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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. Diffcult ot understand
exacerbate
reprehend
obscure
talisman
2. Forgive: free from guilt
licentious
peremptory
diffident
absolve
3. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
peruse
articulate
vitriolic
canard
4. Funny: a humor riducule
peregrination
raillery
fratricide
renege
5. Lazy/ Sluggish
discursive
fetid
phlegmatic
belabor
6. Easy to understand
propitiate
eloquent
baleful
moribound
7. Walking About
quiescent
inimical
itinerant
Abrupt
8. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
perfidy
abrogate
inexorable
astute
9. Sorrow: mournful
caustic
doleful
Stalwart
gibe
10. Death/ Mourning: dead body
beneicent
cadaver
caustic
invidious
11. Assist
Espouse
intractable
hackneyed
apocryphal
12. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
emulate
Burgeoning
ribald
axiom
13. Time/Duration/Order: 2 weeks
fortnight
belabor
mitigate
untoward
14. Funny: a silly smile
pillory
simper
acclaim
Impetuous
15. Pacify/Satisfy
candor/candid
sidle
sooth
mercurial
16. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
platitude
credulous
Precipiate
aggrandize
17. Copy: acting as a substitute
sententious
macabre
libertine
vicarious
18. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
descry
harrangue
paradigm
auspicious
19. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
fratricide
exculpate
inscrutable
turgid
20. Truth: candor
frankness
hiatus
clement
Bolster
21. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
propitiate
esoteric
erudite
Syllabus
22. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
mercenary
aberrant
interregnum
ardor/ ardent
23. Embarrass: ashamed
obviate
craven
threnody
abash
24. Lazy/ Sluggish
arcane
insidious
reproof
quiescent
25. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
compunction
wraith
Proponet
calmuny
26. Smart/Learned: clever
loquacious
astute
tantamount
turpitude
27. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
forlorn
zealot
Inchoate
exacerbate
28. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
inhibit
anomaly
anterior
sardonic
29. Prevent/Obstruct
harmonious
frankness
guile
encumber
30. Bad Mood: peevish
emulate
antipathy
clement
pettish
31. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
verity
grandiloquent
ardor/ ardent
doctrinaire
32. Boring: dull
axiom
prosaic
hegemonic
bacchanlian
33. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
filial
verbose
chortle
Novitiate
34. Generous/Kind: kindness
exacerbate
defer
perfidy
beneicent
35. Boring: foolish
abrogate
fatuous
ingenuous
Apace
36. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): miserable
volatile
grandiloquent
baleful
sincere
37. Hatred
phlegmatic
salutary
redress
abortive
38. Hostile
circumvent
misanthropic
abhorrence
venerate
39. Wisdom
dolorous
slake
aphorism
fell
40. Criticize/criticism
elegiac
reprove
slothful
abjure
41. Death/ Mourning: representing death
macabre
inhibit
placate
hackneyed
42. Denying of self:
defile
spartan
discrete
iniquity
43. Not a straight line: rotartory movement
vortex
mordant
veracious
pithy
44. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
bereave
kismet
temperate
gyrate
45. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
dissipated
inhibit
torpid
Munificent
46. Copy: predecessor
evident
authoritarian
grandiloquent
precursor
47. Greedy: acting merely for money
compendious
mercenary
turgid
sonorous
48. Changing quickly: changeable
beneficial
volatile
salutary
equitable
49. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
bemusing
dogmatic
bombastic
erudite
50. Prevent/Obstruct
abrogate
retrograde
fetid
fortend