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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. A moment - a short period of time
nascent
abscond
trice
ensconce
2. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
recondite
acquit
exemplar
pluralism
3. To weaken - to sap the strength
irascible
plebeian
enervate
rife
4. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
viscosity
stalwart
privation
shibboleth
5. A gentle breeze
spate
sylvan
zephyr
reticent
6. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
panegyric
macerate
bandy
mellifluous
7. A massive - unstoppable object
juggernaut
penury
sycophant
mordant
8. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
bathos
ennui
libation
largess
9. 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
determinism
puissance
gestalt
diaspora
10. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
vagary
toothsome
cavil
gamin
11. Custom - habit
wont
scotch
adumbrate
vicarious
12. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
punctilious
neophyte
ossify
iniquitous
13. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
sartorial
recalcitrant
sinuous
concomitant
14. Influence - a forceful blow
punctilious
machination
husbandry
clout
15. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
oeuvre
bandy
savant
abeyance
16. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
rout
niggardly
philistine
vicarious
17. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
officious
erudite
doggerel
forswear
18. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
myopia
perquisite
ossify
descry
19. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
ossify
tony
quiescence
insouciant
20. Turmoil
sturm and drang
iniquitous
abscond
recalcitrant
21. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
descry
sententious
accolade
salubrious
22. To enroll - most particularly in college
rife
patois
matriculate
contentious
23. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
omniscient
dissipate
oeuvre
abrogate
24. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
clout
protean
pluralism
cataclysm
25. Having foresight
officious
prescient
descry
piquant
26. A sudden outburst
protean
nirvana
implacable
spate
27. A judge - one who decides
arbiter
recalcitrant
castigate
facetious
28. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
irascible
intransigent
prurient
supercilious
29. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
contentious
hidebound
flagellate
gamin
30. To expose political misconduct
flagellate
muckrake
desiccate
gestalt
31. To wish for with envy
paradigm
enervate
covet
malapropism
32. Urgent - demands prompt action
akimbo
rife
perspicacious
exigent
33. In title only
libation
sturm and drang
titular
fauna
34. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
machination
exemplar
contentious
umbrage
35. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
macerate
ensconce
perorate
sycophant
36. A rapid outburst - spray of gunfire
gestalt
mendacious
vicarious
fusillade
37. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
libation
contentious
ethnocentric
comport
38. One who is continually breaking the law
pluralism
scofflaw
perorate
accouterments
39. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
chicanery
halitosis
viscosity
40. A procession - a group of attendants
inveterate
cortege
encomium
ambulatory
41. Stubborn
desiccate
inveterate
tony
obdurate
42. Sweetly flowing
discomfit
dulcet
propinquity
mellifluous
43. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
concomitant
espy
sagacious
niggardly
44. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
placebo
abrogate
reticent
somnolent
45. A large - disastrous fire
rife
spate
conflagration
protean
46. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
dilettante
habeas corpus
onus
tony
47. Pungent - charmingly provocative
rubric
supercilious
fauna
piquant
48. The mood or spirit of the times
fecund
abstinence
zeitgeist
extirpate
49. An illegal act especially by a public official
nepotism
discomfit
compunction
malfeasance
50. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
sinuous
philistine
feral
cortege