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SAT Word Power Harder
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To break up - to squander - to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure
dissipate
diurnal
sui generis
elan
2. Jaunty - sporty - disreputable - vulgar - characterized by a careless unconventionality
remuneration
raffish
assignation
pregnant
3. Lascivious - have lustful thoughts or desires
prurient
muckrake
abeyance
veneer
4. Lustful - lascivious
somnolent
libidinous
ancillary
privation
5. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
nonplus
determinism
spate
obsequious
6. To behave
pallid
comport
tony
bowdlerize
7. Wildly fanciful - absurd
bowdlerize
implacable
perfidious
chimerical
8. To swing back and forth
dissipate
castigate
forswear
oscillate
9. Stingy - small in a mean way
mellifluous
niggardly
pluralism
accolade
10. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
compunction
patois
prowess
prescient
11. Calm - indifferent - not easily aroused
ribald
cavil
phlegmatic
gird
12. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
clout
assignation
forswear
quiescence
13. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
largess
vainglorious
noisome
acquit
14. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
ignominious
veracious
recalcitrant
besmirch
15. To muse upon
brook
parsimonious
ruminate
bacchanal
16. Winding - having many curves
itinerant
garrulous
sinuous
ignominious
17. A small group that rules a country after a coup d'etat
junta
coterie
rife
obdurate
18. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
determinism
insouciant
junta
malapropism
19. A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
vagary
viscosity
fusillade
toothsome
20. A temporary suspension of activity
mirthful
abeyance
exigent
foment
21. To invest with authority - to brace
accouterments
levee
plebeian
gird
22. Fashionable - trendy - aristocratic
ancillary
scofflaw
cabal
tony
23. Drowsy - sleepy
adumbrate
descry
perorate
somnolent
24. A file of documents - letters and records
disquiet
dossier
belie
capricious
25. Extremely intricate or complicated in structure
adumbrate
temporize
nepotism
byzantine
26. All knowing - infinite awareness
paradigm
tendentious
omniscient
protean
27. Wordy language - an indirect - roundabout expression
circumlocution
omniscient
accouterments
vicarious
28. Having one's hands in a bent position on the hips - or figuratively speaking - something slightly out of balance
ribald
akimbo
diaspora
scofflaw
29. Burden - blame - obligation
alacrity
onus
enervate
assignation
30. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
putrefy
opprobrious
patina
stalwart
31. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
reticent
sycophant
comport
phlegmatic
32. Bad breath
paradigm
junta
decimate
halitosis
33. A secret group of conspirators - a clique
cabal
nascent
fecund
bumptious
34. The combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone
apogee
synergy
rife
compunction
35. Fawning - subservient - servile
feral
obsequious
facetious
apoplexy
36. A disaster or violent breakdown
debacle
stalwart
temerity
homeopathy
37. Fertile - productive - fruitful
levee
verdant
oscillate
fecund
38. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
junta
palliate
feral
abeyance
39. Extreme poverty
penury
noisome
circumlocution
feral
40. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
perquisite
ensconce
ersatz
spate
41. Showing favoritism to friends or family - as in granting positions in jobs or politics
bowdlerize
anomie
apocryphal
nepotism
42. Truthful - honest
circumlocution
veracious
accouterments
bacchanal
43. Excessively rigid - dry and stiff - inflexible
hidebound
fey
sallow
anathema
44. A distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group - a slogan
dossier
comport
shibboleth
pallid
45. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
matriculate
descry
zephyr
ribald
46. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
alacrity
umbrage
machination
mendacious
47. Extraordinary composure in the face of danger
imbroglio
arbiter
sangfroid
nascent
48. Remorse - feeling uneasy after have done something
abscond
sylvan
compunction
antipodal
49. An expedition - wandering
zeitgeist
peregrination
prurient
sui generis
50. A transition from the illustrious to the commonplace - overdone pathos - triteness
ossify
bathos
interregnum
perfunctory
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