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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. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
rebarbative
millennium
inveigh
dictum
2. Predict: indicative
avaricious
dictum
portentous
Pique
3. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
Precipiate
Asperity
Pique
zealot
4. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
dolorous
cryptic
Tyro
incipient
5. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
diatribe
augur
noisome
inert
6. Forgive: relieve from crime
rent
pernicious
acquit
compendious
7. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
meander
implacable
decamp
filial
8. Pacify/Satisfy
satiate
portentous
rent
awry
9. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
placate
specious
chicanery
insidious
10. Funny: waggish; humorous
enervate
orifice
encumber
droll
11. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
indigent
bemusing
rescind
remonstrate
12. Hatred
rancor
descry
archaic
Dilettante
13. Copy: acting as a substitute
vicarious
philanthropic
acrimonious
simper
14. Stubborn: resistant
martinet
renitent
renege
threnody
15. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
droll
salutary
excoriate
impugn
16. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
salutary
Curtail
fell
retrograde
17. Gaps/Openings:
aperture
sidle
decamp
axiom
18. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
disingenuous
garrulous
defamation
incipient
19. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
volatile
Pique
contrition
curt
20. Generous/Kind
unstinting
implacable
beneicent
ambulatory
21. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
exonerate
vindicate
inveigh
expatiate
22. Assist
filial
succinct
Abet
Proponet
23. Boring: dull
fey
prosaic
enjoin
trenchant
24. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
abrogate
objurgate
equity
dissemble
25. Easy to understand: plain
teeter
doleful
evident
emulate
26. Easy to understand:
erroneous
probity
fatuous
articulate
27. Falsehood: misleading
harmonious
fallacious
Synopsis
diffident
28. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
calmuny
inhibit
libertine
perspicacious
29. Wisdom
indisputable
quiescent
rift
dictum
30. Assist- Support by argument
Advocate
prognosticate
beneicent
iniquity
31. Pleasant-Sounding
melodious
dither
curt
Curtail
32. Nag: to plead
indigent
partisan
Abrupt
remonstrate
33. Prevent/Obstruct
amulet
compendious
Sustenance
encumber
34. Criticize/criticism: mock
deride/ derisive
candor/candid
diatribe
anachronism
35. Equal:
quiescent
spartan
tantamount
clement
36. Diffcult ot understand
obscure
elegy
penurious
Dudgeon
37. Not a straight line: to go around
odious
sententious
circumvent
compendious
38. Embarrass: slight flaw
trepidation
foible
spartan
Abridge
39. Timid/timidity: cowardly
craven
enjoin
putrid
reprove
40. Not a straight line: move sideways
dolor
sidle
anachronism
iconoclast
41. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
axiom
distaff
rent
Stalwart
42. Hesitate:
deleterious
knell
oscillate
talisman
43. Dictorial: complete obedience
indubitable
authoritarian
rhetoric
harrangue
44. Copy: likness
imperious
peregrination
riposte
simulated
45. Boring: common/ banal
mundane
lucid
temporal
dissemble
46. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
castigate
rhetoric
asperity
insipid
47. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
rift
penultimate
lament
iniquity
48. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
strident
discursive
carom
vitriolic
49. Insincere: lacking sincerity
prognosticate
disingenuous
bereave
Cursory
50. Greedy:
lament
appease
ersatz
avaricious