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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. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
lassitude
erudite
provenance
doff
2. Honesty - uprightness
probity
apoplexy
aegis
mellifluous
3. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
simper
ensconce
exigent
nihilism
4. Fawning - subservient - servile
sturm and drang
descry
sylvan
obsequious
5. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
libation
recidivism
anathema
trice
6. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
miasma
foment
histrionic
punctilious
7. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
philistine
adjure
facetious
vainglorious
8. To censor prudishly - to rewrite crudely
behemoth
bowdlerize
clout
sententious
9. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
deleterious
sententious
rapprochement
quiescence
10. Overly sentimental
maudlin
recondite
hoary
sycophant
11. Evil - unjust
ossify
officious
apostasy
iniquitous
12. A moment - a short period of time
trice
penury
dissipate
alchemy
13. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
cachet
cavil
repartee
nascent
14. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
castigate
hoary
disquiet
vitriolic
15. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
ambulatory
alchemy
sallow
synergy
16. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
interregnum
sallow
dulcet
fecund
17. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
insouciant
perspicacious
exigent
ensconce
18. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
fey
vitriolic
obsequious
phantasm
19. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
bumptious
paradigm
besmirch
apogee
20. To kill or destroy a large part of
phantasm
discomfit
apostasy
decimate
21. A temporary suspension of activity
alchemy
abeyance
saturnine
bilious
22. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
lassitude
philistine
vicarious
niggardly
23. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
piquant
obsequious
provenance
quiescence
24. To muse upon
fey
ruminate
gird
prepossess
25. An expedition - wandering
erudite
plebeian
peregrination
machination
26. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
abeyance
acquit
mellifluous
27. Generous
penury
niggardly
pregnant
munificent
28. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
rapprochement
implacable
sylvan
belie
29. A system of natural healing
acquit
recalcitrant
ruminate
homeopathy
30. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
mercurial
habeas corpus
supercilious
ethnocentric
31. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
libation
obdurate
feckless
spelunker
32. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perspicacious
tony
scofflaw
perfunctory
33. Lacking color - wan
wont
determinism
impervious
pallid
34. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
reticent
munificent
bathos
noisome
35. 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
omnivorous
diaspora
prowess
gamin
36. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
vainglorious
timorous
prepossess
cachet
37. A drunken reveler or orgy
surreptitious
bivouac
bacchanal
nirvana
38. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
remuneration
draconian
ascetic
doff
39. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
itinerant
feckless
recalcitrant
junta
40. A gentle breeze
hidebound
assiduous
nihilism
zephyr
41. Burden - blame - obligation
onus
moribund
usury
petulant
42. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
covet
malapropism
perquisite
gestalt
43. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
punctilious
apoplexy
doggerel
exemplar
44. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
assignation
depredate
apostasy
45. A remedy that cures everything
panacea
obsequious
pluralism
capricious
46. Displeasure or resentment - shade
impecunious
raffish
umbrage
sententious
47. To dry out
desiccate
profligate
penultimate
ensconce
48. Without money - penniless
bumptious
feral
impecunious
palliate
49. An inferior substitute
ersatz
tony
prowess
impervious
50. To gesture - especially when speaking
ancillary
castigate
gesticulate
cortege