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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. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
opus
privation
capricious
onerous
2. To stir up - to incite
onus
doff
foment
machination
3. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
opprobrious
elan
inchoate
apoplexy
4. A wealthy - influential person
prepossess
sententious
nabob
scotch
5. An intimate group of people with a common interest
viscosity
coterie
brook
impecunious
6. State of rest or inactivity
diurnal
besmirch
nihilism
quiescence
7. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
quiescence
palliate
slatternly
facetious
8. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
bandy
tony
patina
diaspora
9. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
imbroglio
descry
diurnal
myopia
10. Division into two often contradictory parts
dichotomy
vicarious
leitmotif
macerate
11. In title only
scofflaw
titular
tendentious
mendacious
12. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
conflagration
inchoate
punctilious
simper
13. Shriveled - withered
discomfit
veracious
ribald
wizened
14. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
malfeasance
bumptious
vainglorious
fusillade
15. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
viscosity
chary
concomitant
malapropism
16. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
peregrination
foment
synergy
depredate
17. Being in a dying or decaying condition
moribund
titular
patina
akimbo
18. To put an end to
juggernaut
ennui
scotch
castigate
19. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
facetious
pregnant
prurient
20. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
hidebound
nihilism
sally
anathema
21. An excellent model - a typical example
exemplar
zeitgeist
ameliorate
gesticulate
22. Fertile - productive - fruitful
fecund
interregnum
sally
descry
23. To smile foolishly
muckrake
simper
putrefy
ameliorate
24. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
insouciant
contentious
nihilism
perfidious
25. A temporary suspension of activity
onerous
chary
abeyance
inveterate
26. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
alchemy
prevaricate
imbroglio
ersatz
27. A system of natural healing
opprobrious
ribald
munificent
homeopathy
28. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
provenance
temporize
veneer
machination
29. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
bathos
matriculate
umbrage
perquisite
30. Without money - penniless
impecunious
facetious
mendacious
coterie
31. Disgraceful and dishonorable
ignominious
syllogism
ambulatory
fusillade
32. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
leitmotif
dilettante
lope
vainglorious
33. A remedy that cures everything
officious
omnivorous
panacea
abstinence
34. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
apocryphal
garrulous
muckrake
largess
35. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
ignominious
abstinence
doff
fey
36. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
chary
elliptical
petulant
covet
37. To kill or destroy a large part of
penury
apostasy
mercurial
decimate
38. To weaken - to sap the strength
mendacious
enervate
zeitgeist
sine qua non
39. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
dissipate
sallow
perfidious
impugn
40. Heading - title - category
wastrel
martinet
sangfroid
rubric
41. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
salubrious
penury
fey
recondite
42. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
sartorial
putrefy
cabal
perfunctory
43. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
bandy
abeyance
cachet
opprobrious
44. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
provenance
perquisite
opprobrious
diurnal
45. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
recondite
tony
debacle
quiescence
46. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
niggardly
panegyric
gesticulate
47. To enroll - most particularly in college
vagary
matriculate
nihilism
malfeasance
48. Facade - coating - outward appearance
discomfit
sallow
abstinence
veneer
49. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
remuneration
doggerel
doff
redoubtable
50. A temporary encampment
impecunious
bivouac
rife
habeas corpus