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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. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
fey
vicarious
protean
saturnine
2. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
prevaricate
recondite
encomium
histrionic
3. To run counter to - to show something as false
cogitate
belie
macerate
spelunker
4. A disaster or violent breakdown
viscosity
mellifluous
debacle
elan
5. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
truculent
mellifluous
largess
palliate
6. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
cataclysm
capricious
encomium
placebo
7. Argumentative over a point - quarrelsome
arbiter
vagary
contentious
ameliorate
8. Squalid - a slovenly woman
panacea
determinism
slatternly
akimbo
9. Advancing a point of view - biased
lassitude
tendentious
sine qua non
apostasy
10. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
juggernaut
pregnant
dilettante
stalwart
11. Merry - gleeful
timorous
mirthful
recondite
opus
12. Hardworking - busy - diligent
ennui
maudlin
assiduous
junta
13. State of rest or inactivity
quiescence
comport
nonplus
venerate
14. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
interregnum
besmirch
dissipate
wont
15. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
lassitude
junta
apogee
perfunctory
16. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
supercilious
nabob
petulant
ignominious
17. Forest-like - wooded
sylvan
bivouac
sui generis
behemoth
18. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
viscosity
sine qua non
anathema
erudite
19. A large - disastrous fire
apostasy
calumny
conflagration
bon vivant
20. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
implacable
diaspora
veneer
gestalt
21. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
coterie
mendacious
chary
22. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
conflagration
byzantine
philistine
facetious
23. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
gestalt
prurient
plebeian
gesticulate
24. Uncompromising - stubborn
intransigent
sagacious
itinerant
slatternly
25. Meticulously attentive to detail - exacting
apogee
punctilious
nepotism
habeas corpus
26. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
nascent
cavil
munificent
patina
27. Accompanying - attending - going along with
bivouac
spate
fusillade
concomitant
28. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
apostasy
perspicacious
fauna
deleterious
29. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
synergy
prevaricate
placebo
abscond
30. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
shibboleth
slatternly
reticent
antipodal
31. Vigor - distinctive - elegant style
cachet
ersatz
elan
abeyance
32. To rip up by the roots - to abolish - to annihilate
diaspora
recidivism
extirpate
perfidious
33. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
nirvana
assignation
mirthful
facetious
34. To confuse - deceive
discomfit
fey
reticent
provenance
35. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
nihilism
pregnant
recidivism
perquisite
36. Relating to dress or fashion
comport
rubric
sartorial
puissance
37. A sudden outburst
garrulous
macerate
spate
raffish
38. A model or example
neophyte
paradigm
penury
chicanery
39. To enroll - most particularly in college
juggernaut
penury
matriculate
bilious
40. Winding - having many curves
sinuous
bon vivant
rout
debacle
41. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
paradigm
compunction
plebeian
patois
42. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
wizened
akimbo
cachet
gerrymander
43. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
malapropism
assiduous
apocryphal
evanescent
44. To honor - to worship - to respect
venerate
gamin
apostasy
palliate
45. Disgraceful and dishonorable
reprobate
neophyte
ignominious
nonplus
46. To bewilder - to puzzle
sangfroid
arbiter
recondite
nonplus
47. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
histrionic
apogee
portent
enervate
48. Nearness in place or time - kinship
spate
slatternly
propinquity
paradigm
49. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
prepossess
reprobate
nonplus
bon vivant
50. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
slatternly
ancillary
chimerical
hoary