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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. Animals
bandy
inchoate
fauna
ignominious
2. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
sinuous
adumbrate
husbandry
3. Oval - obscure in expression
perspicacious
dilettante
elliptical
implacable
4. Corrupt - degenerate - wildly extravagant
profligate
sagacious
portent
propinquity
5. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
elliptical
nirvana
noisome
omnivorous
6. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
paradigm
simper
levee
apocryphal
7. A moment - a short period of time
maudlin
histrionic
trice
perfidious
8. Honesty - uprightness
cogitate
perorate
probity
supercilious
9. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
bandy
bowdlerize
largess
10. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
flagellate
dissipate
undulate
wont
11. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
junta
flagellate
redoubtable
perorate
12. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
alchemy
ennui
panegyric
13. In title only
titular
prescient
nabob
hoary
14. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
martinet
pallid
prepossess
flagellate
15. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
scotch
doggerel
bivouac
perquisite
16. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
conflagration
irascible
apocryphal
bandy
17. A cave explorer
plebeian
spelunker
perspicacious
cavil
18. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
enervate
noisome
verdant
besmirch
19. Overly sentimental
perspicacious
nepotism
iniquitous
maudlin
20. A judge - one who decides
scotch
titular
sally
arbiter
21. A file of documents - letters and records
dossier
maudlin
foment
hoary
22. Award or honor - high praise
facetious
accolade
rife
inchoate
23. Influence - a forceful blow
sylvan
clout
sally
adumbrate
24. Division into two often contradictory parts
parsimonious
dichotomy
calumny
mendacious
25. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
plebeian
vacuous
nihilism
perfunctory
26. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
onerous
contentious
concomitant
undulate
27. Nearsightedness - lacking foresight
vagary
hidebound
foment
myopia
28. Turmoil
opprobrious
sturm and drang
fauna
compunction
29. Favorable to health
flagellate
opus
ascetic
salubrious
30. Bitingly sarcastic - incisive - caustic in manner
mercurial
assiduous
iniquitous
mordant
31. Facade - coating - outward appearance
doggerel
veneer
halitosis
tendentious
32. Marked with thin lines or grooves
phantasm
cabal
striated
syllogism
33. A dominant or recurring theme
gainsay
leitmotif
apocryphal
petulant
34. To tolerate - to put up with something
secrete
gird
phlegmatic
brook
35. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
ossify
nirvana
piquant
spate
36. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
pluralism
insouciant
oeuvre
anomie
37. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
nepotism
bumptious
simper
castigate
38. Surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation - a superficial covering or exterior
patina
covet
antipodal
garrulous
39. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
puissance
intransigent
sui generis
savant
40. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
nabob
spelunker
junta
anathema
41. Faithless - untrustworthy
lope
ancillary
perfunctory
perfidious
42. To rot
remuneration
chicanery
putrefy
macerate
43. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
verdant
sangfroid
determinism
enervate
44. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
dilettante
syllogism
gesticulate
peregrination
45. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
zeitgeist
nascent
byzantine
piquant
46. All knowing - infinite awareness
abstruse
omniscient
assignation
simper
47. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
phlegmatic
petulant
adumbrate
penury
48. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
protean
apoplexy
belie
niggardly
49. Deception or trickery
deleterious
sine qua non
comport
chicanery
50. A system of natural healing
sally
homeopathy
juggernaut
bowdlerize