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SAT Word Groups
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Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Not a straight line: turn to side
cavil
berate
antithetic
awry
2. Smart/Learned
erudite
melodious
fissure
canny
3. Terse
opaque
succinct
odious
deleterious
4. Pacify/Satisfy
sooth
anathema
obviate
axiom
5. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
rebuke
martinet
bombastic
demise
6. Family:
jocular
expiate
apothegm
distaff
7. Denying of self: self restrained
salubrious
temperate
trepidation
chicanery
8. Forgive: free from guilt
distaff
exculpate
peremptory
dolor
9. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
turgid
harrangue
ersatz
quintessence
10. Hostile: cruel
adage
renitent
truculent
Sustenance
11. Criticize/criticism: abuse
Petulant
elegiac
pillory
disingenuous
12. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
fetid
hiatus
dogmatic
zealot
13. Boring: dull
cirumlocution
pedestrian
idiosyncrasy
Umbrage
14. Walking About
Compendium
ambulatory
dogmatic
caustic
15. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
diatribe
perspicacious
belittle
filial
16. Luck: desirable
optimum
beneficial
equitable
depraved
17. Harmful; full of menancing influence
baleful
vortex
vindictive
turpitude
18. Boring: foolish
insidious
morose
remission
fatuous
19. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
auspice
denounce
Asperity
jocular
20. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
morose
propitiate
Petulant
waver
21. Insincere: conceal truth
recreant
recant
dissemble
abhorrence
22. Predict: indicative
canny
Abet
portentous
sardonic
23. Nag: long speech
harrangue
equivocate
encumber
fell
24. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
remonstrate
irascible
Proselyte
accolade
25. Not a straight line: side glance
asperity
aggrandize
peruse
askance
26. Easy to understand: clear
moribound
distaff
lucid
adulterate
27. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
rhetoric
diffident
precursor
adage
28. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
plaintive
rhetoric
fallacious
Neophyte
29. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
Terse
recant
inveigh
irascible
30. Praise: to solute
auspicious
itinerant
acclaim
expiate
31. Greedy: inordinately greedy
rapacious
truculent
facsimile
anatagonism
32. Dictorial: overbearing
imperious
dictum
apocryphal
perfidious
33. Praise
venerate
hackneyed
detestation
equivocate
34. Harmful
pettish
melancholy
interregnum
insidious
35. Harsh-Sounding:
platitude
dissonant
Mordant
mercenary
36. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
fortnight
opaque
garrulous
irascible
37. Time/Duration/Order: marked by characteristic of earlier period
adulterate
beneficial
archaic
arcane
38. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
erudite
facetious
rhetoric
aphorism
39. Insincere: moralistic fervor
invidious
descry
unctuous
kismet
40. Truth: cannot be doubted
prognosticate
zealot
indubitable
paradigm
41. Wisdom
beneficial
noisome
trite
sententious
42. Wisdom: proverb
frankness
gyrate
evident
adage
43. Insincere: lacking sincerity
revile
abatement
disingenuous
indolent
44. Embarrass: quality of being different
remonstrate
Apace
diffidence
Ancillary
45. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
enigmatic
auspicious
synchrounous
ardor/ ardent
46. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
abrogate
destitute
objurgate
tyrannical
47. Equal:
tantamount
dolorous
mercenary
raucous
48. Hostile: revengeful spirit
vindictive
noisome
respite
acclaim
49. Hatred
Audacious
perfidious
rancor
bromide
50. Hatred: intense dislike
odium
spartan
counterpart
dour