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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. Payment - recompense
remuneration
diurnal
protean
bivouac
2. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
remuneration
imbroglio
tony
decimate
3. Turmoil
maudlin
rubric
halitosis
sturm and drang
4. Lending money at a high interest rate
capricious
somnolent
usury
arbiter
5. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
depredate
scotch
rife
ascetic
6. Nearness in place or time - kinship
impugn
propinquity
impervious
truculent
7. The act of repeating an offense
determinism
recidivism
munificent
concomitant
8. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
bowdlerize
putrefy
discomfit
patina
9. Wise - shrewd
sagacious
profligate
mercurial
libation
10. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
obsequious
machination
imbroglio
inveterate
11. To muse upon
doff
ruminate
sartorial
piquant
12. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
facetious
mendacious
phlegmatic
recidivism
13. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
homeopathy
salubrious
prowess
determinism
14. To behave
sententious
undulate
patina
comport
15. A remedy that cures everything
malapropism
bilious
penultimate
panacea
16. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sturm and drang
sallow
anomie
recidivism
17. A massive - unstoppable object
venerate
libidinous
juggernaut
redoubtable
18. To make better - to ease or improve
deleterious
ameliorate
protean
saturnine
19. All knowing - infinite awareness
omniscient
elliptical
anomie
chicanery
20. A beginner - a novice
noisome
fetter
neophyte
leitmotif
21. Protection - patronage
hidebound
apoplexy
alchemy
aegis
22. Empty - lacking intelligence
impecunious
ignominious
phantasm
vacuous
23. Award or honor - high praise
nepotism
acquit
accolade
malfeasance
24. Someone who wastes - a spendthrift
wastrel
spate
aggrieve
accouterments
25. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
sui generis
mellifluous
vicarious
secrete
26. To gesture - especially when speaking
abeyance
zeitgeist
gesticulate
tony
27. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
onerous
phlegmatic
perquisite
28. To tolerate - to put up with something
nepotism
matriculate
temporize
brook
29. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
philistine
macerate
compunction
myopia
30. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
remuneration
apoplexy
nihilism
cogitate
31. A creative work - musical composition
tendentious
opus
endemic
peregrination
32. A eulogy or expression of high praise
espy
encomium
belie
nonplus
33. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
akimbo
stalwart
timorous
anathema
34. A file of documents - letters and records
omniscient
dossier
clout
doggerel
35. Unique - of its own kind - in a class by itself
coterie
phantasm
perspicacious
sui generis
36. A temporary suspension of activity
wizened
malfeasance
simper
abeyance
37. Overly sentimental
ersatz
maudlin
behemoth
nepotism
38. To wish for with envy
bathos
omnivorous
vicarious
covet
39. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
sycophant
dossier
temerity
ruminate
40. Squalid - a slovenly woman
mercurial
dilettante
slatternly
ribald
41. Full-figured - plump
elliptical
petulant
zaftig
peregrination
42. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
sententious
supercilious
ensconce
gamin
43. Sneaky - secret
surreptitious
lassitude
perspicacious
spelunker
44. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
sententious
hidebound
omniscient
leitmotif
45. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
slatternly
decimate
castigate
somnolent
46. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
foment
perspicacious
coterie
47. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
junta
officious
remuneration
apostasy
48. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
profligate
onus
foment
privation
49. A temporary encampment
clout
privation
bivouac
encomium
50. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
deleterious
gestalt
assiduous
determinism