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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. Prevent/Obstruct
melancholy
labyrinth
inhibit
ambiguous
2. Overblown/ Wordy
erroneous
verbose
acidulous
trenchant
3. Insincere: conceal truth
Pique
remonstrate
acrimonious
dissemble
4. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
Asperity
bereave
unctuous
euphonious
5. Funny: to taunt; deride
arcane
adage
gibe
gainsay
6. Gaps/Openings
respite
kismet
penultimate
forlorn
7. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
decry
diurnal
authoritarian
askance
8. Smart/Learned
periphrastic
eon
turgid
canny
9. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
sincere
Cursory
partisan
propitiate
10. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
ascertain
pellucid
specious
untoward
11. Falsehood: speak falsely
inscrutable
wraith
slothful
prevaricate
12. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
vacillate
inhibit
pithy
bromide
13. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
lackadaisical
spartan
apocryphal
rent
14. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
millennium
defile
riposte
axiom
15. Embarrass: to feel regret
Callow
expiate
rue
circumvent
16. Falsehood: misleading
cacophony
fallacious
compunction
hinder
17. Assist- Very Generous
pillory
largess
impede
Munificent
18. Falsehood
spurious
fervid
cacophony
waver
19. Timid/timidity
recreant
obsitnate
enervate
acquit
20. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
turpitude
Syllabus
eloquent
chagrin
21. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful/ give offense
acrimonious
undermine
invidious
rapacious
22. Innocent/ Inexperienced
vexing
esoteric
naive
askance
23. Criticize/criticism: to scold
paradigm
nascent
berate
antecede
24. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
Syllabus
iconoclast
sinuous
anatagonism
25. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
Espouse
sidle
melancholy
revile
26. Family: a descendant
emulate
periphrastic
peripatetic
scion
27. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
propitiate
riposte
gullible
renitent
28. Terse: brief
pithy
defamation
baleful
berate
29. Family:
distaff
craven
raucous
reproof
30. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
Cursory
mercenary
largess
plaintive
31. Predict
prognosticate
ribald
Callow
defer
32. Boring: without indistinctive
fissure
distaff
vitiate
insipid
33. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
Synopsis
inhibit
levity
Terse
34. Family: marriage
ludicrous
aggrandize
discrete
conjugal
35. Denying of self:
optimum
abnegate
inexorable
apocryphal
36. Copy: to imitate
facetious
eulogize
emulate
factitious
37. Lazy/ Sluggish
circumvent
phlegmatic
zealot
facetious
38. Harsh-Sounding
trite
martinet
denounce
cacophony
39. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
undulating
novitiate
denounce
abeyance
40. Prevent/Obstruct
fortuitous
fetter
astute
inhibit
41. Hatred: loathed
acclaim
knell
anathema
kismet
42. Pleasant-Sounding
Synopsis
iconoclast
exacerbate
harmonious
43. Bad Mood: Annoyance
Umbrage
lull
gaucherie
hiatus
44. Wisdom
dictum
Dilettante
anomalous
scion
45. Diffcult ot understand
hiatus
abstruse
ameliorate
fratricide
46. Assist
moribound
Bolster
elegiac
craven
47. Prevent/Obstruct
recondite
encumber
temporal
decry
48. Sorrow
disingenuous
volatile
plaintive
eloquent
49. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
Apace
turbid
disingenuous
verbose
50. Changing quickly: changeable
dither
discrete
mercurial
strident