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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. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
epoch
fetter
loathing
pillory
2. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
volatile
esoteric
rift
churlish
3. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
slake
doctrinaire
abatement
undulating
4. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not in chronological time
ambiguous
arcane
penurious
anachronism
5. Falsehood: give false appearance
apothegm
dissemble
riposte
indolent
6. Terse: reserved in speech
ingenuous
taciturn
temperate
obdurate
7. Stubborn:
intractable
adage
credulous
meander
8. Greedy: extremely stingy
equitable
eclectic
doleful
penurious
9. Generous/Kind:
ameliorate
largess
bombastic
evident
10. Poor
paradigm
jocular
destitute
adventitious
11. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
melodious
anatagonism
platitude
enigmatic
12. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
carom
simper
sojourn
acidulous
13. Harsh-Sounding:
aggrandize
raucous
dissemble
retrograde
14. Weaken
undermine
ingenuous
aspersion
Tyro
15. Assist: Example Stalwart light house
arcane
fissure
Stalwart
libidinous
16. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
aggrandize
fey
gullible
caustic
17. Family: marriage within a social tribe
salubrious
endogamous
demur
aperture
18. Gaps/Openings: narrow opening
propitiate
injurious
fissure
mollify
19. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
exhort
altrustic
obloquy
covetous
20. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
Abridge
objurgate
carom
Bolster
21. Truth
volatile
probity
reproof
antipathy
22. Harsh-Sounding
cacophony
laconic
Dilettante
fetid
23. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
Engender
sinuous
harrangue
acrimonious
24. Prevent/Obstruct
verbose
hinder
tendentious
Engender
25. Smart/Learned: clever
aberrant
arcane
exacerbate
astute
26. Embarrass: slight flaw
martinet
foible
licentious
probity
27. Forgive: to relieve
palliate
loathing
reprobate
esurient
28. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
ribald
dissipated
oblique
recreant
29. Falsehood: deception
inimical
dolorous
fortuitous
chicanery
30. Harmful; full of menancing influence
mundane
fortend
baleful
wraith
31. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
riposte
depraved
dissipated
putrid
32. Copy: exact copy
facsimile
factitious
obsitnate
ersatz
33. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
recondite
dour
Corroborate
belabor
34. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
partisan
penultimate
recondite
Sustenance
35. Dictorial: opinionated
inscrutable
Terse
dogmatic
waver
36. Bold:fearless
chagrin
dissipated
dauntless
beneficial
37. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
credulous
Headlong
kismet
knell
38. Hostile: eaisly angered
miserly
libidinous
irascible
antithetic
39. Truth: candor
palliate
munificent
acidulous
frankness
40. Investigate: to analyze
mordacious
assay
arcane
compunction
41. Insincere: pretended
reproof
ostensible
volatile
bacchanlian
42. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
Novitiate
disparge
lucid
abhorrence
43. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
providental
gyrate
quiescent
curmudgeon
44. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
aspersion
acclaim
stultify
abhorrence
45. Assist- Support by argument
mundane
apocryphal
fetid
Advocate
46. Terse: brief
propitiate
bacchanlian
curt
pithy
47. Embarrass
Neophyte
vindictive
guile
expiate
48. Sorrow; grief
remonstrate
hiatus
hinder
dolor
49. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
defunct
munificent
sidle
Terse
50. Criticize/criticism: vehement speech
admonish
peruse
tyro
tirade