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SAT Word Power Harder
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Subjects
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sat
,
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. Stubborn
obdurate
discomfit
histrionic
propinquity
2. Overly sentimental
ethnocentric
maudlin
acquit
juggernaut
3. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
truculent
oeuvre
compunction
recidivism
4. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
garrulous
recidivism
saturnine
temerity
5. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
zephyr
concomitant
redoubtable
mercurial
6. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
interregnum
moribund
chicanery
perfunctory
7. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
abrogate
implacable
husbandry
dossier
8. Lustful - lascivious
brook
veracious
prevaricate
libidinous
9. Winding - having many curves
vitriolic
clout
chimerical
sinuous
10. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
bumptious
raffish
trice
philistine
11. Native - belonging to a specific region
fey
aggrieve
endemic
libation
12. All knowing - infinite awareness
chary
evanescent
omniscient
disquiet
13. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
rapprochement
cortege
viscosity
implacable
14. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
profligate
pallid
behemoth
matriculate
15. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
opprobrious
perspicacious
sinuous
perquisite
16. To take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
slatternly
doff
facetious
chimerical
17. A model or example
bilious
ennui
paradigm
imbroglio
18. To impede - restrain - hamper
zaftig
striated
fetter
cachet
19. A process of transformation that is seemingly magical
contentious
alchemy
temporize
extirpate
20. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
reprobate
habeas corpus
aggrieve
martinet
21. Marked with thin lines or grooves
striated
discomfit
endemic
facetious
22. Protection - patronage
aegis
repartee
raffish
sine qua non
23. Without money - penniless
insouciant
matriculate
verdant
impecunious
24. Evil - unjust
truculent
dulcet
iniquitous
determinism
25. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
munificent
zeitgeist
effete
descry
26. A judge - one who decides
largess
perspicacious
arbiter
mirthful
27. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
vacuous
protean
facetious
abrogate
28. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
verdant
zeitgeist
gerrymander
bumptious
29. To stir up - to incite
conflagration
foment
striated
garrulous
30. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
elan
conflagration
ancillary
recondite
31. To weaken - to sap the strength
facetious
ascetic
enervate
disquiet
32. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
paradigm
disquiet
reprobate
scotch
33. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
implacable
extirpate
hoary
ensconce
34. To invest with authority - to brace
gird
castigate
propinquity
plebeian
35. To make better - to ease or improve
palliate
savant
ameliorate
sinuous
36. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
halitosis
intransigent
sartorial
abrogate
37. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
dichotomy
muckrake
ascetic
saturnine
38. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
oscillate
provenance
reticent
omniscient
39. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
adumbrate
doff
rout
milieu
40. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
pregnant
iniquitous
temporize
inchoate
41. Oval - obscure in expression
elliptical
munificent
punctilious
rapprochement
42. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
vagary
facetious
panacea
cachet
43. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
obdurate
dilettante
punctilious
surreptitious
44. Stingy
nascent
gainsay
alchemy
parsimonious
45. Shriveled - withered
besmirch
vagary
spate
wizened
46. To gesture - especially when speaking
gesticulate
ersatz
propinquity
abrogate
47. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
accouterments
toothsome
husbandry
lassitude
48. Common - vulgar - low class
exigent
plebeian
diurnal
probity
49. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
discomfit
verdant
feral
slatternly
50. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
erudite
penury
byzantine
sententious