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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 invest with authority - to brace
anomie
gird
neophyte
portent
2. Full-figured - plump
remuneration
zeitgeist
zaftig
impervious
3. Award or honor - high praise
accolade
desiccate
venerate
mirthful
4. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
assignation
timorous
noisome
syllogism
5. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
accolade
nirvana
recondite
pallid
6. Stingy
vicarious
nonplus
parsimonious
determinism
7. Being in a dying or decaying condition
stalwart
bandy
fey
moribund
8. Fertile - productive - fruitful
fecund
assiduous
sui generis
wont
9. To run counter to - to show something as false
ersatz
itinerant
quiescence
belie
10. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
dulcet
apocryphal
sine qua non
repartee
11. Uncompromising - stubborn
intransigent
nabob
extirpate
vacuous
12. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
putrefy
recondite
usury
portent
13. Coming into existence - being born
imbroglio
nascent
matriculate
lope
14. A beginner - a novice
garrulous
covet
accolade
neophyte
15. A wealthy - influential person
nabob
largess
perspicacious
impervious
16. Disgraceful and dishonorable
oeuvre
ignominious
sententious
ribald
17. To make better - to ease or improve
opus
secrete
ameliorate
profligate
18. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
sententious
mendacious
inveterate
forswear
19. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
sartorial
perquisite
ossify
tendentious
20. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
libation
behemoth
adjure
supercilious
21. Displeasure or resentment - shade
portent
miasma
umbrage
encomium
22. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
rubric
lassitude
temerity
23. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
capricious
doff
tony
24. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
espy
zaftig
deleterious
petulant
25. The act of repeating an offense
recidivism
simper
salubrious
slatternly
26. An excellent model - a typical example
exemplar
sinuous
anathema
undulate
27. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
saturnine
opprobrious
vicarious
gamin
28. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
fey
zeitgeist
lope
libidinous
29. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
evanescent
forswear
officious
impecunious
30. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
abstinence
determinism
nepotism
petulant
31. A temporary suspension of activity
histrionic
abeyance
ribald
rarefied
32. Common - vulgar - low class
quiescence
slatternly
plebeian
reticent
33. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
discomfit
phantasm
besmirch
34. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
assignation
rout
calumny
profligate
35. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
effete
facetious
maudlin
supercilious
36. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
nihilism
exigent
assiduous
depredate
37. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
ascetic
phlegmatic
reprobate
38. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
bumptious
levee
extirpate
apostasy
39. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
disquiet
lope
milieu
feral
40. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
ethnocentric
remuneration
clout
facetious
41. Boastful - pompous
neophyte
vainglorious
chary
inchoate
42. Boldness - rashness - audacity
cabal
temerity
petulant
patois
43. A dominant or recurring theme
gesticulate
phlegmatic
leitmotif
encomium
44. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
contentious
ambulatory
mendacious
45. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
forswear
panacea
compunction
46. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
imbroglio
assiduous
discomfit
castigate
47. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
garrulous
pluralism
vacuous
cavil
48. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
rubric
noisome
doggerel
erudite
49. A difficult and confused situation - a complicated disagreement
umbrage
enervate
imbroglio
effete
50. To rot
sententious
putrefy
arbiter
enervate