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SAT Word Groups
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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. Assist- Very Generous
compunction
Munificent
injurious
laconic
2. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
ostensible
altrustic
torpid
mercenary
3. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement giving general view
Synopsis
cadaver
calmuny
abhorrence
4. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
Inchoate
libidinous
spurious
Bolster
5. Terse: concise
sepulchral
melodious
compendious
plaintive
6. Falsehood
cadaver
apocryphal
rift
unstinting
7. Pleasant-Sounding
lackadaisical
impede
facetious
euphonious
8. Embarrass: to feel regret
rue
grandiloquent
tirade
forlorn
9. Insincere: moralistic fervor
unctuous
iniquity
dictum
factitious
10. Not a straight line: side glance
chagrin
askance
aggrandize
defunct
11. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
aggrandize
acrimonious
loathing
magnanimous
12. Timid/timidity
miserly
Munificent
remonstrate
recreant
13. Dictorial: complete obedience
authoritarian
palliate
courageous
auspice
14. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
rift
anomaly
Abridge
assay
15. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
anatagonism
doleful
aberrant
Fledgling
16. Easy to understand: clear
lucid
peruse
waver
ameliorate
17. Smart/Learned: clever
careen
hegemonic
astute
lethargic
18. Praise: honor
hegemonic
rift
Burgeoning
aggrandize
19. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
extol
verbose
jocular
calmuny
20. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
anomalous
penultimate
ambiguous
hinder
21. Unusual: perculiar manner
morose
odious
idiosyncrasy
lambaste
22. Hostile: boorish; rude
churlish
reprobate
ostensible
dissipated
23. Investigate: to detect
peripatetic
descry
Advocate
axiom
24. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
epoch
fallacious
inert
eloquent
25. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
prolix
chicanery
irascible
rent
26. Embarrass: slight flaw
prosaic
foible
evident
Burgeoning
27. Withdrawal/Retreat; temporary decrease
ardor/ ardent
Apace
remission
Novitiate
28. Assist
Bolster
intransigent
turgid
propitiate
29. Boring: dull
esurient
pedestrian
rift
rue
30. Stubborn:
euphonious
intractable
vitriolic
lethargic
31. Forgive: free from guilt
absolve
pettish
knell
moribound
32. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
auspice
bereave
unctuous
fealty
33. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
ephemeral
bombastic
abjure
rebuke
34. Prevent/Obstruct
peregrination
craven
facetious
fetter
35. Boring: foolish
salubrious
fatuous
timorous
rift
36. Hatred
putrid
fulsome
ostensible
loathing
37. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
filial
carom
canny
absolve
38. Copy: likness
lament
fawn
novitiate
simulated
39. Luck: fate
partisan
sepulchral
discursive
kismet
40. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
consanguine
reproof
insipid
gullible
41. Family: a descendant
distaff
recreant
canny
scion
42. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scornful
opprobrium
rue
sardonic
denounce
43. Diffcult ot understand
portentous
rue
abstruse
adage
44. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
misanthropic
malice
gaucherie
melancholy
45. Wisdom
dolorous
epigram
obsequies
exonerate
46. Withdrawal/Retreat
admonish
truculent
abortive
ardor/ ardent
47. Pacify/Satisfy
obloquy
strident
antedate
defer
48. Generous/Kind
threnody
strident
unstinting
intransigent
49. Hatred
enmity
limpid
Syllabus
recondite
50. Wandering
optimum
discrete
hector
peregrination