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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. To stir up - to incite
pregnant
foment
bathos
noisome
2. A temporary encampment
gestalt
bivouac
onus
hoary
3. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
implacable
brook
hidebound
moribund
4. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
garrulous
protean
discomfit
gerrymander
5. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
synergy
panacea
portent
perorate
6. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
recidivism
impugn
prurient
7. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
neophyte
alacrity
ennui
sycophant
8. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
raffish
dilettante
bilious
sallow
9. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
reprobate
sylvan
pallid
ribald
10. To attack the integrity of something
striated
inveterate
mendacious
impugn
11. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
libidinous
omnivorous
supercilious
ancillary
12. Forest-like - wooded
sylvan
histrionic
redoubtable
venerate
13. To confuse - deceive
dichotomy
discomfit
belie
undulate
14. An expedition - wandering
omnivorous
peregrination
vacuous
ascetic
15. Bad breath
exigent
halitosis
zeitgeist
homeopathy
16. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
abstinence
vitriolic
punctilious
sine qua non
17. A procession - a group of attendants
pallid
prurient
cortege
anathema
18. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
pluralism
savant
dissipate
perfunctory
19. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
spelunker
cortege
piquant
circumlocution
20. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
impervious
perquisite
philistine
leitmotif
21. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
bathos
comport
niggardly
profligate
22. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
panacea
rubric
ambulatory
omnivorous
23. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
rubric
martinet
sui generis
apostasy
24. Lacking color - wan
pallid
stalwart
erudite
decimate
25. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
shibboleth
depredate
onus
covet
26. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
philistine
puissance
anomie
apocryphal
27. To give off - to conceal
forswear
mercurial
secrete
sui generis
28. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
rout
mellifluous
perorate
endemic
29. One who adheres strictly to rules
nihilism
martinet
macerate
compunction
30. The act of repeating an offense
facetious
vainglorious
assignation
recidivism
31. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
quiescence
ennui
undulate
somnolent
32. Extreme poverty
arbiter
determinism
saturnine
penury
33. Truthful - honest
habeas corpus
synergy
prurient
veracious
34. Stingy
parsimonious
mirthful
patois
nabob
35. Having foresight
prescient
sally
veracious
compunction
36. Urgent - demands prompt action
sartorial
capricious
habeas corpus
exigent
37. Honesty - uprightness
garrulous
probity
nepotism
reticent
38. Vulgar or indecent language
ribald
compunction
husbandry
recidivism
39. Environment - surroundings
libidinous
interregnum
milieu
gamin
40. To invest with authority - to brace
bumptious
gird
synergy
lassitude
41. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
reprobate
inchoate
adjure
tendentious
42. A beginner - a novice
neophyte
provenance
halitosis
veracious
43. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
sagacious
zephyr
ethnocentric
maudlin
44. A disaster or violent breakdown
bandy
castigate
vacuous
debacle
45. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
scofflaw
dissipate
clout
oeuvre
46. One who is continually breaking the law
bacchanal
scofflaw
recondite
itinerant
47. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
espy
opus
viscosity
accouterments
48. To make uneasy
brook
disquiet
milieu
savant
49. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
ruminate
lassitude
deleterious
salubrious
50. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
recidivism
imbroglio
niggardly
facetious