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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Sorrow
putrid
scion
lugubrious
dour
2. Insincere: insincerely lavish
venal
Audacious
astute
fulsome
3. Walking About
insipid
capricious
noxious
itinerant
4. Hatred
portentous
ascertain
enmity
peregrination
5. Timid/timidity: fearflu
lethargic
timorous
laud/laudatory
evident
6. Carousal: full of sexual act
tantamount
insidious
adventitious
libidinous
7. Diffcult ot understand
tyro
abrogate
obscure
truculent
8. Prevent/Obstruct
occlued
portentous
Burgeoning
oscillate
9. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
sardonic
abjure
vacillate
dissemble
10. Criticize/criticism
reprove
Apace
debauchery
pettish
11. Criticize/criticism: abusive language
epoch
prosaic
obloquy
fatuous
12. Death/ Mourning: representing death
gainsay
chicanery
salutary
macabre
13. Death/ Mourning: dead body
quintessence
fell
diffidence
cadaver
14. Embarrass: slight flaw
spartan
rebuke
aspersion
foible
15. Harsh-Sounding:
remission
encumber
facetious
raucous
16. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
iniquity
Burgeoning
noisome
tirade
17. Prevent/Obstruct
discomfort
abhorrence
impugn
inhibit
18. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
harrangue
specious
Querulous
lackadaisical
19. Harmful: deadly
baneful
Novitiate
threnody
fortuitous
20. Stubborn
epigram
truism
obdurate
lament
21. Forgive: relieve from crime
Compendium
laconic
hector
acquit
22. Wandering
compunction
forage
intransigent
lull
23. Overblown/ Wordy:
strident
sardonic
cryptic
periphrastic
24. Insincere: conceal truth
vindictive
amulet
dissemble
mitigate
25. Investigate: to detect
denounce
libidinous
Petulant
descry
26. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
exonerate
fealty
sardonic
equivocate
27. Truth
indisputable
hiatus
occlued
riposte
28. Embarrass: humiliation
acquit
inexorable
chagrin
assay
29. Wisdom
precursor
periphrastic
aphorism
consanguine
30. Denying of self: self restrained
anathema
dauntless
inhibit
temperate
31. Harmful
discomfort
injurious
veracious
untoward
32. Terse: concise
lament
auspicious
compendious
enigmatic
33. Harsh-Sounding
trite
endogamous
odium
cacophony
34. Praise
venerate
levity
hector
ersatz
35. Nag: to urge
labyrinth
exhort
precursor
descry
36. Luck: lucky
idiosyncrasy
sidle
disconsolate
auspicious
37. Falsehood; incorrect
capricious
munificent
remonstrate
erroneous
38. Beginner/ Amateur
Dilettante
exculpate
acidulous
cryptic
39. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
distaff
obdurate
esoteric
Abrupt
40. Praise: to solute
indisputable
acclaim
raucous
canny
41. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
undulating
rebarbative
abash
lackadaisical
42. Copy: not natural
factitious
providental
interregnum
iniquity
43. Carousal: vulgar speech
abeyance
ribald
filial
peregrination
44. Poor
kismet
disingenuous
destitute
undulating
45. Truth: sincere in speech
malice
candor/candid
abnegation
eulogize
46. Nasty
indisputable
oblique
despotic
noxious
47. Greedy
miserly
Headlong
gainsay
injurious
48. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
pedestrian
redress
din
disingenuous
49. Greedy: extremely stingy
penurious
aberration
retrograde
obscure
50. Smart/Learned: clever
bemusing
astute
venerate
duplicity