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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. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
doggerel
histrionic
parsimonious
anathema
2. Award or honor - high praise
ribald
exemplar
accolade
perfunctory
3. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
abeyance
inchoate
milieu
enervate
4. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
panacea
nirvana
undulate
inveterate
5. Truthful - honest
veracious
perspicacious
abeyance
leitmotif
6. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
desiccate
fey
libation
bon vivant
7. Custom - habit
portent
piquant
wont
temerity
8. To tolerate - to put up with something
ribald
brook
mirthful
bacchanal
9. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
scofflaw
sally
besmirch
machination
10. Talkative
scotch
apostasy
garrulous
nepotism
11. A moment - a short period of time
ossify
oeuvre
prepossess
trice
12. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
noisome
fusillade
contentious
rout
13. Hard to understand or grasp
pallid
abstruse
accolade
perfunctory
14. A drunken reveler or orgy
mendacious
somnolent
provenance
bacchanal
15. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
privation
abscond
pallid
accolade
16. Nearness in place or time - kinship
imbroglio
accolade
propinquity
garrulous
17. To dry out
fecund
nihilism
perspicacious
desiccate
18. Facade - coating - outward appearance
draconian
adjure
disquiet
veneer
19. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
determinism
umbrage
interregnum
intransigent
20. Urgent - demands prompt action
nepotism
levee
ethnocentric
exigent
21. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
prescient
diurnal
fusillade
abscond
22. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
sagacious
gesticulate
matriculate
abstinence
23. Dishonest - deceitful
dulcet
mendacious
parsimonious
moribund
24. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
sangfroid
salubrious
flagellate
anomie
25. To leave quickly and secretively
lassitude
clout
vicarious
abscond
26. Faithless - untrustworthy
patina
perfidious
miasma
mirthful
27. Subsidiary - subordinate
provenance
dilettante
ancillary
libation
28. Fawning - subservient - servile
penultimate
sycophant
obsequious
ethnocentric
29. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
temporize
calumny
mordant
omnivorous
30. Sweetly flowing
aegis
sagacious
mellifluous
verdant
31. Marked with thin lines or grooves
matriculate
chary
surreptitious
striated
32. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
feckless
behemoth
ancillary
paradigm
33. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
recondite
bathos
cabal
ensconce
34. A judge - one who decides
puissance
arbiter
noisome
dulcet
35. To rot
saturnine
cogitate
putrefy
oeuvre
36. Stingy
secrete
gainsay
parsimonious
scotch
37. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
dulcet
reprobate
nascent
alacrity
38. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
debacle
toothsome
sententious
circumlocution
39. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
penultimate
bowdlerize
ascetic
sartorial
40. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
recidivism
hidebound
lope
cataclysm
41. To stir up - to incite
compunction
foment
tony
dulcet
42. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
vagary
plebeian
dossier
recondite
43. Severe - exceedingly harsh
discomfit
draconian
anathema
usury
44. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
cogitate
capricious
ennui
45. To deviate from the truth
prevaricate
largess
reticent
disquiet
46. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
chary
macerate
gerrymander
nascent
47. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
antipodal
onerous
truculent
ancillary
48. A disaster or violent breakdown
sturm and drang
debacle
machination
vagary
49. To give off - to conceal
abstruse
doggerel
secrete
nascent
50. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
viscosity
junta
ribald
mendacious