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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. Someone who enjoys luxurious living
bon vivant
husbandry
apogee
surreptitious
2. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
undulate
ensconce
trice
obsequious
3. Wise - shrewd
diurnal
prurient
rout
sagacious
4. Lack of comforts - poverty - a state of being deprived
saturnine
privation
behemoth
ambulatory
5. A secret meeting - a tryst - or something assigned
implacable
sallow
assignation
belie
6. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
munificent
apoplexy
insouciant
clout
7. Hardworking - busy - diligent
comport
repartee
recalcitrant
assiduous
8. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
perspicacious
patina
stalwart
calumny
9. Boldness - rashness - audacity
neophyte
temerity
prescient
wastrel
10. Hermit-like - self-denial - austere
leitmotif
ascetic
gird
philistine
11. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
verdant
discomfit
aggrieve
12. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
gestalt
sturm and drang
vitriolic
belie
13. Hot-tempered - cranky
plebeian
irascible
diaspora
abstinence
14. To become rigid - to become set in one's ways
obsequious
ossify
somnolent
acquit
15. Wild - like a wild animal - savage
feral
espy
somnolent
sycophant
16. Cheerful readiness - liveliness or eagerness
prescient
alacrity
rapprochement
opus
17. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
patois
nascent
perfidious
cogitate
18. To leave quickly and secretively
nihilism
abscond
striated
fauna
19. Covered with green plants - leafy
castigate
assignation
verdant
byzantine
20. Truthful - honest
assiduous
protean
veracious
doff
21. Favorable to health
assignation
ascetic
ambulatory
salubrious
22. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
moribund
elliptical
encomium
interregnum
23. To make uneasy
disquiet
opprobrious
nihilism
trice
24. State of rest or inactivity
erudite
puissance
quiescence
dichotomy
25. Dishonest - deceitful
machination
mendacious
nonplus
diurnal
26. To compromise - to draw something out in order to gain time
temporize
placebo
prevaricate
perfunctory
27. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
doff
nihilism
vicarious
libidinous
28. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
capricious
inchoate
vicarious
zeitgeist
29. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
vacuous
petulant
prevaricate
striated
30. To honor - to worship - to respect
accouterments
venerate
spelunker
exigent
31. To muse upon
concomitant
putrefy
onus
ruminate
32. Stingy - small in a mean way
venerate
niggardly
repartee
lassitude
33. To command or urge solemnly and earnestly
disquiet
belie
adjure
recidivism
34. To toss back and forth - to exchange - to use in a glib way
peregrination
oeuvre
adumbrate
bandy
35. Shrewd - astute - showing strong powers of discernment
probity
perspicacious
malapropism
discomfit
36. Having a nice - agreeable - melodious sound
dulcet
apoplexy
propinquity
nonplus
37. Lending money at a high interest rate
panegyric
usury
rife
protean
38. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
encomium
pallid
supercilious
titular
39. To impede - restrain - hamper
matriculate
effete
fetter
comport
40. Harmful
penury
petulant
deleterious
dilettante
41. To whip - or to punish as if by whipping
flagellate
abeyance
hoary
byzantine
42. Squalid - a slovenly woman
slatternly
punctilious
trice
disquiet
43. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
behemoth
sally
perquisite
elan
44. Facade - coating - outward appearance
ethnocentric
recalcitrant
veneer
garrulous
45. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
brook
repartee
myopia
onus
46. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
synergy
determinism
espy
mercurial
47. Extreme poverty
veracious
penury
synergy
zeitgeist
48. A beginner - a novice
neophyte
prowess
sylvan
peregrination
49. Corrosive - biting - bitterly scathing
cogitate
onerous
vitriolic
abrogate
50. To stain or soil (commonly as to reputation)
ensconce
besmirch
dichotomy
zaftig