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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.
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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. Something that is an essential condition of
libation
provenance
cachet
sine qua non
2. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
discomfit
cataclysm
panacea
3. Award or honor - high praise
assignation
histrionic
gestalt
accolade
4. A moment - a short period of time
trice
largess
adjure
encomium
5. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
histrionic
antipodal
implacable
mendacious
6. 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
diaspora
calumny
maudlin
usury
7. Relating to dress or fashion
evanescent
sartorial
apogee
ruminate
8. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
reprobate
extirpate
histrionic
vicarious
9. Being in a dying or decaying condition
synergy
interregnum
facetious
moribund
10. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
cachet
feckless
forswear
tony
11. Hardworking - busy - diligent
philistine
assiduous
bon vivant
raffish
12. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
oscillate
doggerel
diurnal
prurient
13. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
obsequious
nonplus
cabal
opprobrious
14. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
truculent
abrogate
redoubtable
cabal
15. A beginner - a novice
covet
privation
profligate
neophyte
16. Faithless - untrustworthy
omniscient
obsequious
bacchanal
perfidious
17. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
muckrake
officious
veneer
ribald
18. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
diurnal
machination
moribund
sylvan
19. The point at which an orbiting object is farthest from what is being orbited - or the apex of something
halitosis
paradigm
temporize
apogee
20. Hot-tempered - cranky
abscond
bathos
irascible
libation
21. Power - strength
zaftig
puissance
phlegmatic
opus
22. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
chimerical
bandy
foment
libidinous
23. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
recalcitrant
bilious
toothsome
matriculate
24. Bad breath
pregnant
petulant
halitosis
raffish
25. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
junta
philistine
panegyric
sturm and drang
26. To smile foolishly
chary
simper
oscillate
effete
27. To deviate from the truth
prevaricate
diurnal
bilious
noisome
28. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
rife
encomium
bathos
draconian
29. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
niggardly
abstinence
veracious
panegyric
30. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
itinerant
recondite
besmirch
ameliorate
31. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
implacable
husbandry
nirvana
belie
32. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
viscosity
leitmotif
junta
noisome
33. Wildly fanciful - absurd
chimerical
desiccate
sententious
implacable
34. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
interregnum
deleterious
aggrieve
inchoate
35. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
patois
perorate
calumny
facetious
36. Able to walk or move about
ambulatory
supercilious
moribund
clout
37. A creative work - musical composition
opus
ancillary
panegyric
remuneration
38. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
aggrieve
apogee
interregnum
abstruse
39. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
stalwart
sine qua non
cabal
decimate
40. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
bivouac
anathema
noisome
gerrymander
41. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
effete
apoplexy
inchoate
sui generis
42. Division into two often contradictory parts
neophyte
dichotomy
mellifluous
bacchanal
43. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
rout
doggerel
ascetic
calumny
44. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
temerity
belie
doggerel
macerate
45. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
scotch
titular
aggrieve
insouciant
46. A temporary encampment
bivouac
placebo
erudite
peregrination
47. To dry out
patina
desiccate
bon vivant
bacchanal
48. Occurring during the day - happens every day
venerate
diurnal
mercurial
lassitude
49. Retract - renounce or recant
abstinence
compunction
forswear
redoubtable
50. Native - belonging to a specific region
endemic
perfunctory
sally
obdurate