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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. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
paradigm
covetous
Burgeoning
appraise
2. Gaps/Openings
interregnum
extol
churlish
acerbic
3. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
exculpate
palliate
denounce
Abridge
4. Luck: marvelous
portentous
idiosyncrasy
abeyance
penurious
5. Prevent/Obstruct
discomfort
pellucid
caustic
erudite
6. Stubborn
gainsay
obsitnate
impugn
lugubrious
7. Lazy/ Sluggish
pernicious
Curtail
dolorous
phlegmatic
8. Family:
fey
distaff
pedestrian
encomium
9. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
antedate
peruse
irascible
malice
10. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
abjure
antithetic
erroneous
Cursory
11. Wandering: temporary stay
sojourn
teeter
noisome
frankness
12. Smart/Learned
dissipated
Espouse
canny
fawn
13. Wisdom
aphorism
obdurate
venerate
vindicate
14. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
expiate
Countenance
decry
gainsay
15. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
rent
enervate
emulate
esoteric
16. Predict
intractable
obscure
forage
augur
17. Praise
abash
extol
ascertain
fealty
18. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
trepidation
strident
abnegation
beneficial
19. Prevent/Obstruct
fortend
naive
abstruse
apocryphal
20. Harsh-Sounding:
dissonant
deleterious
tirade
Umbrage
21. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
doctrinaire
equitable
Countenance
indolent
22. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
placate
prevaricate
ostensible
defile
23. Withdrawal/Retreat: give up
abnegation
gibe
simulated
placate
24. Harmful
millennium
retrograde
inimical
wraith
25. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
descry
rebarbative
inimical
melodious
26. Praise: to solute
facsimile
truism
acclaim
hackneyed
27. Terse: using few words
ameliorate
laconic
moribound
recant
28. Funny: a gleeful chuckle
platitude
Petulant
chortle
Bilious
29. Boring: without indistinctive
adventitious
perfidy
anterior
insipid
30. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
indisputable
lull
abstain
Audacious
31. Funny
riposte
noxious
auspicious
lackadaisical
32. Embarrass
exculpate
encumber
expiate
articulate
33. Funny: a silly smile
expatiate
simper
retrograde
interjustice
34. Wisdom: trite saying
prognosticate
bromide
askance
harrangue
35. Family: person who kill his or her brother
fratricide
inveigh
awry
Corroborate
36. Equal: fair
equity
chortle
equitable
anatagonism
37. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
implacable
dissipated
pellucid
specious
38. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
antipathy
gullible
abhorrence
oblique
39. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
foible
fell
Precipiate
oblique
40. Hatred
altrustic
turpitude
slake
loathing
41. Criticize/criticism: belitte
fallacious
disparge
slothful
munificent
42. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
malevolent
covetous
forlorn
ambulatory
43. Hatred
abortive
sincere
adage
rancor
44. Dictorial: imperious
encomium
sordid
chicanery
peremptory
45. Greedy
augur
Wapish
miserly
eulogize
46. Sorrow; grief
forlorn
pedestrian
dolor
Advocate
47. Assist
malice
opaque
Ancillary
anomaly
48. Hatred: opposite force
anatagonism
eulogize
cogent
articulate
49. Beginner/ Amateur:
opprobrium
Proselyte
obscure
raucous
50. Lazy/ Sluggish
slothful
grandiloquent
salutary
expiate