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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. Eccentric/ dissimilar: separate
Cursory
zealot
avaricious
discrete
2. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
vitriolic
discrete
magnanimous
reprobate
3. Lazy/ Sluggish:
cogent
trepidation
recalcitrant
lackadaisical
4. Prevent/Obstruct
clement
garrulous
occlued
scion
5. Praise: any honor
quiescent
accolade
reprobate
dour
6. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
pusillanimous
hinder
Burgeoning
retrograde
7. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
vitiate
deleterious
Petulant
minatory
8. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
gyrate
harrangue
obloquy
aberration
9. Family: biologically ancestor
Burgeoning
arcane
progenitor
esoteric
10. Nag: to urge
probity
caustic
abnegate
exhort
11. Hesitate: to show doubt
waver
Stalwart
abhorrence
rancor
12. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
odium
bombastic
Pique
defer
13. Easy to understand
depraved
facsimile
eloquent
gullible
14. Family: a descendant
scion
enmity
esoteric
peruse
15. Luck: lucky
auspicious
inscrutable
diffident
satiate
16. Praise: formal expression of high praise
auspicious
avaricious
encomium
fell
17. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
Neophyte
loquacious
sincere
sinuous
18. Criticize/criticism: to scold
magnanimous
penurious
berate
abnegation
19. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
synchrounous
tirade
caustic
candor/candid
20. Nag: to urge
admonish
enmity
rue
auspicious
21. Luck: fortunate
oscillate
providental
dissemble
elegy
22. Boring: dull
untoward
authoritarian
loquacious
prosaic
23. Copy: acting as a substitute
epoch
vicarious
placate
rapacious
24. Praise
harrangue
inert
succinct
venerate
25. Equal: fair
erudite
lament
naive
equity
26. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
fatuous
esoteric
elegiac
wraith
27. Diffcult ot understand:
ambiguous
revile
amulet
respite
28. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
gainsay
penultimate
clement
covetous
29. Praise
laud/laudatory
descry
mollify
sojourn
30. Hostile: boorish; rude
churlish
platitude
spartan
dictum
31. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
cirumlocution
sinuous
ingenuous
anachronism
32. Predict
prosaic
assuage
truism
augur
33. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
sinuous
augur
hegemonic
careen
34. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
vitiate
diatribe
munificent
salacious
35. Time/Duration/Order: 1000 year
quintessence
millennium
bromide
astute
36. Gaps/Openings: narrow opening
mordant
Wapish
vituperation
fissure
37. Boring: to make common by frequent use
astute
renitent
hackneyed
veracious
38. Hostile
ardor/ ardent
misanthropic
dissonant
odium
39. Falsehood: treachery
perfidy
fey
erudite
rancor
40. Copy: duplication
counterpart
pellucid
absolve
axiom
41. Nag: stubbornly adheres to rules
eulogize
optimum
martinet
doctrinaire
42. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
dissemble
Countenance
lament
Callow
43. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
rebuke
orifice
equivocate
debauchery
44. Denying of self: self restrained
dissipated
temperate
turgid
adage
45. Weaken: elminate
obviate
serrated
odious
reprove
46. Weaken
expiate
satiate
adulterate
ameliorate
47. Praise
peregrination
vindicate
fawn
truculent
48. Wandering
descry
expatiate
decamp
intractable
49. Hatred
lackadaisical
epigram
loathing
dictum
50. Wisdom
platitude
disparge
sepulchral
odious