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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. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
rescind
grandiloquent
loathing
Inchoate
2. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
dissonant
invidious
asperity
periphrastic
3. Prevent/Obstruct
occlued
berate
caustic
garrulous
4. Boring:dull remark
Mordant
precursor
platitude
ambulatory
5. Not a straight line: round about
arcane
penultimate
ciruitous
Stalwart
6. Wisdom
axiom
mitigate
dictum
abatement
7. Truth
mollify
truculent
sincere
talisman
8. Bad Mood: Snappish
Wapish
Curtail
sinuous
odious
9. Truth
frankness
peregrination
licentious
indisputable
10. Terse: using few words
progenitor
belittle
laconic
sepulchral
11. Hatred
fealty
loathing
deleterious
anomaly
12. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
fell
abnegation
Ancillary
peripatetic
13. Forgive: free from guilt
bereave
absolve
rancor
harrangue
14. Family:
sardonic
guile
distaff
malevolent
15. Abbreviated Communication
rancor
demise
Cursory
Compendium
16. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
disconsolate
vindicate
vituperate
Abrupt
17. Praise: formal expression of high praise
prescient
anomalous
curmudgeon
encomium
18. Wandering: passing aimlessly
Querulous
guile
discursive
defunct
19. Dictorial: imperious
despotic
archaic
fey
peremptory
20. Overblown/ Wordy:
discrete
Countenance
Curtail
bombastic
21. Prevent/Obstruct
fortend
threnody
Querulous
acquit
22. Easy to understand: clear
enigmatic
noisome
Querulous
limpid
23. Withdrawal/Retreat
abortive
mercenary
abnegation
noisome
24. Funny: waggish; humorous
droll
adage
fortend
disingenuous
25. Not a straight line: turn to side
irascible
plaintive
awry
putrid
26. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
anomalous
endogamous
interjustice
portentous
27. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
rhetoric
bromide
articulate
contrition
28. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
contrition
ingenuous
wraith
irascible
29. Diffcult ot understand
evident
obscure
loquacious
Abridge
30. Lazy/ Sluggish:
dolorous
denounce
lackadaisical
Precipiate
31. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
harrangue
vindictive
foible
deleterious
32. Wisdom
melancholy
endogamous
cavil
aphorism
33. Hatred: loathed
diatribe
miserly
undulating
anathema
34. Walking About
ambulatory
truism
Inchoate
compendious
35. Luck: fortunate
careen
exculpate
providental
lackadaisical
36. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
Burgeoning
satiate
bereave
baleful
37. Diffcult ot understand:
axiom
anomalous
ambiguous
evident
38. Funny: a silly smile
trite
simper
askance
mordant
39. Time/Duration/Order; indefinetly lon period of time
eon
Apace
renege
baleful
40. Weaken
redress
chortle
adulterate
vindicate
41. Greedy
peripatetic
ascetic
covetous
orifice
42. Truth: candor
Compendium
dogmatic
frankness
turpitude
43. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
Ancillary
hackneyed
interregnum
acidulous
44. Harmful
obdurate
insidious
mercurial
Curtail
45. Hatred
enervate
lull
magnanimous
rancor
46. Death/ Mourning: death
timorous
demise
loquacious
Stalwart
47. Truth
pernicious
probity
Terse
Countenance
48. Pleasant-Sounding
harmonious
gainsay
clement
deleterious
49. Insincere: lacking sincerity
disingenuous
respite
Pique
authoritarian
50. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
abash
phlegmatic
anachronism
vitiate