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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. Dictorial: complete obedience
inscrutable
aberration
cavil
authoritarian
2. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
eclectic
garrulous
pellucid
opprobrium
3. Smart/Learned
canny
morose
unstinting
Cursory
4. Wisdom
Terse
sententious
dissonant
adventitious
5. Walking About
trite
peripatetic
fetid
abnegation
6. Funny: lacking in seriouness
din
flippant
pedestrian
turpitude
7. Greedy: acting merely for money
mercenary
renitent
discomfort
Terse
8. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
prevaricate
factitious
baleful
Terse
9. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
providental
astute
quiescent
dissipated
10. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
trenchant
simper
Tyro
evident
11. Forgive: free from guilt
Compendium
insidious
exculpate
sardonic
12. Hostile: cruel
taciturn
renege
truculent
aberration
13. Beginner/ Amateur:
encomium
Proselyte
precursor
lucid
14. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
feigned
mordant
novitiate
prolix
15. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
mendacious/ mendacity
grandiloquent
fetter
portentous
16. Denying of self: extreme denial
ascetic
vituperate
truculent
carom
17. Dictorial: imperious
specious
tyrannical
Mordant
peremptory
18. Walking About
abash
ambulatory
anachronism
hector
19. Wisdom: trite saying
bromide
Headlong
lackadaisical
kismet
20. Death/ Mourning: visible spirit
accolade
rent
Neophyte
wraith
21. Wisdom
platitude
diatribe
ambiguous
reprobate
22. Carousal
forage
aperture
droll
bacchanlian
23. Time/Duration/Order: 2 weeks
hackneyed
fortnight
lament
mordant
24. Dictorial: predominance
plaintive
Synopsis
hegemonic
revile
25. Act quickly
Abrupt
elegy
acquit
dogmatic
26. Embarrass: ashamed
recant
defile
nascent
abash
27. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
nascent
incipient
rhetoric
platitude
28. Embarrass: to feel regret
Mordant
recant
rue
frankness
29. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
Callow
assay
odious
prevaricate
30. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
lament
iconoclast
bombastic
droll
31. Luck: something by chance
capricious
noisome
adventitious
perfidy
32. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
succinct
Cursory
odious
cogent
33. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
banal
lucid
defamation
obdurate
34. Wisdom
slothful
contrition
demur
epigram
35. Boring: foolish
veracious
fatuous
sonorous
eon
36. Easy to understand: clear
cogent
ascetic
conjugal
obdurate
37. Insincere: moralistic fervor
ludicrous
unctuous
indolent
rue
38. Nag: prescribe with authority
inveigh
enjoin
teeter
diatribe
39. Hostile: revengeful spirit
erroneous
quintessence
mitigate
vindictive
40. Unusual
implacable
timorous
libertine
iconoclast
41. Pleasant-Sounding
harmonious
taciturn
fey
compunction
42. Wisdom: proverb
anachronism
threnody
adage
fetid
43. Falsehood: crafty deception
revile
guile
Asperity
mollify
44. Prevent/Obstruct
courageous
elegiac
itinerant
inhibit
45. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
adulterate
aperture
ephemeral
despotic
46. Praise: to solute
acclaim
credulous
baneful
teeter
47. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
duplicity
elegiac
specious
tendentious
48. Greedy: inordinately greedy
cavil
ascertain
guile
rapacious
49. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
aphorism
Inchoate
detestation
filial
50. Harmful
pernicious
abrogate
hegemonic
calmuny