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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. Displeasure or resentment - shade
accouterments
gerrymander
acquit
umbrage
2. Talkative
garrulous
nonplus
repartee
contentious
3. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
cabal
opus
implacable
bandy
4. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
stalwart
perorate
juggernaut
adumbrate
5. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
effete
nihilism
gainsay
apoplexy
6. A remedy that cures everything
timorous
accouterments
panacea
portent
7. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
contentious
antipodal
imbroglio
sangfroid
8. To swing back and forth
recondite
oscillate
disquiet
sturm and drang
9. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
gesticulate
gestalt
perquisite
punctilious
10. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
bumptious
debacle
sturm and drang
antipodal
11. Fawning - subservient - servile
obsequious
tendentious
accouterments
palliate
12. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
imbroglio
peregrination
fecund
provenance
13. Having foresight
anathema
adjure
fecund
prescient
14. Native - belonging to a specific region
endemic
conflagration
byzantine
enervate
15. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
piquant
cortege
penury
16. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
recidivism
inchoate
comport
malfeasance
17. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
aegis
sallow
dichotomy
supercilious
18. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
espy
synergy
ennui
wastrel
19. Vulgar or indecent language
insouciant
facetious
ribald
apocryphal
20. To enroll - most particularly in college
homeopathy
matriculate
apostasy
portent
21. All knowing - infinite awareness
sturm and drang
sine qua non
conflagration
omniscient
22. Accompanying - attending - going along with
adumbrate
concomitant
histrionic
clout
23. To behave
iniquitous
comport
desiccate
cabal
24. Wildly fanciful - absurd
assiduous
dulcet
piquant
chimerical
25. Stingy
savant
chimerical
lope
parsimonious
26. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
wastrel
levee
arbiter
imbroglio
27. Generous
munificent
opus
panacea
iniquitous
28. Power - strength
impecunious
sinuous
ersatz
puissance
29. Hardworking - busy - diligent
assiduous
savant
bacchanal
onerous
30. Drowsy - sleepy
scofflaw
somnolent
assignation
doff
31. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
compunction
habeas corpus
circumlocution
cataclysm
32. Heading - title - category
rubric
lassitude
propinquity
habeas corpus
33. A creative work - musical composition
flagellate
panegyric
malapropism
opus
34. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
cortege
disquiet
noisome
akimbo
35. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
bandy
byzantine
arbiter
insouciant
36. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
veracious
titular
reticent
fey
37. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
histrionic
hidebound
fusillade
cachet
38. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
desiccate
mercurial
umbrage
maudlin
39. Something that is enormous - or monstrous in size and power
savant
secrete
behemoth
anathema
40. Without money - penniless
miasma
impecunious
gerrymander
ethnocentric
41. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
penultimate
zeitgeist
cataclysm
prowess
42. To kill or destroy a large part of
opprobrious
mordant
decimate
imbroglio
43. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
macerate
chimerical
rubric
veneer
44. Empty - lacking intelligence
vacuous
dichotomy
scotch
implacable
45. A drunken reveler or orgy
recidivism
bacchanal
scotch
probity
46. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
ribald
recalcitrant
irascible
nascent
47. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
implacable
sagacious
perorate
48. Stubborn
alchemy
obdurate
halitosis
capricious
49. Being in a dying or decaying condition
milieu
moribund
sally
redoubtable
50. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
ersatz
inveterate
bumptious
prevaricate