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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
patois
secrete
cataclysm
phantasm
2. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
protean
debacle
mellifluous
privation
3. Without money - penniless
saturnine
dilettante
prescient
impecunious
4. To repeal - to set aside - to nullify
abrogate
sally
levee
belie
5. To honor - to worship - to respect
leitmotif
venerate
lassitude
antipodal
6. A cave explorer
gestalt
penury
spelunker
wont
7. To tolerate - to put up with something
sycophant
brook
pluralism
interregnum
8. Damning - extremely critical - disgraceful
opprobrious
decimate
sine qua non
rapprochement
9. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
evanescent
discomfit
vainglorious
assignation
10. The judicious use of resources - livestock farming
discomfit
husbandry
profligate
perfunctory
11. Lofty praise - eulogistic writing
panegyric
chary
secrete
raffish
12. A sudden outburst
portent
apoplexy
malapropism
spate
13. To swing back and forth
slatternly
oscillate
scofflaw
aegis
14. Bad breath
perquisite
patois
halitosis
fusillade
15. Lacking responsibility - ineffective
extirpate
libidinous
feckless
ignominious
16. To make better - to ease or improve
protean
onerous
rapprochement
ameliorate
17. A file of documents - letters and records
prowess
dossier
mellifluous
contentious
18. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
panegyric
muckrake
tony
punctilious
19. Generous
munificent
extirpate
paradigm
noisome
20. A weariness - listlessness - a state of lethargy
cavil
bumptious
redoubtable
lassitude
21. Burden - blame - obligation
covet
elan
titular
onus
22. Uncompromising - stubborn
spelunker
undulate
intransigent
conflagration
23. To run at a steady - easy pace
aegis
lope
fecund
impugn
24. A moment - a short period of time
diurnal
obsequious
abstruse
trice
25. Just beginning - not organized or orderly - incomplete
inchoate
castigate
sententious
anathema
26. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
reticent
ambulatory
spelunker
inveterate
27. To make a long - formal speech - to sum up a speech
perorate
evanescent
onerous
lassitude
28. The belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group
fey
ethnocentric
arbiter
espy
29. An inferior substitute
sycophant
ersatz
panegyric
foment
30. A society in which distinct groups function together - but retain their identities
wont
pluralism
feckless
perorate
31. Moving from place to place
chimerical
itinerant
circumlocution
scotch
32. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
raffish
capricious
cogitate
sui generis
33. Hostile - aggressive - savage
discomfit
truculent
ethnocentric
raffish
34. To expose political misconduct
muckrake
depredate
repartee
undulate
35. Otherworldly - magical - 'touched'
fey
onerous
reprobate
synergy
36. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
vitriolic
viscosity
zephyr
covet
37. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
patois
secrete
cogitate
contentious
38. Exhausted - lost vitality - overrefined
nepotism
effete
supercilious
largess
39. Stingy
zaftig
abeyance
impervious
parsimonious
40. To deviate from the truth
exemplar
fecund
prevaricate
phlegmatic
41. Dishonest - deceitful
husbandry
mendacious
penultimate
bathos
42. A beginner - a novice
cataclysm
neophyte
rife
implacable
43. To punish - chastise - criticize severely
dichotomy
vitriolic
elan
castigate
44. Not capable of being appeased or mollified
zephyr
implacable
juggernaut
bacchanal
45. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
deleterious
rife
cabal
bathos
46. Formidable - fearsome - deserving of respect
striated
reprobate
redoubtable
profligate
47. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
husbandry
nirvana
bumptious
vitriolic
48. Scholarly - deeply learned - well read
ambulatory
mordant
striated
erudite
49. Deception or trickery
umbrage
surreptitious
chicanery
scotch
50. Sneaky - secret
surreptitious
vicarious
prepossess
dulcet