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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. Copy: predecessor
ephemeral
precursor
expatiate
Abrupt
2. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
mendacious/ mendacity
vituperate
perfidious
diurnal
3. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
fervid
enigmatic
dolorous
dissipated
4. Beginner/ Amateur:
Proselyte
perspicacious
truculent
prosaic
5. Embarrass
acidulous
expiate
endogamous
euphonious
6. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
erroneous
Bilious
vitiate
disconsolate
7. Pacify/Satisfy
assuage
trenchant
distaff
enjoin
8. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
orifice
asperity
tendentious
diatribe
9. Boring: usual
quotidian
gullible
pillory
remonstrate
10. Praise: any honor
scion
trepidation
impugn
accolade
11. Weaken
enervate
Advocate
impede
renege
12. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
bemusing
strident
talisman
adulterate
13. Luck: lucky
harmonious
compendious
auspicious
iniquity
14. Weaken: increase severity
prosaic
exacerbate
inveigh
partisan
15. Weaken
Stalwart
inert
adulterate
epigram
16. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
aberration
spurious
putrid
mundane
17. Embarrass: to feel regret
fetid
reprobate
rue
tyro
18. Gaps/Openings
interregnum
Proselyte
Bilious
ostensible
19. Falsehood: speak falsely
prevaricate
slothful
bombastic
Bilious
20. Investigate: to find out definitely
turgid
bereave
cavil
ascertain
21. Greedy:
fortnight
avaricious
inhibit
erudite
22. Time/Duration/Order
knell
temporal
curmudgeon
remonstrate
23. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
calmuny
wraith
libertine
prolix
24. Sorrow
indigent
lugubrious
Mainstay
Petulant
25. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
carom
obscure
esoteric
indolent
26. Predict
harmonious
lugubrious
defile
prescient
27. Boring: common/ banal
gainsay
mundane
adulterate
jocular
28. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
tyrannical
knell
diffidence
rhetoric
29. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
laconic
munificent
calmuny
pellucid
30. Embarrass: awkwardness
gaucherie
intransigent
Compendium
curmudgeon
31. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
partisan
opaque
turbid
disingenuous
32. Nag: stubbornly adheres to rules
dour
conjugal
retrograde
martinet
33. Wisdom
dictum
mollify
Advocate
conjugal
34. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
castigate
progenitor
munificent
decamp
35. Weaken
hector
Pique
inhibit
malevolent
36. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
excoriate
irascible
sepulchral
placate
37. Pacify/Satisfy
hackneyed
salutary
slake
anachronism
38. Denying of self: self restrained
malevolent
foible
levity
temperate
39. Prevent/Obstruct
abortive
Abridge
obdurate
hinder
40. Criticize/criticism: to scold
berate
epoch
verbose
turpitude
41. Stubborn: unalterable
inexorable
despotic
melancholy
inveigh
42. Changing quickly: erractic
venerate
avaricious
spartan
capricious
43. Wisdom
sententious
din
invidious
recant
44. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
facetious
clement
spartan
Asperity
45. Time/Duration/Order: marked by characteristic of earlier period
dither
archaic
equivocate
penurious
46. Bad Mood: Annoyance
portentous
Sustenance
lament
Umbrage
47. Hatred: opposite force
placate
abortive
anatagonism
vindicate
48. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
Abet
remonstrate
harrangue
mercurial
49. Timid/timidity
satiate
recreant
phlegmatic
augur
50. Praise
apocryphal
impede
chortle
laud/laudatory