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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Not a straight line: turn to side
awry
reprehend
vindicate
volatile
2. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
excoriate
aggrandize
intractable
placate
3. Terse: using few words
laconic
exacerbate
anachronism
apothegm
4. Stubborn: to annoy
timorous
asperity
vexing
indolent
5. Hesitate: to show doubt
lament
macabre
baleful
waver
6. Hatred
fulsome
loathing
ascertain
abash
7. Innocent/ Inexperienced: innocent
ingenuous
indisputable
paradigm
frankness
8. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
irascible
exculpate
malice
anachronism
9. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
guile
impugn
fawn
iconoclast
10. Equal: fair
equity
obscure
undulating
sepulchral
11. Wisdom
fissure
harmonious
conjugal
dictum
12. Hostile: bad temper
curmudgeon
lackadaisical
assuage
aberrant
13. Easy to understand: plain
evident
truculent
obdurate
filial
14. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
encomium
inexorable
inimical
gullible
15. Embarrass: awkwardness
lugubrious
accolade
gaucherie
reprobate
16. Stubborn
apocryphal
Abridge
obsitnate
dolor
17. Dictorial: overbearing
imperious
paradigm
raillery
astute
18. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
hiatus
Corroborate
mordacious
quiescent
19. Sorrow: gloomily
Umbrage
consanguine
morose
fealty
20. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
tendentious
inimical
meander
sententious
21. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
euphonious
erroneous
gyrate
stultify
22. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
vacillate
filial
Dudgeon
malice
23. Insincere: conceal truth
portentous
Petulant
Advocate
dissemble
24. Funny: a silly smile
simper
equivocate
deride/ derisive
licentious
25. Withdrawal/Retreat: repeat
obloquy
obsitnate
rescind
tirade
26. Stubborn:
cavil
sojourn
intractable
invidious
27. Lazy/ Sluggish
plaintive
optimum
torpid
Inchoate
28. Bold:fearless
aspersion
cacophony
dauntless
carom
29. Timid/timidity: fearflu
consanguine
timorous
limpid
redress
30. Gaps/Openings: reduction
moribound
abatement
trenchant
stultify
31. Funny: to taunt; deride
gibe
largess
irascible
sententious
32. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
candor/candid
trenchant
peruse
lament
33. Falsehood: treachery
perfidy
oscillate
chagrin
hackneyed
34. Embarrass: slight flaw
dauntless
foible
recondite
prosaic
35. Dictorial: tyrant
tyrannical
capricious
trenchant
craven
36. Forgive: to relieve
duplicity
rapacious
palliate
venal
37. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
rebarbative
peruse
diffident
kismet
38. Time/Duration/Order: going before in time
expiate
anterior
adage
curt
39. Hesitate: wobble
foible
teeter
candor/candid
enmity
40. Generous/Kind:
obscure
inert
munificent
caustic
41. Terse: brief
flippant
dissemble
Sustenance
pithy
42. Luck: marvelous
prescient
compendious
ostensible
portentous
43. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
Asperity
cryptic
tendentious
denounce
44. Stubborn
Abridge
obdurate
sardonic
din
45. Praise
injurious
expatiate
insidious
extol
46. Predict: indicative
portentous
lugubrious
phlegmatic
din
47. Nasty: stinking
fetid
plaintive
droll
tantamount
48. Criticize/criticism
recreant
din
reprove
calmuny
49. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
optimum
dour
bacchanlian
licentious
50. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
recreant
abnegate
erudite
Mordant