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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. Diffcult ot understand
carom
obscure
anomaly
prolix
2. Nasty
ascetic
courageous
gibe
noisome
3. Overblown/ Wordy:
harrangue
periphrastic
dogmatic
excoriate
4. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
contrition
prolix
aggrandize
prognosticate
5. Nag: find fault with uncertainty
cavil
auspice
largess
threnody
6. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
rhetoric
accolade
harrangue
antipathy
7. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
fatuous
prevaricate
malevolent
Advocate
8. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
elegy
Cursory
vindictive
venal
9. Equal: fair
equity
lull
conjugal
elegiac
10. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
fissure
renege
injurious
peregrination
11. Luck: desirable
Countenance
optimum
naive
spartan
12. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
discomfort
cirumlocution
esoteric
synchrounous
13. Sorrow: gloomily
hackneyed
morose
veracious
cryptic
14. Falsehood: decieve
churlish
duplicity
anomaly
lucid
15. Timid/timidity
recreant
diurnal
anomalous
fealty
16. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
ascertain
Abridge
gainsay
lambaste
17. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
disconsolate
discursive
intransigent
carom
18. Boring: lack of originality
loquacious
recant
threnody
banal
19. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
Syllabus
abrogate
laud/laudatory
miserly
20. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
discomfort
Sustenance
Neophyte
21. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
cryptic
pusillanimous
mitigate
inscrutable
22. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
Proponet
Tyro
Ancillary
assay
23. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
abeyance
pellucid
recreant
recalcitrant
24. Stubborn: uncomprimising
gyrate
intransigent
Tyro
Bolster
25. Poor
oblique
destitute
Querulous
epoch
26. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
indolent
vindictive
itinerant
turgid
27. Bad Mood: Snappish
incipient
mercurial
placate
Wapish
28. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
garrulous
impugn
Querulous
Tyro
29. Timid/timidity: cowardly
remonstrate
curt
odious
craven
30. Withdrawal/Retreat
indolent
demur
threnody
opprobrium
31. Wandering
peruse
putrid
expatiate
renitent
32. Lazy/ Sluggish
duplicity
lethargic
Corroborate
courageous
33. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
simulated
pusillanimous
acidulous
Callow
34. Not a straight line: move sideways
facetious
despotic
sooth
sidle
35. Healthy
beneficial
munificent
partisan
Cursory
36. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
mordant
insipid
dolor
tendentious
37. Funny: waggish
discursive
philanthropic
jocular
irascible
38. Hatred: habitual dislike
chicanery
antipathy
Sustenance
anomaly
39. Criticize/criticism: mock
Audacious
Tyro
facsimile
deride/ derisive
40. Pacify/Satisfy
truculent
sooth
elegy
perfidious
41. Harmful; full of menancing influence
stultify
dour
baleful
torpid
42. Hostile: boorish; rude
grandiloquent
churlish
placate
duplicity
43. Truth: candor
frankness
propitiate
abhorrence
novitiate
44. Unusual: perculiar manner
opaque
dauntless
inscrutable
idiosyncrasy
45. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
expatiate
canny
novitiate
forlorn
46. Harmful
oblique
fallacious
abrogate
insidious
47. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
conjugal
diatribe
irascible
garrulous
48. Withdrawal/Retreat
pithy
recidivism
limpid
scion
49. Hatred: extreme repugnance
abhorrence
ciruitous
intractable
baleful
50. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
sojourn
awry
Headlong
antipathy