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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. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
rout
dissipate
depredate
savant
2. Forest-like - wooded
cabal
propinquity
depredate
sylvan
3. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
circumlocution
disquiet
neophyte
bumptious
4. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
saturnine
prepossess
recondite
sententious
5. To run counter to - to show something as false
venerate
belie
munificent
vitriolic
6. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
ascetic
prevaricate
panacea
bathos
7. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
sententious
impugn
nihilism
noisome
8. Native - belonging to a specific region
reprobate
implacable
endemic
extirpate
9. Sneaky - secret
sinuous
cogitate
surreptitious
propinquity
10. Fearful - easily frightened
timorous
gerrymander
muckrake
raffish
11. Retract - renounce or recant
forswear
onus
perfunctory
descry
12. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
gerrymander
hoary
apostasy
myopia
13. A dominant or recurring theme
foment
husbandry
chimerical
leitmotif
14. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
coterie
reprobate
privation
enervate
15. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
scofflaw
irascible
synergy
ruminate
16. Facade - coating - outward appearance
striated
deleterious
impecunious
veneer
17. To swing back and forth
zeitgeist
effete
oscillate
placebo
18. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
cabal
depredate
perspicacious
surreptitious
19. To rot
onerous
inveterate
coterie
putrefy
20. Lending money at a high interest rate
rapprochement
sententious
usury
assignation
21. Dishonest - deceitful
impervious
mendacious
ossify
garrulous
22. Harmful
deleterious
pregnant
depredate
homeopathy
23. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
rubric
vitriolic
apostasy
extirpate
24. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
salubrious
nirvana
levee
sallow
25. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
ennui
omnivorous
nihilism
ascetic
26. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
patina
phantasm
omnivorous
forswear
27. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
iniquitous
bandy
sangfroid
machination
28. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
scofflaw
intransigent
desiccate
onerous
29. Shriveled - withered
wizened
assiduous
draconian
cabal
30. To impede - restrain - hamper
bacchanal
obsequious
bilious
fetter
31. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
wizened
vitriolic
habeas corpus
32. Turmoil
prepossess
apogee
remuneration
sturm and drang
33. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
habeas corpus
zaftig
assignation
punctilious
34. Lacking color - wan
propinquity
prurient
assignation
pallid
35. To smile foolishly
implacable
perfidious
simper
panegyric
36. A cave explorer
spelunker
ersatz
implacable
apogee
37. Honesty - uprightness
probity
ensconce
toothsome
ossify
38. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
contentious
somnolent
veneer
ribald
39. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
protean
elliptical
prowess
sallow
40. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
byzantine
ennui
miasma
bilious
41. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
descry
penultimate
miasma
gestalt
42. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
sturm and drang
erudite
reticent
conflagration
43. To wish for with envy
covet
tony
sagacious
placebo
44. To invest with authority - to brace
compunction
gird
undulate
reprobate
45. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
mordant
martinet
pluralism
gestalt
46. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
quiescence
circumlocution
libidinous
veracious
47. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
exigent
probity
insouciant
machination
48. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
garrulous
sallow
venerate
arbiter
49. Careful - cautious - wary
patois
propinquity
byzantine
chary
50. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
adjure
pallid
extirpate
habeas corpus