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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
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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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 pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
libation
histrionic
fecund
punctilious
2. Turmoil
toothsome
sine qua non
sturm and drang
puissance
3. To tolerate - to put up with something
brook
undulate
opus
tony
4. A disaster or violent breakdown
circumlocution
debacle
gerrymander
opprobrious
5. An apparition - phantom
extirpate
pregnant
phantasm
ennui
6. Disgraceful and dishonorable
calumny
ignominious
lope
opus
7. Favorable to health
draconian
salubrious
bowdlerize
ignominious
8. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
nonplus
bandy
simper
dilettante
9. A fake medication
ascetic
interregnum
scofflaw
placebo
10. Talkative
garrulous
penury
decimate
sine qua non
11. Drowsy - sleepy
prurient
somnolent
malapropism
nihilism
12. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
leitmotif
zephyr
flagellate
descry
13. Next to last
discomfit
tony
petulant
penultimate
14. A procession - a group of attendants
ossify
cortege
toothsome
comport
15. A temporary suspension of activity
dichotomy
matriculate
abeyance
facetious
16. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
leitmotif
maudlin
nabob
officious
17. Covered with green plants - leafy
decimate
habeas corpus
mordant
verdant
18. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
undulate
wizened
puissance
lassitude
19. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
maudlin
bumptious
nepotism
tony
20. To make uneasy
muckrake
libidinous
disquiet
zephyr
21. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
sangfroid
hoary
contentious
titular
22. To weaken - to sap the strength
usury
enervate
supercilious
rapprochement
23. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
vacuous
pregnant
perquisite
vitriolic
24. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
portent
striated
myopia
petulant
25. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
irascible
levee
nihilism
garrulous
26. Whim - an unpredictable action
vagary
adjure
propinquity
encomium
27. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
arbiter
opus
sui generis
rubric
28. A sudden outburst
foment
recalcitrant
spate
aegis
29. To leave quickly and secretively
supercilious
abscond
martinet
tendentious
30. Something that is an essential condition of
bon vivant
myopia
mendacious
sine qua non
31. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
spate
deleterious
temporize
assiduous
32. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
ruminate
myopia
miasma
fusillade
33. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
adjure
ambulatory
toothsome
exigent
34. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
temerity
abrogate
savant
phantasm
35. An inferior substitute
encomium
adjure
phlegmatic
ersatz
36. A drunken reveler or orgy
abrogate
bacchanal
libidinous
spelunker
37. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
matriculate
discomfit
alacrity
bilious
38. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
peregrination
junta
prepossess
putrefy
39. Nearness in place or time - kinship
zeitgeist
flagellate
effete
propinquity
40. To dry out
sine qua non
desiccate
arbiter
fecund
41. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
abstinence
ribald
profligate
wizened
42. Native - belonging to a specific region
miasma
endemic
alacrity
draconian
43. A gentle breeze
paradigm
accouterments
coterie
zephyr
44. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
titular
miasma
histrionic
noisome
45. A moment - a short period of time
trice
wont
elliptical
ascetic
46. To put an end to
homeopathy
muckrake
philistine
scotch
47. Hardworking - busy - diligent
prurient
assiduous
bumptious
slatternly
48. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
espy
draconian
ameliorate
apostasy
49. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
prurient
sycophant
facetious
repartee
50. Displeasure or resentment - shade
niggardly
umbrage
bacchanal
profligate