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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. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
gird
zephyr
mercurial
munificent
2. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
titular
stalwart
nabob
3. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
quiescence
accouterments
vicarious
diurnal
4. Wildly fanciful - absurd
supercilious
quiescence
ignominious
chimerical
5. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
nabob
officious
facetious
putrefy
6. Fertile - productive - fruitful
mordant
recidivism
bivouac
fecund
7. A temporary encampment
bivouac
alchemy
debacle
simper
8. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
rarefied
nonplus
alchemy
lope
9. Something that is an essential condition of
sine qua non
temporize
obdurate
placebo
10. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
ethnocentric
onerous
toothsome
gird
11. To kill or destroy a large part of
enervate
brook
decimate
vicarious
12. Marked with thin lines or grooves
striated
behemoth
simper
mellifluous
13. Honesty - uprightness
ruminate
endemic
wastrel
probity
14. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
apostasy
cogitate
descry
alacrity
15. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
macerate
nirvana
vitriolic
cavil
16. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
rubric
surreptitious
doff
vitriolic
17. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
discomfit
profligate
savant
impervious
18. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
facetious
castigate
perspicacious
mellifluous
19. To run counter to - to show something as false
juggernaut
belie
propinquity
surreptitious
20. To attack the integrity of something
umbrage
nascent
impugn
milieu
21. A creative work - musical composition
sycophant
espy
opus
diaspora
22. Urgent - demands prompt action
exigent
inchoate
provenance
petulant
23. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
hoary
arbiter
punctilious
ancillary
24. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
privation
accouterments
saturnine
quiescence
25. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
malfeasance
effete
bacchanal
penultimate
26. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
temerity
phlegmatic
viscosity
27. Turmoil
fusillade
titular
sturm and drang
perfidious
28. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
perspicacious
cataclysm
usury
imbroglio
29. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
aegis
truculent
behemoth
exigent
30. Deception or trickery
intransigent
chicanery
sagacious
gerrymander
31. To enroll - most particularly in college
adjure
cogitate
matriculate
habeas corpus
32. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
facetious
acquit
propinquity
vicarious
33. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
oscillate
brook
cachet
nabob
34. Favorable to health
repartee
insouciant
salubrious
sallow
35. Custom - habit
ossify
oscillate
wont
opus
36. Without money - penniless
spate
impecunious
quiescence
punctilious
37. Lending money at a high interest rate
usury
discomfit
diaspora
truculent
38. To gesture - especially when speaking
gesticulate
niggardly
lassitude
zeitgeist
39. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
belie
habeas corpus
reticent
endemic
40. Occurring during the day - happens every day
diurnal
dulcet
rout
gird
41. Lacking color - wan
pallid
feckless
patina
wont
42. To weaken - to sap the strength
concomitant
ensconce
enervate
repartee
43. To expose political misconduct
doff
covet
descry
muckrake
44. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
acquit
apostasy
contentious
assignation
45. A judge - one who decides
peregrination
matriculate
arbiter
aegis
46. A procession - a group of attendants
onus
scofflaw
deleterious
cortege
47. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
stalwart
synergy
vacuous
antipodal
48. The act of repeating an offense
recidivism
nepotism
feral
bivouac
49. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
apocryphal
viscosity
ruminate
contentious
50. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
moribund
gesticulate
dichotomy
miasma