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SAT Word Groups
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Subjects
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sat
,
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. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
consanguine
compunction
retrograde
esoteric
2. Generous/Kind
inhibit
insidious
unstinting
eon
3. Changing quickly: changeable
assay
mercurial
vacillate
esoteric
4. Terse: concise
exonerate
penultimate
hiatus
compendious
5. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
deleterious
undulating
absolve
salutary
6. Pacify/Satisfy
sooth
reprehend
apocryphal
dolor
7. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
putrid
altrustic
cirumlocution
vituperate
8. Hostile: eaisly angered
beneicent
irascible
prevaricate
deleterious
9. Pacify/Satisfy
impede
defer
anachronism
acquit
10. Forgive: make amends
expiate
recalcitrant
Cursory
trite
11. Assist- Very Generous
denounce
opaque
Munificent
Mainstay
12. Family: having same ancestry
consanguine
obviate
turbid
antipathy
13. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
verity
stultify
obscure
Syllabus
14. Lazy/ Sluggish
lament
phlegmatic
obloquy
grandiloquent
15. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
decry
mendacious/ mendacity
compendious
axiom
16. Sorrow; grief
dolor
Apace
reprobate
peripatetic
17. Harmful
reprobate
despotic
inimical
esoteric
18. Pleasant-Sounding
trite
sonorous
expatiate
iconoclast
19. Wandering: passing aimlessly
bereave
discursive
providental
impugn
20. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
labyrinth
Precipiate
Headlong
expiate
21. Greedy: inordinately greedy
ciruitous
rapacious
vitriolic
gullible
22. Wandering
peregrination
Wapish
defile
perfidious
23. Generous/Kind: kindness
dauntless
mollify
credulous
beneicent
24. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
belittle
appraise
antithetic
Headlong
25. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
denounce
odium
reprove
discursive
26. Stubborn: not obedient
objurgate
turpitude
scion
recalcitrant
27. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
impugn
fell
placate
cadaver
28. Lazy/ Sluggish
zealot
lethargic
minatory
unctuous
29. Assist
fawn
belittle
abrogate
Ancillary
30. Time/Duration/Order: to go before
trepidation
irascible
antecede
portentous
31. Family:
flippant
distaff
portentous
misanthropic
32. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
Wapish
acrimonious
feigned
expiate
33. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
diffidence
acidulous
equivocate
acrimonious
34. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
perspicacious
Espouse
sordid
ardor/ ardent
35. Timid/timidity
recreant
laconic
chicanery
millennium
36. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
Mordant
Precipiate
levity
mendacious/ mendacity
37. Innocent/ Inexperienced: innocent
anachronism
ingenuous
verity
interregnum
38. Investigate: to find out definitely
flippant
periphrastic
ascertain
perspicacious
39. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): violent condemnation
truculent
mitigate
malevolent
vituperation
40. Truth: cannot be doubted
indubitable
cirumlocution
meander
Countenance
41. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
teeter
obsequies
turgid
diffident
42. Harsh-Sounding:
misanthropic
abortive
millennium
dissonant
43. Time/Duration/Order: 2 weeks
capricious
turpitude
abrogate
fortnight
44. Hatred: habitual dislike
antipathy
augur
trenchant
succinct
45. Nasty
contrition
noisome
facsimile
moribound
46. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
bemusing
grandiloquent
curmudgeon
revile
47. Assist
talisman
Abet
distaff
hackneyed
48. Carousal
bacchanlian
belabor
inhibit
ludicrous
49. Lazy/ Sluggish:
forage
salutary
aggrandize
lackadaisical
50. Hesitate: wobble
teeter
astute
anomaly
iniquity