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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. Origin - source - proof of past ownership
opprobrious
plebeian
nonplus
provenance
2. Whimsical - fanciful - impulsive
malfeasance
capricious
bandy
besmirch
3. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
conflagration
decimate
exigent
4. Burdensome - oppressive - troublesome
malapropism
husbandry
fey
onerous
5. Scheming activity for an evil purpose
sartorial
adumbrate
zeitgeist
machination
6. Restrained - reluctant - uncommunicative
anathema
habeas corpus
temporize
reticent
7. Humorous - joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
officious
propinquity
facetious
assiduous
8. To bewilder - to puzzle
nonplus
vagary
histrionic
circumlocution
9. A quick - witty reply - spirited conversation
repartee
somnolent
ancillary
verdant
10. An omen - a sign of something coming - a foreshadowing
alchemy
gerrymander
portent
decimate
11. A drunken reveler or orgy
spelunker
ancillary
bacchanal
veracious
12. To cause to be preoccupied - to influence - positively - in advance
hidebound
bumptious
prepossess
cavil
13. Truthful - honest
veracious
impugn
sturm and drang
neophyte
14. To kill or destroy a large part of
decimate
phlegmatic
martinet
adjure
15. An order for a prisoner to stand before a judge to determine the legality of his sentence
habeas corpus
descry
supercilious
ethnocentric
16. Unwavering - robust - sturdily built
perorate
salubrious
debacle
stalwart
17. To ponder over - to mediate - to think
cogitate
rarefied
apogee
saturnine
18. To put an end to
alchemy
recidivism
moribund
scotch
19. Ill-tempered - cranky - angry
histrionic
covet
bilious
obdurate
20. Harmful - unwholesome - stinking - putrid
compunction
hidebound
noisome
munificent
21. A sickly - greenish-yellow tone
sallow
sangfroid
stalwart
punctilious
22. An excellent model - a typical example
aggrieve
exemplar
prurient
fauna
23. Advancing a point of view - biased
tendentious
cataclysm
protean
fey
24. State of rest or inactivity
quiescence
intransigent
ruminate
redoubtable
25. A structure - whose parts cannot stand alone
homeopathy
scofflaw
brook
gestalt
26. Habitual - deeply rooted or established
undulate
foment
placebo
inveterate
27. To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies - to ease without curing
nirvana
palliate
toothsome
libidinous
28. Something or someone loathed or intensely disliked
forswear
hidebound
temerity
anathema
29. The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word indended
plebeian
sally
malapropism
bowdlerize
30. Instability caused by an erosion of values or lack of purpose
penury
anomie
fauna
moribund
31. Unnecessarily helpful - meddlesome - interfering
nihilism
oeuvre
usury
officious
32. Acting for another - sharing in an experience of another through the imagination
toothsome
espy
prevaricate
vicarious
33. A generous giving of gifts - philanthropy
cachet
zaftig
largess
prepossess
34. To leave quickly and secretively
penury
chicanery
enervate
abscond
35. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
maudlin
prevaricate
rout
muckrake
36. To run at a steady - easy pace
vagary
impugn
lope
gestalt
37. Without money - penniless
dissipate
impecunious
raffish
toothsome
38. Coming into existence - being born
nascent
habeas corpus
tony
portent
39. To discern - to see something - to catch sight of
rapprochement
moribund
abrogate
descry
40. Widespread - abounding - occurring frequently
cabal
portent
contentious
rife
41. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
abeyance
obdurate
tony
determinism
42. Bad breath
sine qua non
plebeian
apogee
halitosis
43. Careless - unenthusiastic - done merely as duty
zaftig
histrionic
bowdlerize
perfunctory
44. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
calumny
juggernaut
decimate
miasma
45. Heading - title - category
perspicacious
abeyance
rubric
encomium
46. Sweetly flowing
onus
mellifluous
perfidious
truculent
47. An apparition - phantom
phantasm
reticent
mordant
gerrymander
48. Readily assuming different shapes or characters
mendacious
protean
redoubtable
husbandry
49. Moving from place to place
itinerant
sartorial
malapropism
antipodal
50. Cranky - ill tempered - irritable - peevish
disquiet
covet
wastrel
petulant