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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. To distress - to mistreat
remuneration
piquant
akimbo
aggrieve
2. Facade - coating - outward appearance
covet
veneer
sturm and drang
cabal
3. A wealthy - influential person
lope
nabob
intransigent
behemoth
4. Exceptional skill or strength - military valor
perfunctory
prepossess
elan
prowess
5. An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
levee
perfidious
synergy
zaftig
6. Slander - deliberate false statements
ignominious
calumny
cachet
doggerel
7. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
rife
iniquitous
munificent
perspicacious
8. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
chimerical
sycophant
zephyr
privation
9. Protection - patronage
aegis
perspicacious
determinism
repartee
10. A procession - a group of attendants
cortege
syllogism
bilious
wastrel
11. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
elliptical
provenance
striated
raffish
12. Pushy - conceited - noisily self-assertive
nihilism
bumptious
sui generis
malfeasance
13. To soften by soaking - to cause to waste away
sagacious
macerate
onerous
fauna
14. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
insouciant
palliate
bon vivant
ascetic
15. To suggest partly - to give a hint of things to come - to foreshadow vaguely
junta
adumbrate
officious
sallow
16. Favorable to health
apoplexy
bowdlerize
salubrious
spelunker
17. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
bivouac
malfeasance
protean
chicanery
18. Environment - surroundings
vitriolic
gainsay
patois
milieu
19. To smile foolishly
martinet
simper
piquant
reprobate
20. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
lassitude
libidinous
bilious
pluralism
21. To muse upon
espy
bumptious
ruminate
capricious
22. A dabbler - someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts)
panegyric
comport
palliate
dilettante
23. Drowsy - sleepy
cataclysm
junta
libation
somnolent
24. A re-establishment of good relations
rapprochement
exigent
piquant
bivouac
25. To weaken - to sap the strength
rapprochement
accolade
enervate
onus
26. Lacking color - wan
muckrake
protean
pallid
forswear
27. Oval - obscure in expression
umbrage
elliptical
vitriolic
prurient
28. To make better - to ease or improve
ameliorate
punctilious
protean
clout
29. Honesty - uprightness
opus
ruminate
capricious
probity
30. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
chary
plebeian
prepossess
sylvan
31. A massive - unstoppable object
synergy
penultimate
ethnocentric
juggernaut
32. To make uneasy
feckless
disquiet
ersatz
impugn
33. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
compunction
pregnant
cogitate
apostasy
34. Bad breath
sartorial
mendacious
spelunker
halitosis
35. To run at a steady - easy pace
evanescent
palliate
lope
ambulatory
36. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
stalwart
probity
pregnant
munificent
37. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
profligate
recalcitrant
mendacious
interregnum
38. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
dossier
ensconce
assignation
diurnal
39. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
bacchanal
spate
perquisite
accolade
40. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
viscosity
puissance
ennui
penury
41. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
matriculate
implacable
abstinence
petulant
42. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
aegis
antipodal
dulcet
niggardly
43. A street urchin - a slim girl with an impish charm
mellifluous
repartee
milieu
gamin
44. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
palliate
rubric
gesticulate
bivouac
45. To tolerate - to put up with something
nirvana
sinuous
brook
hidebound
46. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
bilious
bowdlerize
vitriolic
47. A flatterer - a self-serving yes-man
mordant
milieu
sycophant
mirthful
48. Lustful - lascivious
libidinous
opprobrious
supercilious
somnolent
49. Personal clothing - accessories - or equipment
cavil
accouterments
bathos
obsequious
50. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
ascetic
bon vivant
fey
vitriolic