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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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. Generous
reticent
munificent
panegyric
placebo
2. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
mellifluous
sycophant
doff
3. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
vagary
paradigm
doggerel
effete
4. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
sally
sui generis
feckless
brook
5. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
opprobrious
ameliorate
vainglorious
officious
6. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
byzantine
spate
shibboleth
rubric
7. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
stalwart
patois
gamin
simper
8. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
perfunctory
impervious
temerity
9. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
sturm and drang
putrefy
garrulous
besmirch
10. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
gestalt
fauna
insouciant
exigent
11. Stingy
impecunious
profligate
concomitant
parsimonious
12. To make better - to ease or improve
ameliorate
depredate
elan
libation
13. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
sui generis
pluralism
ersatz
apostasy
14. To muse upon
ruminate
inchoate
omniscient
somnolent
15. A massive - unstoppable object
mendacious
juggernaut
elan
sally
16. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
histrionic
byzantine
ascetic
diaspora
17. Hardworking - busy - diligent
titular
abscond
wizened
assiduous
18. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
omnivorous
vainglorious
lope
bathos
19. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
ennui
striated
ameliorate
palliate
20. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
foment
redoubtable
intransigent
byzantine
21. To give off - to conceal
penury
parsimonious
bivouac
secrete
22. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
patina
dilettante
effete
cavil
23. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
noisome
anomie
acquit
flagellate
24. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
slatternly
alacrity
castigate
nascent
25. Without money - penniless
ossify
wizened
anomie
impecunious
26. Empty - lacking intelligence
disquiet
miasma
nabob
vacuous
27. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink - or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
miasma
sententious
recalcitrant
abstinence
28. To expose political misconduct
nascent
bowdlerize
ethnocentric
muckrake
29. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
ossify
simper
panacea
cortege
30. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
discomfit
encomium
prepossess
zephyr
31. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
pluralism
adjure
apoplexy
flagellate
32. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
parsimonious
ambulatory
impervious
espy
33. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
doggerel
repartee
obdurate
prowess
34. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
ribald
reprobate
remuneration
oeuvre
35. Lacking color - wan
pallid
viscosity
paradigm
malapropism
36. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
ancillary
apostasy
recondite
stalwart
37. Advancing a point of view - biased
dichotomy
feral
tendentious
ambulatory
38. A pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony - a drink
panegyric
erudite
rapprochement
libation
39. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
ameliorate
akimbo
anathema
nirvana
40. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
phantasm
bilious
chicanery
omnivorous
41. Stubborn
patois
exemplar
toothsome
obdurate
42. Hot-tempered - cranky
vagary
draconian
irascible
simper
43. An inferior substitute
opprobrious
histrionic
ersatz
propinquity
44. Relating to dress or fashion
repartee
impervious
covet
sartorial
45. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
vitriolic
moribund
recidivism
wizened
46. A beginner - a novice
conflagration
fusillade
neophyte
titular
47. Faithless - untrustworthy
reticent
gainsay
perfidious
coterie
48. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
temporize
ensconce
nepotism
petulant
49. A remedy that cures everything
bumptious
lope
debacle
panacea
50. A file of documents - letters and records
abrogate
sinuous
dossier
salubrious