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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Having foresight
impervious
desiccate
prescient
panacea
2. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
gamin
perquisite
profligate
garrulous
3. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
sartorial
apostasy
raffish
compunction
4. Animals
compunction
undulate
ambulatory
fauna
5. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
fey
ruminate
niggardly
repartee
6. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
castigate
capricious
draconian
scotch
7. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
myopia
perfunctory
stalwart
hidebound
8. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
desiccate
veracious
niggardly
depredate
9. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
ennui
phlegmatic
prepossess
sycophant
10. Power - strength
nepotism
exigent
sententious
puissance
11. Award or honor - high praise
viscosity
discomfit
accolade
irascible
12. Lustful - lascivious
libidinous
apogee
determinism
gamin
13. A disaster or violent breakdown
cataclysm
probity
debacle
mendacious
14. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
contentious
propinquity
bumptious
sinuous
15. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
cogitate
lope
reticent
coterie
16. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
assiduous
chimerical
hidebound
accouterments
17. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
opprobrious
irascible
scotch
habeas corpus
18. Evil - unjust
iniquitous
malapropism
timorous
officious
19. To kill or destroy a large part of
alchemy
pluralism
cortege
decimate
20. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
muckrake
calumny
prowess
impecunious
21. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
opus
junta
panegyric
veracious
22. Sneaky - secret
leitmotif
supercilious
surreptitious
covet
23. Disgraceful and dishonorable
munificent
ignominious
venerate
brook
24. Extreme poverty
ethnocentric
coterie
cachet
penury
25. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
dossier
penury
feckless
profligate
26. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
dissipate
munificent
toothsome
zeitgeist
27. To rot
foment
putrefy
nascent
evanescent
28. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
shibboleth
habeas corpus
bumptious
repartee
29. Without money - penniless
ruminate
impecunious
insouciant
maudlin
30. One who is continually breaking the law
acquit
sartorial
scofflaw
recalcitrant
31. To swing back and forth
oscillate
calumny
patina
secrete
32. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
malapropism
putrefy
diaspora
comport
33. To give off - to conceal
secrete
erudite
repartee
nascent
34. To deny - to speak or act against
byzantine
spelunker
libation
gainsay
35. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
vacuous
synergy
oeuvre
bandy
36. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
nepotism
abrogate
besmirch
vacuous
37. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
espy
mirthful
perquisite
implacable
38. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
synergy
veracious
juggernaut
petulant
39. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
penultimate
temerity
undulate
officious
40. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
assignation
juggernaut
vagary
implacable
41. To smile foolishly
simper
castigate
sturm and drang
dissipate
42. Being in a dying or decaying condition
fauna
lope
moribund
punctilious
43. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
arbiter
libation
reticent
cavil
44. To confuse - deceive
trice
sui generis
recondite
discomfit
45. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
oscillate
intransigent
flagellate
rarefied
46. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
perfunctory
palliate
rapprochement
fauna
47. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
ribald
mellifluous
effete
protean
48. Hostile - aggressive - savage
neophyte
lope
lassitude
truculent
49. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
nepotism
dilettante
doggerel
supercilious
50. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
apocryphal
clout
myopia
panegyric
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