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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. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
despotic
antedate
penultimate
anatagonism
2. Disgusting/Offensive:
dissemble
noisome
amulet
cryptic
3. Luck: desirable
torpid
optimum
hegemonic
aberration
4. Nag: to urge
Pique
gaucherie
exhort
turgid
5. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
retrograde
revile
inscrutable
demise
6. Forgive:
redress
trepidation
prognosticate
scathing
7. Carousal: excessive indulgence
fulsome
debauchery
fissure
sojourn
8. Luck: lucky
auspicious
limpid
trepidation
absolve
9. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
caustic
magnanimous
enjoin
iconoclast
10. Denying of self:
palliate
canard
abatement
stoic
11. Prevent/Obstruct
providental
fortnight
curmudgeon
impede
12. Luck: fortunate
bombastic
deleterious
providental
ingenuous
13. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
meander
rent
torpid
ardor/ ardent
14. Falsehood: crafty deception
admonish
Inchoate
guile
acrimonious
15. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
Neophyte
prognosticate
ingenuous
elegiac
16. Truth
authoritarian
lugubrious
sincere
Proselyte
17. Stubborn:
defunct
equivocate
intractable
serrated
18. Harmful
augur
erudite
ersatz
injurious
19. Beginning/Young: procreate
aspersion
recreant
truculent
Engender
20. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
odium
epigram
prosaic
defamation
21. Wisdom: trite saying
prevaricate
simulated
bromide
laud/laudatory
22. Forgive: make amends
salacious
counterpart
expiate
consanguine
23. Hesitate:
oscillate
impede
compunction
dictum
24. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
eulogize
belittle
encomium
truism
25. Equal: fair
equity
satiate
circumvent
aphorism
26. Changing quickly: changeable
vindicate
mercurial
hiatus
equity
27. Funny: waggish; humorous
quotidian
objurgate
droll
denounce
28. Sorrow
anomaly
deleterious
vindicate
lament
29. Hostile: cruel
tendentious
remission
descry
truculent
30. Copy: exact copy
facsimile
caustic
fey
peripatetic
31. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
cacophony
vacillate
flippant
32. Assist: State of being sustained
intransigent
sordid
appease
Sustenance
33. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
cacophony
dissipated
conjugal
inhibit
34. Overblown/ Wordy:
dissemble
lugubrious
periphrastic
lament
35. Praise
fawn
ostensible
fallacious
careen
36. Wandering
expatiate
rent
diffidence
putrid
37. Investigate: to estimate value
altrustic
volatile
remission
appraise
38. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
obsitnate
trite
interregnum
malice
39. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
anomaly
intractable
impecunious
strident
40. Nag: find fault with uncertainty
cavil
factitious
minatory
Compendium
41. Terse: brief
imperious
pithy
turpitude
Mordant
42. Death/ Mourning: visible spirit
eloquent
cryptic
indolent
wraith
43. Funny
partisan
ludicrous
hackneyed
perfidy
44. Equal: fairness
slake
Advocate
equitable
chagrin
45. Copy: duplication
courageous
trepidation
propitiate
counterpart
46. Death/ Mourning: near death
limpid
moribound
despotic
penurious
47. Prevent/Obstruct
fortend
berate
nascent
miserly
48. Hesitate: vacillate
unstinting
dither
reprehend
quintessence
49. Terse
millennium
succinct
hinder
intransigent
50. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
prolix
opaque
esoteric
obviate