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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. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
lament
awry
appraise
dour
2. Nag: stubbornly adheres to rules
martinet
recalcitrant
dolorous
redress
3. Act quickly
Abrupt
retrograde
Dilettante
portentous
4. Insincere: lacking sincerity
disingenuous
teeter
feigned
oblique
5. Stubborn: resistant
morose
renitent
deride/ derisive
obloquy
6. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
respite
Umbrage
malice
altrustic
7. Boring: to make common by frequent use
hackneyed
labyrinth
pusillanimous
oscillate
8. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
gyrate
bombastic
Apace
lament
9. Hatred
dolor
rancor
depraved
vicarious
10. Timid/timidity: fearflu
respite
lull
timorous
mendacious/ mendacity
11. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
largess
salacious
knell
despotic
12. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
tantamount
auspice
bromide
grandiloquent
13. Wisdom: proverb
discrete
adage
auspice
evident
14. Sorrow: funeral song
fetid
salacious
antecede
threnody
15. Pacify/Satisfy
churlish
odious
satiate
apothegm
16. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
reprobate
bereave
rebuke
plaintive
17. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
decamp
miserly
banal
perspicacious
18. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
berate
Petulant
Wapish
hackneyed
19. Terse: reserved in speech
consanguine
Mordant
taciturn
disingenuous
20. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
Syllabus
zealot
disconsolate
portentous
21. Greedy: acting merely for money
mercenary
laud/laudatory
optimum
melodious
22. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
defunct
recondite
rhetoric
iconoclast
23. Nasty: stinking
fetid
tyrannical
descry
contrition
24. Dictorial: overbearing
Syllabus
decry
imperious
mercenary
25. Weaken: elminate
Ancillary
obviate
compunction
objurgate
26. Poor
curmudgeon
abnegate
destitute
retrograde
27. Withdrawal/Retreat: repeat
impede
odium
rescind
guile
28. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
injurious
fissure
labyrinth
decry
29. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
melodious
specious
torpid
equity
30. Family: a descendant
hector
Cursory
scion
Compendium
31. Hatred: extreme repugnance
defile
novitiate
dissemble
abhorrence
32. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
dissonant
fetid
temperate
abortive
33. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
baneful
abjure
lugubrious
lament
34. Not a straight line: grooved edge
odious
expiate
appraise
serrated
35. Easy to understand:
loathing
defamation
ribald
articulate
36. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
abstruse
itinerant
eon
lambaste
37. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
fratricide
baneful
aberration
ambiguous
38. Generous/Kind: kindness
impede
beneicent
depraved
acclaim
39. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
wraith
dissemble
careen
compunction
40. Insincere: insincerely lavish
forlorn
extol
miserly
fulsome
41. Denying of self:
lull
bombastic
factitious
abnegate
42. Easy to understand: clear
abnegation
cogent
Munificent
hector
43. Embarrass: humiliation
chagrin
melodious
Impetuous
tirade
44. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
caustic
beneicent
endogamous
Callow
45. Death/ Mourning: dead body
cadaver
disparge
Querulous
acerbic
46. Terse: brief
iconoclast
acidulous
abash
pithy
47. Truth
lament
antecede
acrimonious
probity
48. Luck: something by chance
vindictive
adventitious
gibe
anatagonism
49. Terse: concise
defamation
expiate
candor/candid
compendious
50. Luck: fate
recalcitrant
kismet
garrulous
truculent