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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. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
tyro
Callow
Munificent
iconoclast
2. Family: marriage
abortive
turgid
conjugal
limpid
3. Withdrawal/Retreat
ambulatory
careen
Tyro
recidivism
4. Sorrow
lament
sepulchral
adulterate
sincere
5. Weaken: increase severity
quiescent
opprobrium
exacerbate
salacious
6. Weaken
reprove
stultify
lament
portentous
7. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
decamp
anachronism
bacchanlian
partisan
8. Boring:dull remark
platitude
exculpate
revile
malevolent
9. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
dictum
recreant
ameliorate
satiate
10. Denying of self:
stoic
Inchoate
pithy
absolve
11. Bold: Brave
garrulous
courageous
curmudgeon
martinet
12. Wandering
decamp
recreant
peregrination
melancholy
13. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
abstain
aggrandize
rebuke
conjugal
14. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
conjugal
anterior
abash
meander
15. Nasty
lethargic
Syllabus
noxious
fortend
16. Generous/Kind
authoritarian
Corroborate
expatiate
philanthropic
17. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
careen
compendious
esoteric
scion
18. Wisdom: trite saying
hackneyed
bromide
Dilettante
torpid
19. Bad Mood: Annoyance
conjugal
curt
encumber
Umbrage
20. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
reprobate
depraved
fetid
evident
21. Stubborn:
obsequies
periphrastic
intractable
tyro
22. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
denounce
talisman
dour
remonstrate
23. Wisdom
truism
factitious
implacable
Dudgeon
24. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
penurious
Precipiate
iniquity
canard
25. Unusual: perculiar manner
sinuous
idiosyncrasy
sepulchral
bombastic
26. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
inert
exonerate
malevolent
gaucherie
27. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
placate
perspicacious
partisan
euphonious
28. Unusual
sidle
platitude
iconoclast
defile
29. Assist-To make more clear
temporal
Pique
facetious
Corroborate
30. Act quickly
martinet
disconsolate
rent
Abrupt
31. Hatred: habitual dislike
Espouse
Querulous
ascetic
antipathy
32. Funny: to taunt; deride
clement
gibe
fortnight
beneficial
33. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
garrulous
admonish
reprove
Mainstay
34. Greedy: bribery
venal
naive
exacerbate
dauntless
35. Boring: dull
pedestrian
esoteric
vortex
Syllabus
36. Lazy/ Sluggish
incipient
destitute
phlegmatic
Asperity
37. Praise
laud/laudatory
trepidation
perfidious
churlish
38. Time/Duration/Order: lasting a short time
disconsolate
Fledgling
mollify
ephemeral
39. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
renege
slake
orifice
Asperity
40. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
Terse
remonstrate
Compendium
turgid
41. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
bereave
Syllabus
epoch
turgid
42. Walking About
dither
ambulatory
waver
discursive
43. Assist-A person or thing that acts as chief support
Burgeoning
Mainstay
courageous
pellucid
44. Wisdom: instructive saying
rancor
adulterate
timorous
apothegm
45. Funny: lacking in seriouness
flippant
archaic
Audacious
vindictive
46. Terse: concise
compendious
inhibit
hinder
Tyro
47. Diffcult ot understand
injurious
specious
obscure
chagrin
48. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
carom
dissonant
feigned
Cursory
49. Weaken
inhibit
counterpart
turbid
ambiguous
50. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
grandiloquent
aggrandize
antithetic
contrition