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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. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
repartee
espy
elliptical
opprobrious
2. To make uneasy
disquiet
plebeian
depredate
concomitant
3. A cave explorer
chary
muckrake
puissance
spelunker
4. In title only
insouciant
protean
titular
fusillade
5. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
sententious
petulant
viscosity
parsimonious
6. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
toothsome
concomitant
omnivorous
elliptical
7. To distress - to mistreat
libidinous
aggrieve
adumbrate
noisome
8. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
gird
redoubtable
mellifluous
impervious
9. Coming into existence - being born
repartee
rout
ancillary
nascent
10. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
munificent
determinism
nonplus
protean
11. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
alacrity
penultimate
vicarious
feckless
12. A creative work - musical composition
macerate
stalwart
opus
apogee
13. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
adumbrate
sui generis
opprobrious
salubrious
14. To leave quickly and secretively
patois
penury
abscond
debacle
15. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
phlegmatic
assignation
provenance
descry
16. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
malapropism
punctilious
sine qua non
17. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
tony
palliate
striated
cataclysm
18. Vulgar or indecent language
gestalt
ribald
alacrity
circumlocution
19. All knowing - infinite awareness
panacea
omniscient
zephyr
bacchanal
20. To confuse - deceive
anomie
discomfit
gainsay
aegis
21. To run at a steady - easy pace
toothsome
lope
patois
comport
22. Uncompromising - stubborn
insouciant
mercurial
clout
intransigent
23. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
impervious
antipodal
hoary
nonplus
24. Native - belonging to a specific region
endemic
zeitgeist
mendacious
patina
25. A file of documents - letters and records
dossier
disquiet
aegis
niggardly
26. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
contentious
vainglorious
leitmotif
gainsay
27. Oval - obscure in expression
fey
chimerical
elliptical
adumbrate
28. To deviate from the truth
perfunctory
gesticulate
prevaricate
viscosity
29. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
abeyance
bivouac
patina
oeuvre
30. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
patois
conflagration
officious
maudlin
31. Drowsy - sleepy
sturm and drang
coterie
doggerel
somnolent
32. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
enervate
depredate
perfidious
33. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
determinism
sinuous
mordant
raffish
34. Full-figured - plump
usury
zaftig
diurnal
belie
35. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
sententious
halitosis
flagellate
apoplexy
36. One who adheres strictly to rules
impervious
adjure
effete
martinet
37. Generous
omniscient
munificent
fecund
foment
38. A disaster or violent breakdown
gerrymander
ersatz
debacle
arbiter
39. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
mercurial
macerate
quiescence
sycophant
40. Relating to dress or fashion
sturm and drang
prowess
sartorial
exemplar
41. A temporary encampment
bivouac
savant
philistine
bilious
42. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
accouterments
prevaricate
malfeasance
remuneration
43. A wealthy - influential person
sallow
usury
foment
nabob
44. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
matriculate
prowess
pluralism
fauna
45. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
mellifluous
evanescent
aggrieve
46. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
rout
doggerel
forswear
quiescence
47. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
noisome
ossify
arbiter
prevaricate
48. Lacking color - wan
pallid
cataclysm
cachet
prescient
49. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
sine qua non
sartorial
mendacious
capricious
50. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
redoubtable
bowdlerize
panacea
reticent