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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. Greedy: extremely stingy
prolix
propitiate
penurious
hackneyed
2. Gaps/Openings
Pique
aphorism
respite
churlish
3. Embarrass: awkwardness
auspice
filial
fey
gaucherie
4. Dictorial: complete obedience
arcane
awry
authoritarian
epoch
5. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
perspicacious
odium
indolent
raillery
6. Poor
enigmatic
gainsay
garrulous
destitute
7. Terse: concise
compendious
abstruse
anomaly
Pique
8. Nag: stubbornly adheres to rules
irascible
abstain
abhorrence
martinet
9. Copy: not natural
authoritarian
factitious
specious
magnanimous
10. Not a straight line: to go around
circumvent
Wapish
palliate
Burgeoning
11. Death/ Mourning: near death
moribound
misanthropic
limpid
inert
12. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
spartan
revile
vitriolic
largess
13. Timid/timidity: cowardly
craven
incipient
insidious
exacerbate
14. Weaken
enmity
fetid
adulterate
quiescent
15. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
renege
melancholy
aberrant
portentous
16. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
aberration
auspicious
Mordant
admonish
17. Luck: something by chance
bemusing
tantamount
adventitious
succinct
18. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
rancor
antecede
limpid
retrograde
19. Falsehood: tellind lies
disingenuous
mendacious/ mendacity
Novitiate
antithetic
20. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
guile
periphrastic
esoteric
compendious
21. Sorrow: gloomily
fortuitous
morose
aberrant
inimical
22. Luck: marvelous
baleful
propitiate
ingenuous
portentous
23. Denying of self:
inscrutable
spartan
probity
inveigh
24. Withdrawal/Retreat
discrete
Countenance
droll
demur
25. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
portentous
anomalous
diatribe
aspersion
26. Hatred: extreme repugnance
abhorrence
Synopsis
defunct
fealty
27. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
melodious
oblique
disingenuous
prevaricate
28. Assist
fissure
Abet
prolix
Corroborate
29. Gaps/Openings: narrow opening
deride/ derisive
sidle
fissure
reprove
30. Timid/timidity
orifice
cacophony
renege
pusillanimous
31. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
intractable
Audacious
rift
castigate
32. Truth
indisputable
esoteric
articulate
ameliorate
33. Hostile: cruel
indubitable
truculent
simper
ribald
34. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
mercurial
lament
decry
credulous
35. Criticize/criticism: shameful
fey
opprobrium
quintessence
endogamous
36. Falsehood; incorrect
pernicious
erroneous
melodious
canard
37. Nag: to urge
credulous
exhort
ingenuous
impecunious
38. Pacify/Satisfy
ascertain
assuage
Mordant
epoch
39. Embarrass: quality of being different
enigmatic
diffidence
apothegm
vortex
40. Truth: being true
amulet
penultimate
Petulant
verity
41. Stubborn: unalterable
chicanery
vituperate
magnanimous
inexorable
42. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
orifice
duplicity
penultimate
gaucherie
43. Insincere: insincerely lavish
avaricious
fulsome
satiate
laud/laudatory
44. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
licentious
propitiate
disparge
prolix
45. Boring: lacking in freshness
trite
ingenuous
specious
temporal
46. Nag;
sepulchral
unctuous
hector
chortle
47. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
adventitious
denounce
rancor
licentious
48. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
dictum
aberrant
fetid
discrete
49. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
acclaim
bereave
lucid
foible
50. Weaken
stultify
impecunious
quotidian
martinet