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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. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
pernicious
articulate
grandiloquent
macabre
2. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
vindictive
Munificent
acrimonious
ascetic
3. Diffcult ot understand
exhort
ribald
obscure
fissure
4. Sorrow: gloomily
macabre
morose
gyrate
elegiac
5. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
slake
lethargic
mordant
emulate
6. Funny: a humor riducule
paradigm
altrustic
raillery
fealty
7. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
baleful
vortex
obloquy
Cursory
8. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
epoch
melancholy
ameliorate
opaque
9. Family: a descendant
scion
Querulous
iconoclast
enervate
10. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
mitigate
tendentious
rebuke
decry
11. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
garrulous
beneicent
Novitiate
Abridge
12. Criticize/criticism: blame
Curtail
reprehend
moribound
demise
13. Hatred
obdurate
loathing
malice
salubrious
14. Time/Duration/Order: 1000 year
reprobate
partisan
millennium
Syllabus
15. Praise: to solute
expatiate
reprehend
acclaim
admonish
16. Greedy: bribery
venal
epigram
macabre
mordant
17. Generous/Kind:
misanthropic
courageous
munificent
quintessence
18. Criticize/criticism: belitte
knell
perfidy
disparge
fetid
19. Gaps/Openings: small narrow space
sententious
Munificent
interjustice
enigmatic
20. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
scathing
awry
zealot
adventitious
21. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
bereave
Pique
astute
dogmatic
22. Terse: using few words
contrition
oscillate
Abrupt
laconic
23. Predict
limpid
dissipated
axiom
prognosticate
24. Assist- Very Generous
antithetic
Munificent
distaff
acrimonious
25. Hatred: habitual dislike
rent
antipathy
turgid
abstruse
26. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
mordant
discomfort
adulterate
esoteric
27. Funny
ludicrous
exculpate
venal
novitiate
28. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
odious
peruse
Abridge
aspersion
29. Diffcult ot understand:
ambiguous
Sustenance
satiate
sojourn
30. Eccentric/ dissimilar: made of different source
volatile
pellucid
eclectic
minatory
31. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
iconoclast
augur
interregnum
verbose
32. Copy: Model
paradigm
miserly
compunction
fortuitous
33. Praise
iconoclast
intransigent
fawn
inhibit
34. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
Burgeoning
anomaly
fell
cogent
35. Luck: something by chance
capricious
turbid
adventitious
rue
36. Funny
injurious
levity
vindicate
baneful
37. Prevent/Obstruct
minatory
fetter
irascible
doctrinaire
38. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
truculent
tyro
gullible
fealty
39. Assist
Ancillary
temperate
unctuous
Neophyte
40. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
periphrastic
ambiguous
prolix
Apace
41. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
harrangue
recalcitrant
noisome
vacillate
42. Stubborn: uncomprimising
melancholy
intransigent
palliate
canny
43. Diffcult ot understand: obscure
sincere
erroneous
arcane
distaff
44. Lazy/ Sluggish
mundane
evident
quiescent
eloquent
45. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
Headlong
inimical
platitude
laconic
46. Copy: acting as a substitute
Mainstay
vicarious
verbose
propitiate
47. Beginner/ Amateur:
mordacious
Proselyte
pernicious
vacillate
48. Forgive: free from guilt
exculpate
aphorism
fealty
opaque
49. Walking About
peripatetic
simulated
oscillate
doleful
50. Timid/timidity: fearflu
synchrounous
timorous
fulsome
Apace