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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. Funny
raillery
hiatus
askance
levity
2. Weaken
Bolster
stultify
Wapish
laconic
3. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
discomfort
candor/candid
garrulous
fortend
4. Truth
sincere
loquacious
vicarious
malice
5. Overblown/ Wordy
malice
verbose
recidivism
fey
6. Terse: using few words
laconic
timorous
millennium
abash
7. Bad Mood: Snappish
elegiac
pettish
Wapish
stultify
8. Lazy/ Sluggish
abatement
lethargic
awry
truculent
9. Carousal
abortive
bacchanlian
craven
encomium
10. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
aggrandize
insidious
fervid
conjugal
11. Wandering: temporary stay
sojourn
abeyance
antithetic
defunct
12. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
chagrin
volatile
sepulchral
dissipated
13. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
abrogate
anachronism
Bolster
rhetoric
14. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
belabor
Tyro
hegemonic
sinuous
15. Weaken
knell
ardor/ ardent
adulterate
lull
16. Bad Mood: Annoyance
Umbrage
invidious
lackadaisical
depraved
17. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
recreant
belittle
verity
astute
18. Pacify/Satisfy
sojourn
assuage
Novitiate
torpid
19. Prevent/Obstruct
abhorrence
inhibit
Synopsis
inexorable
20. Truth
probity
fealty
rancor
plaintive
21. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
venerate
vituperate
paradigm
euphonious
22. Boring: to make common by frequent use
levity
novitiate
hackneyed
distaff
23. Hostile: cruel
reprove
truculent
inexorable
platitude
24. Nag: prescribe with authority
enjoin
altrustic
lament
decamp
25. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
reprove
specious
kismet
palliate
26. Embarrass
quotidian
Munificent
absolve
expiate
27. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
Abridge
opaque
loquacious
acrimonious
28. Gaps/Openings: small narrow space
avaricious
doleful
interjustice
philanthropic
29. Insincere: pretended
trite
ostensible
volatile
eulogize
30. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
deleterious
rift
lambaste
venerate
31. Diffcult ot understand:
mitigate
ambiguous
indolent
Curtail
32. Weaken: elminate
fealty
obviate
iconoclast
beneficial
33. Forgive: relieve from crime
epigram
prolix
evident
acquit
34. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement giving general view
belabor
Impetuous
indigent
Synopsis
35. Bad Mood: Complaining
Querulous
prolix
stultify
fratricide
36. Timid/timidity: tremor
trepidation
apothegm
opaque
aphorism
37. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
platitude
stoic
enigmatic
conjugal
38. Not a straight line: grooved edge
epigram
indisputable
serrated
contrition
39. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
deride/ derisive
facsimile
truism
ersatz
40. Gaps/Openings: reduction
munificent
abrogate
abatement
adulterate
41. Boring: common/ banal
macabre
iniquity
recant
mundane
42. Stubborn: improper
fell
foible
fetid
untoward
43. Truth: cannot be doubted
indubitable
compendious
astute
distaff
44. Hatred
mercenary
portentous
enmity
scathing
45. Time/Duration/Order: 2 weeks
largess
Dudgeon
fortnight
avaricious
46. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
inhibit
mitigate
Abridge
licentious
47. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
perfidious
Burgeoning
gibe
inert
48. Equal: fairness
equitable
anomaly
frankness
compunction
49. Boring:dull remark
contrition
platitude
periphrastic
admonish
50. Prevent/Obstruct
emulate
discomfort
pithy
Curtail