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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. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
apostasy
dichotomy
fetter
sycophant
2. Harmful
recidivism
deleterious
veracious
malfeasance
3. Uncompromising - stubborn
scofflaw
exemplar
intransigent
histrionic
4. Without money - penniless
impecunious
moribund
sinuous
gesticulate
5. Relating to dress or fashion
bon vivant
chary
encomium
sartorial
6. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
pluralism
conflagration
flagellate
levee
7. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
evanescent
philistine
pregnant
zephyr
8. The mood or spirit of the times
paradigm
zeitgeist
homeopathy
shibboleth
9. Winding - having many curves
sinuous
puissance
vacuous
dossier
10. A system of natural healing
timorous
hidebound
homeopathy
apoplexy
11. Lustful - lascivious
libidinous
sententious
cavil
prescient
12. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
conflagration
sangfroid
noisome
implacable
13. Hardworking - busy - diligent
assiduous
accolade
apogee
implacable
14. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
impugn
anathema
imbroglio
doggerel
15. Being in a dying or decaying condition
extirpate
apocryphal
moribund
titular
16. A judge - one who decides
slatternly
arbiter
sally
scofflaw
17. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
omniscient
wizened
cavil
apogee
18. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
profligate
contentious
ameliorate
19. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
gerrymander
gamin
sagacious
dulcet
20. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
lope
pregnant
onerous
sycophant
21. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
puissance
mercurial
panegyric
draconian
22. A sudden outburst
sine qua non
spate
prescient
propinquity
23. To tolerate - to put up with something
byzantine
foment
brook
bumptious
24. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
fusillade
circumlocution
vainglorious
debacle
25. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
alacrity
foment
ensconce
wizened
26. All knowing - infinite awareness
reticent
omniscient
vainglorious
dulcet
27. Vulgar or indecent language
ribald
mendacious
onus
nepotism
28. Fawning - subservient - servile
rapprochement
conflagration
belie
obsequious
29. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
insouciant
dilettante
facetious
abstruse
30. A large - disastrous fire
levee
conflagration
moribund
sagacious
31. To muse upon
miasma
ruminate
pallid
simper
32. Full-figured - plump
impecunious
zaftig
parsimonious
prescient
33. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
gird
miasma
shibboleth
malapropism
34. To stir up - to incite
foment
nirvana
raffish
protean
35. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
bandy
provenance
aggrieve
juggernaut
36. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
veneer
nepotism
profligate
37. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
desiccate
malapropism
chimerical
dichotomy
38. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
rout
rife
imbroglio
supercilious
39. Having foresight
cortege
prescient
sententious
circumlocution
40. Moving from place to place
sagacious
itinerant
wont
gesticulate
41. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
sally
fecund
secrete
raffish
42. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
akimbo
apoplexy
piquant
bumptious
43. Empty - lacking intelligence
vacuous
machination
impervious
ossify
44. A re-establishment of good relations
rapprochement
acquit
enervate
opprobrious
45. Disgraceful and dishonorable
ignominious
zaftig
ossify
homeopathy
46. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
wizened
ameliorate
gestalt
reticent
47. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
moribund
verdant
debacle
prurient
48. A model or example
paradigm
perspicacious
punctilious
savant
49. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
syllogism
mercurial
neophyte
adjure
50. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
privation
titular
akimbo
ossify