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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. Harmful: threatening
minatory
pettish
sinuous
peregrination
2. Insincere: pretended
extol
consanguine
obviate
ostensible
3. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
lament
verity
vituperation
iconoclast
4. Luck: amulet
talisman
Mordant
specious
baleful
5. Criticize/criticism: abusive language
obloquy
Ancillary
martinet
meander
6. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
mordacious
acclaim
opaque
undermine
7. Bad Mood: Cranky
aberration
largess
rebuke
Bilious
8. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
zealot
mordant
mollify
enjoin
9. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
diatribe
Audacious
altrustic
waver
10. Prevent/Obstruct
vexing
inhibit
chagrin
elegy
11. Easy to understand: clear
platitude
limpid
mollify
epoch
12. Poor
conjugal
berate
destitute
Compendium
13. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
carom
curmudgeon
retrograde
venal
14. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
acquit
Inchoate
apocryphal
indubitable
15. Hatred: loathed
craven
anathema
fey
progenitor
16. Hatred: habitual dislike
Dudgeon
fetid
antipathy
cryptic
17. Terse: using few words
misanthropic
laconic
denounce
miserly
18. Praise: to solute
acclaim
din
turpitude
fey
19. Terse: concise
abnegate
garrulous
lethargic
compendious
20. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
Syllabus
elegiac
inexorable
injurious
21. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
asperity
absolve
chicanery
elegiac
22. Falsehood: crafty deception
verity
trite
guile
Synopsis
23. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
timorous
admonish
Precipiate
absolve
24. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
Mainstay
misanthropic
accolade
fervid
25. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
millennium
rebuke
Cursory
circumvent
26. Not a straight line: turn to side
awry
Terse
sonorous
intransigent
27. Embarrass: awkwardness
abortive
diatribe
zealot
gaucherie
28. Not a straight line: move sideways
exculpate
defer
anterior
sidle
29. Unusual: perculiar manner
idiosyncrasy
orifice
laconic
vortex
30. Diffcult ot understand:
enigmatic
ambiguous
din
Sustenance
31. Time/Duration/Order: to go before
antecede
disparge
harrangue
rift
32. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
oblique
forlorn
incipient
mordacious
33. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
nascent
eloquent
quintessence
cacophony
34. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
abstain
phlegmatic
consanguine
prosaic
35. Wisdom
renitent
facetious
platitude
distaff
36. Falsehood
reproof
odious
spurious
carom
37. Wisdom: proverb
fell
Burgeoning
indigent
adage
38. Investigate: to analyze
assay
prevaricate
dour
reprobate
39. Wisdom
aphorism
sordid
venerate
verbose
40. Harsh-Sounding
cacophony
prescient
ambulatory
palliate
41. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
perspicacious
equivocate
itinerant
ascertain
42. Stubborn:
detestation
baleful
intractable
malice
43. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
dolorous
revile
mordacious
portentous
44. Predict
augur
rebarbative
pusillanimous
iconoclast
45. Family: person who kill his or her brother
equity
fratricide
augur
acerbic
46. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
Petulant
despotic
Abrupt
cavil
47. Predict: indicative
ameliorate
portentous
abatement
perspicacious
48. Truth: cannot be doubted
abrogate
indubitable
ardor/ ardent
adulterate
49. Nag: stubbornly adheres to rules
ephemeral
martinet
dour
abstruse
50. Wisdom
ludicrous
putrid
sententious
veracious