Hard SAT Words - Group 8
Match Quiz
| Hard SAT Words - Group 8 | View Group Words |
pessimism 
1
 | a. suitable for drinking; drinkable |
| a. involving clever rogues or adventurers |
| n. belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess |
| n. one who has more than one spouse at a time |
picaresque
2
| a. being beyond normal course of nature; differing from natural |
| v. plan, arrange, or plot in advance; deliberate upon future action |
| a. involving clever rogues or adventurers |
| v. assume existence of; put forward, as for consideration or study; suggest |
plagiarism
3
| n. belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess |
| n. theft of another's ideas or writings passed off as original |
| v. move or walk heavily or laboriously; travel slowly but steadily |
| a. acting in advance to deal with an expected difficulty |
plagiarize
4
| v. determine, decide, or establish in advance; influence markedly |
| n. theft of another's ideas or writings passed off as original |
| a. being beyond normal course of nature; differing from natural |
| v. steal another's ideas and pass them off as one's own |
plenitude
5
| ad. continually; without ceasing; year after year |
| v. steal another's ideas and pass them off as one's own |
| n. dock; landing place; reinforced bank where ships are loaded or unloaded |
| n. abundance; completeness; ample amount or quantity |
plutocracy
6
| a. striking one object against another sharply |
| a. profoundly moving; touching; agreeably intense or stimulating |
| n. society or government ruled by wealthy class |
| v. disturb greatly; make uneasy or anxious; throw into great confusion |
posit
7
| n. abundance; completeness; ample amount or quantity |
| v. assume existence of; put forward, as for consideration or study; suggest |
| a. being beyond normal course of nature; differing from natural |
| a. at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive |
potable
8
| n. society or government ruled by wealthy class |
| a. suitable for drinking; drinkable |
| a. idealistic without regard to practicality |
| n. pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing |
premeditate
9
| v. plan, arrange, or plot in advance; deliberate upon future action |
| v. determine, decide, or establish in advance; influence markedly |
| v. extend out or project in space; stick out |
| a. expressed or expressible as a quantity; relating to measurement of quantity |
profligate
10
| n. state of deeply felt distress or sorrow; keenness of emotion |
| a. inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly; wildly immoral |
| n. storyteller; one who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit |
| n. act or process of branching out or dividing into branches; subdivision or branch |