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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. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
compendious
volatile
appease
filial
2. Lazy/ Sluggish:
craven
hiatus
harmonious
lackadaisical
3. Luck: something by chance
debauchery
adventitious
axiom
beneicent
4. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
Sustenance
mitigate
vitriolic
ascertain
5. Wisdom
precursor
depraved
dictum
gainsay
6. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
excoriate
acidulous
libertine
Mordant
7. Bad Mood: Snappish
cogent
exonerate
Wapish
hector
8. Smart/Learned
bemusing
canny
antedate
plaintive
9. Not a straight line: move sideways
jocular
facsimile
lull
sidle
10. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
cavil
iconoclast
rift
nascent
11. Funny: a silly smile
simper
bemusing
dictum
vacillate
12. Hesitate: to show doubt
aggrandize
aspersion
waver
emulate
13. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
arcane
Compendium
dissipated
tantamount
14. Harsh-Sounding:
mundane
turbid
raucous
fatuous
15. Embarrass: humiliation
droll
kismet
chagrin
equity
16. Pacify/Satisfy
Precipiate
insidious
sonorous
sooth
17. Act quickly
Synopsis
calmuny
Abrupt
lament
18. Pacify/Satisfy
Advocate
defer
abjure
impecunious
19. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
impecunious
prescient
depraved
inscrutable
20. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
melancholy
gibe
defile
turpitude
21. Luck: amulet
platitude
talisman
Novitiate
reprove
22. Assist-A person or thing that acts as chief support
platitude
discomfort
untoward
Mainstay
23. Forgive: make amends
indolent
peruse
expiate
lament
24. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
anomaly
conjugal
capricious
plaintive
25. Pleasant-Sounding
conjugal
melodious
gibe
adventitious
26. Hatred
equity
Syllabus
lackadaisical
rancor
27. Weaken
fetter
orifice
stultify
droll
28. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
aberration
interregnum
gainsay
laconic
29. Generous/Kind: compassionate
clement
quiescent
objurgate
axiom
30. Diffcult ot understand:
recondite
noisome
eon
fortnight
31. Gaps/Openings:
aperture
expiate
belittle
hegemonic
32. Falsehood
decry
peruse
rent
apocryphal
33. Boring: lacking in freshness
strident
trite
abortive
impede
34. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
recondite
caustic
fatuous
timorous
35. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
threnody
harrangue
trepidation
garrulous
36. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
talisman
anachronism
defamation
ascertain
37. Death/ Mourning: near death
moribound
deleterious
Fledgling
defile
38. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
forlorn
scathing
odium
excoriate
39. Wisdom: trite saying
trepidation
lambaste
bromide
belittle
40. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
facsimile
discrete
fell
nascent
41. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
unstinting
fetid
mordant
conjugal
42. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
tyrannical
retrograde
dissonant
irascible
43. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
strident
Terse
renege
slothful
44. Overblown/ Wordy:
periphrastic
candor/candid
expiate
pernicious
45. Unusual
magnanimous
forlorn
iconoclast
expatiate
46. Boring: without indistinctive
prognosticate
objurgate
insipid
conjugal
47. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): miserable
optimum
avaricious
slake
baleful
48. Family:
rent
fealty
canard
distaff
49. Hatred: intense dislike
diurnal
providental
quintessence
odium
50. Harmful: threatening
putrid
castigate
minatory
indubitable