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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: criticize severly
noisome
castigate
orifice
exonerate
2. Forgive: relieve from crime
cavil
rebuke
acquit
auspice
3. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful/ give offense
cadaver
invidious
aphorism
Audacious
4. Nag: repeatedly than necessary
rescind
dauntless
volatile
belabor
5. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
loquacious
orifice
quintessence
expiate
6. Bad Mood: Complaining
Callow
harrangue
dogmatic
Querulous
7. Predict
facetious
Mainstay
prognosticate
adulterate
8. Criticize/criticism
auspice
ciruitous
ersatz
reprove
9. Lazy/ Sluggish
dissonant
ambulatory
partisan
torpid
10. Praise: to praise highly
obsitnate
obloquy
eulogize
aberration
11. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
abash
undulating
cryptic
awry
12. Truth: candor
fatuous
invidious
frankness
Bilious
13. Death/ Mourning: dead/ not operating
defunct
exculpate
obdurate
chagrin
14. Pacify/Satisfy
Neophyte
kismet
novitiate
appease
15. Bad Mood: Snappish
peruse
abstruse
Wapish
disparge
16. Death/ Mourning: bell made for a funeral
salutary
vexing
ascertain
knell
17. Harmful: threatening
minatory
lament
noisome
detestation
18. Walking About
itinerant
auspice
diffident
interregnum
19. Praise: formal expression of high praise
spurious
aberration
encomium
Stalwart
20. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
aspersion
Neophyte
oblique
reproof
21. Boring: common/ banal
mundane
Dilettante
succinct
acquit
22. Truth: cannot be doubted
appease
equivocate
indubitable
noisome
23. Greedy
covetous
asperity
sententious
licentious
24. Changing quickly: changeable
Mordant
exacerbate
volatile
mollify
25. Timid/timidity
penurious
recreant
aspersion
vitiate
26. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
sinuous
ameliorate
turpitude
inert
27. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
aspersion
undulating
filial
contrition
28. Nag: prescribe with authority
precursor
recidivism
enjoin
belabor
29. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
progenitor
expiate
orifice
sepulchral
30. Falsehood: decieve
duplicity
occlued
loquacious
forage
31. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
droll
malevolent
noisome
sardonic
32. Act quickly- Sudden or rash action/emotion
Impetuous
Ancillary
trite
peripatetic
33. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
anomaly
frankness
partisan
iconoclast
34. Prevent/Obstruct
Terse
fortend
abrogate
archaic
35. Not a straight line: rotartory movement
baneful
temporal
enervate
vortex
36. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
filial
dither
oblique
rebuke
37. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
rancor
askance
inveigh
compendious
38. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
dictum
abhorrence
sinuous
specious
39. Harsh-Sounding
baleful
cacophony
extol
candor/candid
40. Death/ Mourning: mournful
bemusing
lull
canard
dolorous
41. Withdrawal/Retreat
auspicious
abortive
ersatz
Tyro
42. Harmful: treacherous
perfidious
loquacious
abeyance
descry
43. Carousal: shameful
endogamous
fetter
untoward
turpitude
44. Family: marriage
caustic
erroneous
conjugal
assay
45. Hostile: boorish; rude
specious
macabre
churlish
propitiate
46. Harmful: deadly
askance
fissure
unstinting
baneful
47. Terse
vindictive
Burgeoning
succinct
lucid
48. Funny: lacking in seriouness
libidinous
Synopsis
craven
flippant
49. Weaken: increase severity
exacerbate
oscillate
banal
askance
50. Nasty
fortend
enigmatic
Terse
noxious