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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. Stubborn: to annoy
bombastic
defunct
anatagonism
vexing
2. Falsehood
encomium
sincere
peremptory
apocryphal
3. Praise
acrimonious
laud/laudatory
rescind
dissemble
4. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
tyro
Mordant
castigate
baleful
5. Diffcult ot understand:
Sustenance
Precipiate
venal
recondite
6. Harmful: treacherous
counterpart
ludicrous
perfidious
sepulchral
7. Nasty
droll
appraise
noxious
Cursory
8. Hostile: eaisly angered
ascetic
anomalous
irascible
dogmatic
9. Hatred
levity
rancor
licentious
scathing
10. Not a straight line: to go around
turgid
trite
banal
circumvent
11. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
Tyro
opaque
Advocate
levity
12. Boring: dull
prosaic
abstain
diffidence
temperate
13. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
assuage
caustic
pithy
threnody
14. Wisdom
exonerate
aphorism
eulogize
anomaly
15. Prevent/Obstruct
banal
axiom
fortend
garrulous
16. Lazy/ Sluggish
lethargic
perspicacious
epigram
accolade
17. Diffcult ot understand
renitent
elegiac
obscure
inimical
18. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not in chronological time
chagrin
anachronism
eulogize
disingenuous
19. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
chortle
retrograde
sinuous
remission
20. Family: a descendant
feigned
hegemonic
scion
epigram
21. Investigate: to analyze
elegiac
aberration
antipathy
assay
22. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
Burgeoning
munificent
mollify
forlorn
23. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
propitiate
diffident
Ancillary
vituperation
24. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
sententious
vortex
beneicent
careen
25. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
cryptic
serrated
aphorism
ameliorate
26. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
providental
destitute
bombastic
elegy
27. Act quickly
Apace
tendentious
churlish
eclectic
28. Overblown/ Wordy:
bombastic
acerbic
strident
garrulous
29. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
sonorous
fortuitous
obsequies
diatribe
30. Harmful
auspice
indubitable
Curtail
insidious
31. Sorrow
Wapish
fell
lament
descry
32. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
morose
circumvent
Syllabus
garrulous
33. Assist
dauntless
exhort
synchrounous
Countenance
34. Bad Mood: Snappish
fey
forage
Wapish
disingenuous
35. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
interregnum
aberrant
mundane
laud/laudatory
36. Prevent/Obstruct
Engender
mitigate
encumber
vindictive
37. Not a straight line: round about
dour
tyro
ciruitous
stoic
38. Insincere: conceal truth
synchrounous
dissemble
itinerant
obviate
39. Unusual: perculiar manner
vortex
idiosyncrasy
impugn
exculpate
40. Truth: being true
verity
wraith
awry
aberration
41. Terse
anomaly
taciturn
anachronism
succinct
42. Stubborn: uncomprimising
aberration
intransigent
revile
fortend
43. Innocent/ Inexperienced: innocent
mundane
abrogate
vexing
ingenuous
44. Dictorial: imperious
harrangue
acrimonious
deleterious
peremptory
45. Boring: common/ banal
grandiloquent
mundane
rent
obviate
46. Forgive: free from guilt
discursive
exculpate
bemusing
berate
47. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
factitious
abstain
idiosyncrasy
aberrant
48. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
ambiguous
bereave
discomfort
iconoclast
49. Luck: marvelous
enmity
portentous
Dudgeon
mitigate
50. Truth
indisputable
fetid
trite
denounce