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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. Prevent/Obstruct
largess
impede
indolent
Abrupt
2. Harmful: threatening
minatory
eclectic
abnegation
anomalous
3. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
penurious
morose
endogamous
antedate
4. Harmful:
disingenuous
malice
cacophony
deleterious
5. Boring:dull remark
platitude
gullible
anomaly
Headlong
6. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
forlorn
temperate
inert
acidulous
7. Terse: concise
arcane
propitiate
compendious
defile
8. Assist
bombastic
apocryphal
Espouse
excoriate
9. Stubborn: unalterable
scathing
inexorable
providental
Synopsis
10. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
tantamount
trenchant
precursor
apothegm
11. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
odious
antecede
abstruse
anachronism
12. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
careen
impugn
sententious
lull
13. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
perfidy
wraith
esoteric
invidious
14. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not in chronological time
anachronism
anomaly
grandiloquent
nascent
15. Nag: to urge
filial
abnegation
admonish
frankness
16. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
chagrin
rebarbative
putrid
perfidy
17. Wisdom: instructive saying
chortle
esoteric
torpid
apothegm
18. Pleasant-Sounding
knell
progenitor
sonorous
cirumlocution
19. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
imperious
Headlong
cryptic
abstain
20. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
sepulchral
anterior
invidious
baneful
21. Praise: to solute
acclaim
indisputable
progenitor
ardor/ ardent
22. Embarrass: awkwardness
mollify
gaucherie
malice
Espouse
23. Stubborn: not obedient
facetious
orifice
elegiac
recalcitrant
24. Falsehood: deception
opprobrium
circumvent
raillery
chicanery
25. Prevent/Obstruct
fortend
aberration
facetious
enmity
26. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
labyrinth
laconic
cirumlocution
mercenary
27. Criticize/criticism: shameful
propitiate
renege
enervate
opprobrium
28. Walking About
careen
itinerant
dissemble
accolade
29. Changing quickly: erractic
capricious
forlorn
elegy
propitiate
30. Copy: Model
untoward
paradigm
synchrounous
remonstrate
31. Carousal: excessive indulgence
reprove
debauchery
flippant
ascertain
32. Insincere: lacking sincerity
exacerbate
harmonious
disingenuous
ciruitous
33. Praise
Proponet
dictum
venerate
putrid
34. Pacify/Satisfy
eon
appease
orifice
fawn
35. Timid/timidity: cowardly
craven
simulated
renitent
Precipiate
36. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
mercurial
volatile
sojourn
obsequies
37. Falsehood: treachery
perfidy
Proselyte
rebuke
retrograde
38. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
antedate
acidulous
lament
strident
39. Equal:
abhorrence
volatile
destitute
tantamount
40. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
prolix
diffident
Pique
itinerant
41. Smart/Learned: clever
bombastic
tyrannical
euphonious
astute
42. Stubborn:
Apace
antedate
intractable
disingenuous
43. Funny:
facetious
eulogize
inhibit
undulating
44. Wandering
quintessence
doleful
awry
peregrination
45. Wisdom
bereave
aphorism
acidulous
canny
46. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
courageous
sinuous
axiom
auspicious
47. Criticize/criticism: to scold
berate
Dudgeon
imperious
providental
48. Boring: common/ banal
abstain
reproof
mundane
unstinting
49. Family: having same ancestry
consanguine
reprehend
capricious
astute
50. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
kismet
hector
anachronism
ambulatory