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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. Easy to understand: clear
diffident
stultify
limpid
noxious
2. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): miserable
baleful
bombastic
aberration
odium
3. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
precursor
vitiate
waver
Neophyte
4. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
acrimonious
hegemonic
counterpart
dissonant
5. Truth: cannot be doubted
harrangue
indubitable
rescind
Querulous
6. Insincere: moralistic fervor
fetid
sidle
Neophyte
unctuous
7. Funny
craven
obviate
obdurate
riposte
8. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
mordant
vexing
naive
optimum
9. Nasty: stinking
fetid
epigram
forlorn
ostensible
10. Terse: concise
laud/laudatory
compendious
rescind
mendacious/ mendacity
11. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
rapacious
arcane
compendious
aberration
12. Forgive: make amends
foible
expiate
irascible
wraith
13. Walking About
harrangue
circumvent
appraise
ambulatory
14. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
garrulous
Stalwart
millennium
aggrandize
15. Embarrass: to feel regret
Compendium
plaintive
rue
admonish
16. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
hackneyed
sonorous
trenchant
incipient
17. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
loathing
sincere
zealot
Burgeoning
18. Funny: a humor riducule
zealot
din
discrete
raillery
19. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
probity
obsitnate
ribald
Inchoate
20. Lazy/ Sluggish:
Neophyte
renitent
lackadaisical
baleful
21. Generous/Kind: kindness
macabre
beneicent
recant
Tyro
22. Sorrow
belittle
peruse
lament
impecunious
23. Wisdom: proverb
acquit
nascent
remonstrate
adage
24. Not a straight line: grooved edge
prolix
inveigh
serrated
Stalwart
25. Funny: lacking in seriouness
fetter
flippant
slake
consanguine
26. Prevent/Obstruct
apocryphal
defamation
discomfort
eulogize
27. Pacify/Satisfy
covetous
appease
Terse
turbid
28. Time/Duration/Order: going before in time
anterior
elegy
auspicious
noisome
29. Walking About
auspice
din
apocryphal
itinerant
30. Easy to understand: plain
gibe
admonish
evident
simulated
31. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
facetious
fervid
feigned
courageous
32. Time/Duration/Order: 2 weeks
fortnight
sinuous
esoteric
Burgeoning
33. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
Ancillary
undulating
harrangue
melodious
34. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
malevolent
debauchery
vacillate
reprobate
35. Gaps/Openings
gibe
respite
irascible
Munificent
36. Pacify/Satisfy: appease/ concillated
cogent
disingenuous
propitiate
lambaste
37. Wandering
appraise
esoteric
forage
acrimonious
38. Funny: waggish; humorous
demise
fortuitous
serrated
droll
39. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
miserly
lugubrious
odious
nascent
40. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
obviate
rebuke
din
obdurate
41. Smart/Learned
dictum
lackadaisical
injurious
canny
42. Nag;
fratricide
peruse
abrogate
hector
43. Family: marriage within a social tribe
Mainstay
fissure
endogamous
magnanimous
44. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
contrition
putrid
obviate
ludicrous
45. Hatred: extreme repugnance
vindictive
ribald
abhorrence
interjustice
46. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
ephemeral
excoriate
augur
pernicious
47. Withdrawal/Retreat; temporary decrease
gullible
peripatetic
asperity
remission
48. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
Abet
diurnal
anomalous
chicanery
49. Boring:dull remark
platitude
Engender
magnanimous
macabre
50. Dictorial: overbearing
Apace
melancholy
esoteric
imperious