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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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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 large - disastrous fire
mercurial
conflagration
cachet
calumny
2. A drunken reveler or orgy
nabob
savant
wizened
bacchanal
3. Evil - unjust
extirpate
foment
vicarious
iniquitous
4. Environment - surroundings
milieu
nonplus
comport
vainglorious
5. Custom - habit
piquant
opprobrious
extirpate
wont
6. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
doff
zeitgeist
veneer
nonplus
7. Winding - having many curves
sinuous
perfunctory
capricious
striated
8. Wise - shrewd
muckrake
sagacious
diurnal
reticent
9. Lustful - lascivious
ethnocentric
prepossess
libidinous
habeas corpus
10. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
ennui
acquit
perfidious
vicarious
11. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
doff
fetter
privation
gamin
12. Uncompromising - stubborn
erudite
sententious
martinet
intransigent
13. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
prurient
histrionic
pregnant
calumny
14. One who is continually breaking the law
mercurial
scofflaw
akimbo
dossier
15. Hardworking - busy - diligent
spelunker
assiduous
arbiter
penury
16. Influence - a forceful blow
clout
privation
trice
akimbo
17. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
sententious
ruminate
doggerel
perfidious
18. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
scotch
phlegmatic
recondite
concomitant
19. Oval - obscure in expression
elliptical
iniquitous
striated
garrulous
20. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
gamin
byzantine
verdant
umbrage
21. Facade - coating - outward appearance
apostasy
veneer
bilious
palliate
22. An apparition - phantom
prevaricate
nirvana
sine qua non
phantasm
23. A model or example
paradigm
matriculate
adumbrate
nepotism
24. Relating to dress or fashion
niggardly
matriculate
sartorial
machination
25. A dominant or recurring theme
calumny
leitmotif
elliptical
saturnine
26. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
elliptical
capricious
rife
hidebound
27. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
plebeian
mendacious
husbandry
itinerant
28. Disgraceful and dishonorable
ignominious
ethnocentric
sangfroid
fetter
29. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
piquant
forswear
saturnine
acquit
30. A moment - a short period of time
tony
trice
protean
dichotomy
31. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
bon vivant
hidebound
pallid
placebo
32. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
pregnant
mellifluous
prurient
veracious
33. To impede - restrain - hamper
chimerical
myopia
fetter
syllogism
34. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
inveterate
truculent
malapropism
cataclysm
35. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
gird
provenance
espy
diaspora
36. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
mercurial
privation
abstinence
assignation
37. Severe - exceedingly harsh
castigate
reprobate
apocryphal
draconian
38. Bad breath
lope
niggardly
halitosis
desiccate
39. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
nihilism
venerate
akimbo
tony
40. Turmoil
antipodal
ameliorate
castigate
sturm and drang
41. Forest-like - wooded
patina
sinuous
verdant
sylvan
42. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
sagacious
facetious
trice
mercurial
43. To swing back and forth
oscillate
phantasm
exigent
putrefy
44. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
itinerant
gamin
stalwart
45. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
truculent
bowdlerize
maudlin
onus
46. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
dulcet
perorate
compunction
truculent
47. Overly sentimental
myopia
cataclysm
maudlin
compunction
48. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
paradigm
dulcet
bandy
cataclysm
49. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
aegis
pluralism
sui generis
onus
50. Native - belonging to a specific region
prescient
endemic
vicarious
vagary