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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. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
rapprochement
contentious
facetious
2. A procession - a group of attendants
halitosis
comport
prowess
cortege
3. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
vicarious
chary
penury
noisome
4. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
compunction
depredate
ensconce
vitriolic
5. Vulgar or indecent language
milieu
desiccate
sallow
ribald
6. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
zeitgeist
wizened
apogee
7. A scholar - a very knowledgeable person
savant
protean
gird
chary
8. To find not guilty - to conduct oneself
synergy
quiescence
acquit
syllogism
9. To make better - to ease or improve
abrogate
sententious
repartee
ameliorate
10. A stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain - becoming so angry as to be on the verge of exploding
assignation
sinuous
apoplexy
akimbo
11. Overly sentimental
maudlin
miasma
veracious
abstinence
12. Facade - coating - outward appearance
veneer
mendacious
surreptitious
zeitgeist
13. A form of logic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn - a process of deduction
trice
omnivorous
syllogism
levee
14. To run counter to - to show something as false
ennui
belie
panacea
draconian
15. To rot
fey
forswear
putrefy
contentious
16. Urgent - demands prompt action
chicanery
largess
exigent
adumbrate
17. To give off - to conceal
debacle
secrete
milieu
piquant
18. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
dichotomy
cachet
bandy
pluralism
19. Esoteric - interesting to only a few
vagary
abrogate
sallow
rarefied
20. State of rest or inactivity
rubric
sturm and drang
quiescence
brook
21. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
lope
palliate
impervious
besmirch
22. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
perfunctory
mordant
fey
comport
23. Boastful - pompous
patina
vainglorious
interregnum
perquisite
24. A dominant or recurring theme
capricious
scofflaw
leitmotif
adjure
25. A blissful - painless state - a supreme happiness according to Buddhism when the soul is no longer in need of purification of hatred - deceit - etc.
neophyte
slatternly
arbiter
nirvana
26. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
protean
trice
undulate
palliate
27. Stingy - small in a mean way
niggardly
capricious
halitosis
inchoate
28. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
cortege
miasma
perorate
insouciant
29. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
fey
adumbrate
profligate
bumptious
30. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
gird
chary
martinet
ethnocentric
31. Covered with green plants - leafy
exemplar
verdant
rapprochement
mirthful
32. Comic - sometimes crude - informal verse
doggerel
omnivorous
inchoate
vitriolic
33. Accompanying - attending - going along with
levee
encomium
pallid
concomitant
34. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
ethnocentric
maudlin
inchoate
ascetic
35. Tasty - sexually attractive - luscious
toothsome
pluralism
panegyric
feckless
36. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
halitosis
synergy
scofflaw
itinerant
37. Stingy
spate
debacle
perspicacious
parsimonious
38. A judge - one who decides
acquit
gestalt
arbiter
recalcitrant
39. To smile foolishly
assiduous
putrefy
simper
ambulatory
40. Preachy - pompous - using wise sayings excessively
arbiter
slatternly
opus
sententious
41. Boredom - listlessness - lack of interest
officious
undulate
ennui
petulant
42. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
recalcitrant
opprobrious
elan
oscillate
43. Common - vulgar - low class
adjure
plebeian
arbiter
repartee
44. To gesture - especially when speaking
clout
pallid
gesticulate
itinerant
45. Emotionally unpredictable - give to rapid changes in mood
onerous
mercurial
cavil
zaftig
46. Something that is an essential condition of
rapprochement
vitriolic
sine qua non
fauna
47. A remedy that cures everything
slatternly
panacea
vagary
nihilism
48. A eulogy or expression of high praise
encomium
repartee
ameliorate
perfidious
49. False - spurious - of doubtful origin
protean
chary
apocryphal
anathema
50. To dry out
dulcet
sally
desiccate
byzantine