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SAT Word Groups
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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. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
limpid
inimical
facetious
harrangue
2. Weaken: elminate
antecede
obviate
renege
baleful
3. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
peremptory
Novitiate
mundane
opprobrium
4. Falsehood; incorrect
penultimate
erroneous
dither
lackadaisical
5. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
bereave
loquacious
turgid
mordacious
6. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
eon
acrimonious
Inchoate
curmudgeon
7. Pacify/Satisfy
doleful
appease
jocular
dogmatic
8. Lazy/ Sluggish:
lackadaisical
lethargic
sincere
injurious
9. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
anachronism
abash
calmuny
garrulous
10. Sorrow
remonstrate
lament
canard
occlued
11. Bold:fearless
carom
anomalous
dauntless
trenchant
12. Family: marriage within a social tribe
ambulatory
strident
endogamous
anachronism
13. Bad Mood: Annoyance
Umbrage
injurious
limpid
aberration
14. Boring: lack of originality
jocular
laconic
banal
aspersion
15. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
forlorn
penurious
redress
talisman
16. Wandering
dissemble
forage
curt
quintessence
17. Time/Duration/Order
specious
orifice
temporal
arcane
18. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
fallacious
vitriolic
gibe
Headlong
19. Embarrass: slight flaw
obloquy
taciturn
foible
tendentious
20. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
Petulant
obviate
specious
abstain
21. Time/Duration/Order; indefinetly lon period of time
eon
imperious
flippant
strident
22. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
turbid
Proselyte
Petulant
careen
23. Forgive:
Umbrage
redress
slake
odious
24. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
clement
calmuny
credulous
labyrinth
25. Easy to understand: clear
magnanimous
abhorrence
lucid
mordacious
26. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
veracious
renege
specious
raucous
27. Wisdom: instructive saying
auspicious
fetter
apothegm
retrograde
28. Easy to understand
eloquent
intractable
guile
imperious
29. Overblown/ Wordy
turgid
verbose
knell
nascent
30. Falsehood: tellind lies
pedestrian
intractable
limpid
mendacious/ mendacity
31. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
mordant
duplicity
belabor
conjugal
32. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
Precipiate
progenitor
dolorous
undermine
33. Forgive: free from guilt
absolve
avaricious
gibe
encumber
34. Forgive: to clear
stultify
baleful
vindicate
remonstrate
35. Nag: to plead
remonstrate
antithetic
periphrastic
demur
36. Falsehood: deception
Curtail
capricious
adulterate
chicanery
37. Death/ Mourning: mournful
ambiguous
dolorous
melodious
defunct
38. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
progenitor
contrition
esoteric
caustic
39. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
dissemble
perspicacious
harmonious
Dudgeon
40. Walking About
ambulatory
serrated
diffidence
precursor
41. Gaps/Openings: reduction
baleful
pettish
abatement
obviate
42. Assist-A person or thing that acts as chief support
rebarbative
demise
Mainstay
fallacious
43. Carousal: obscene
Mordant
ascertain
inhibit
salacious
44. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
vacillate
rebuke
Callow
factitious
45. Poor: having no money
augur
impecunious
interjustice
Proselyte
46. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
riposte
recreant
iconoclast
fervid
47. Walking About
extol
peripatetic
euphonious
hiatus
48. Nag: repeatedly than necessary
chicanery
elegiac
awry
belabor
49. Diffcult ot understand
compendious
sententious
equivocate
obscure
50. Truth
hinder
chortle
indisputable
sooth