paradigm
usury
40. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
titular
rout
vagary
gamin
41. Nearness in place or time - kinship
propinquity
zeitgeist
fauna
anomie
42. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
wont
provenance
elliptical
nabob
43. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
vagary
vicarious
fey
concomitant
44. Winding - having many curves
moribund
ersatz
sinuous
antipodal
45. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
hoary
panacea
prowess
disquiet
46. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
exigent
lassitude
mirthful
adjure
47. Stingy
parsimonious
trice
rarefied
comport
48. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
impugn
niggardly
officious
circumlocution
49. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
umbrage
facetious
histrionic
gerrymander
50. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
levee
cogitate
putrefy
depredate