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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. Eating or absorbing everything - feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
propinquity
husbandry
slatternly
omnivorous
2. Coming into existence - being born
opprobrious
nascent
interregnum
homeopathy
3. A smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic subjects
philistine
debacle
decimate
prescient
4. Talkative
garrulous
macerate
tendentious
diurnal
5. Dishonest - deceitful
compunction
mendacious
veracious
savant
6. Oval - obscure in expression
sinuous
flagellate
elliptical
prescient
7. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
secrete
phlegmatic
bumptious
prevaricate
8. A work of art - the sum of an artist's work
perquisite
nirvana
oeuvre
ambulatory
9. To leave quickly and secretively
myopia
abscond
munificent
zeitgeist
10. To tolerate - to put up with something
lope
abscond
brook
nirvana
11. To divide into election districts to gain political advantage
irascible
endemic
impervious
gerrymander
12. A rushing attack - witty repartee - a brief excursion
iniquitous
sally
myopia
sententious
13. Slander - deliberate false statements
calumny
probity
imbroglio
diurnal
14. An inferior substitute
gerrymander
scofflaw
ersatz
prepossess
15. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
redoubtable
vicarious
sangfroid
pluralism
16. Award or honor - high praise
accolade
imbroglio
bathos
dossier
17. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
dossier
debacle
portent
timorous
18. Pungent - charmingly provocative
piquant
pluralism
junta
abeyance
19. Something that is an essential condition of
libidinous
sine qua non
paradigm
chary
20. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
parsimonious
hidebound
omniscient
rout
21. Overly dramatic - theatrical - deliberately affected
histrionic
neophyte
supercilious
abstinence
22. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
puissance
veneer
impugn
cavil
23. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
punctilious
concomitant
portent
repartee
24. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
cortege
junta
nascent
effete
25. Abandonment of a loyalty or religion
sturm and drang
apostasy
libidinous
noisome
26. Covered with green plants - leafy
leitmotif
ossify
verdant
spelunker
27. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
contentious
perfidious
gestalt
veracious
28. Native - belonging to a specific region
akimbo
anathema
endemic
largess
29. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
temporize
cortege
gainsay
libation
30. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
surreptitious
usury
gainsay
31. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
implacable
acquit
fetter
hoary
32. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
officious
ossify
abstruse
hidebound
33. To dry out
imbroglio
desiccate
malfeasance
gerrymander
34. Disgraceful and dishonorable
provenance
facetious
doggerel
ignominious
35. To prey upon - to plunder with violence if necessary
exigent
depredate
malapropism
decimate
36. To behave
sally
gird
comport
ribald
37. Situated on opposite sides of the earth - or being exactly opposite
timorous
phlegmatic
antipodal
gainsay
38. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
sallow
mordant
fey
penultimate
39. Shriveled - withered
libation
wizened
trice
simper
40. Hard to understand - abstruse - over one's head
scofflaw
capricious
veneer
recondite
41. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
comport
hoary
petulant
redoubtable
42. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
largess
malapropism
pregnant
undulate
43. A wealthy - influential person
nabob
abstruse
putrefy
matriculate
44. To swing back and forth
ersatz
oscillate
lassitude
zeitgeist
45. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
implacable
gesticulate
slatternly
anomie
46. Fawning - subservient - servile
vicarious
tendentious
obsequious
homeopathy
47. Wildly fanciful - absurd
chimerical
sententious
depredate
fetter
48. To run at a steady - easy pace
lope
slatternly
dossier
omnivorous
49. Extreme poverty
perorate
matriculate
trice
penury
50. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
clout
extirpate
perfunctory
disquiet