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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. Hardworking - busy - diligent
impecunious
abstruse
assiduous
puissance
2. Power - strength
draconian
leitmotif
savant
puissance
3. To behave
parsimonious
reprobate
facetious
comport
4. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
malapropism
ascetic
privation
disquiet
5. To rot
hoary
putrefy
lassitude
mirthful
6. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
opprobrious
rout
usury
ascetic
7. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
martinet
panegyric
apostasy
rout
8. An illegal act especially by a public official
raffish
malfeasance
encomium
peregrination
9. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
gerrymander
histrionic
neophyte
sententious
10. To swing back and forth
veneer
perfidious
oscillate
inveterate
11. Favorable to health
extirpate
salubrious
sententious
accouterments
12. Influence - a forceful blow
pallid
bon vivant
clout
vagary
13. A procession - a group of attendants
vacuous
sententious
perfunctory
cortege
14. Careful - cautious - wary
omnivorous
usury
diaspora
chary
15. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
saturnine
fusillade
milieu
husbandry
16. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
panacea
machination
acquit
17. An excellent model - a typical example
exigent
rarefied
somnolent
exemplar
18. Stubborn
raffish
coterie
nabob
obdurate
19. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
alacrity
sallow
palliate
20. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
feckless
syllogism
fetter
petulant
21. Occurring during the day - happens every day
patina
diurnal
cortege
syllogism
22. Custom - habit
wont
covet
martinet
penury
23. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
cataclysm
elliptical
pluralism
dulcet
24. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
exemplar
impervious
contentious
protean
25. Empty - lacking intelligence
sally
rout
vacuous
onus
26. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
vitriolic
assignation
portent
gainsay
27. Stingy
parsimonious
imbroglio
abscond
erudite
28. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
bon vivant
endemic
rapprochement
chimerical
29. Hostile - aggressive - savage
exemplar
mendacious
truculent
recidivism
30. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
irascible
gamin
palliate
supercilious
31. Overly sentimental
maudlin
gainsay
phlegmatic
akimbo
32. Facade - coating - outward appearance
veneer
perfidious
repartee
nihilism
33. To wish for with envy
covet
cachet
adumbrate
muckrake
34. Disgraceful and dishonorable
nepotism
slatternly
ignominious
brook
35. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
nirvana
petulant
reticent
husbandry
36. Displeasure or resentment - shade
fey
umbrage
perfidious
gamin
37. A violent upheaval - an earthquake - a flood
cataclysm
perorate
simper
interregnum
38. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
plebeian
salubrious
behemoth
feral
39. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
husbandry
bilious
clout
gird
40. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
malapropism
ascetic
perfidious
wastrel
41. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
feckless
exigent
sangfroid
iniquitous
42. Honesty - uprightness
gerrymander
probity
chicanery
erudite
43. Having foresight
aegis
encomium
paradigm
prescient
44. Whim - an unpredictable action
surreptitious
vagary
propinquity
wont
45. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
descry
accolade
machination
prepossess
46. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
penury
antipodal
bumptious
mellifluous
47. Deception or trickery
sinuous
chicanery
ethnocentric
dossier
48. To muse upon
ruminate
fusillade
bilious
alchemy
49. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
opus
nihilism
perquisite
synergy
50. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
oeuvre
doggerel
raffish
salubrious