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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. Weaken: increase severity
decry
exacerbate
anathema
chicanery
2. Criticize/criticism: abusive language
riposte
debauchery
antedate
obloquy
3. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
bacchanlian
credulous
aggrandize
salacious
4. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
invidious
abrogate
ciruitous
odious
5. Assist
fetid
Espouse
stoic
pithy
6. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
zealot
specious
iconoclast
Ancillary
7. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
Advocate
deride/ derisive
remission
fervid
8. Praise
venerate
intractable
ascetic
incipient
9. Pacify/Satisfy
slake
abstain
quotidian
circumvent
10. Generous/Kind
dissemble
hector
noxious
philanthropic
11. Terse: concise
pettish
compendious
scion
exhort
12. Wandering
knell
remonstrate
Ancillary
forage
13. Hostile: cruel
vituperation
lackadaisical
truculent
inscrutable
14. Bad Mood: Anger
reproof
ambulatory
Dudgeon
rancor
15. Falsehood: crafty deception
cryptic
venal
guile
caustic
16. Bad Mood: Annoyance
strident
opaque
Umbrage
Curtail
17. Denying of self:
axiom
abnegate
verbose
Curtail
18. Criticize/criticism: vehement speech
probity
slake
erudite
tirade
19. Carousal: wicked
placate
iniquity
apocryphal
canny
20. Greedy:
avaricious
auspice
chagrin
dissonant
21. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
forlorn
consanguine
mercenary
aberrant
22. Pleasant-Sounding
sonorous
aberration
Engender
melodious
23. Prevent/Obstruct
berate
opprobrium
fratricide
hinder
24. Sorrow: gloomily
decamp
amulet
morose
expatiate
25. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
probity
asperity
abjure
enjoin
26. Dictorial: tyrant
dogmatic
obscure
tyrannical
exculpate
27. Hatred: loathed
novitiate
expatiate
anathema
eclectic
28. Insincere: lacking sincerity
disingenuous
temperate
pernicious
iniquity
29. Sorrow: expressing sorrow
elegiac
fortnight
recant
enervate
30. Lazy/ Sluggish
aspersion
anathema
slothful
dolorous
31. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
flippant
Precipiate
slake
Petulant
32. Harmful: deadly
harmonious
abstruse
anachronism
baneful
33. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
auspicious
grandiloquent
rift
loquacious
34. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
obviate
Inchoate
cirumlocution
Sustenance
35. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
Precipiate
asperity
misanthropic
exonerate
36. Nasty
abstain
acclaim
noxious
gainsay
37. Walking About
assay
peripatetic
Advocate
succinct
38. Pacify/Satisfy
detestation
irascible
assuage
recidivism
39. Praise
respite
pillory
fawn
prolix
40. Funny: waggish; humorous
abnegation
droll
dour
counterpart
41. Weaken
odium
undermine
fetter
melancholy
42. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
melodious
dissipated
covetous
opprobrium
43. Criticize/criticism: blame
Headlong
archaic
assuage
reprehend
44. Sorrow: funeral song
threnody
Curtail
pusillanimous
tyro
45. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
factitious
salubrious
calmuny
belittle
46. Assist
exacerbate
ingenuous
Countenance
doctrinaire
47. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
diurnal
decamp
ambiguous
sordid
48. Wisdom
Apace
sepulchral
platitude
vindicate
49. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
descry
ambiguous
fell
demise
50. Harmful: treacherous
perfidious
serrated
sidle
acquit