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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; full of menancing influence
anachronism
undulating
articulate
baleful
2. Not a straight line: move sideways
sordid
aggrandize
sidle
Cursory
3. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
obdurate
revile
noisome
Dudgeon
4. Pacify/Satisfy
spurious
munificent
slake
foible
5. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
equivocate
demise
eclectic
fell
6. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
respite
gibe
accolade
indolent
7. Family: a descendant
undermine
Espouse
filial
scion
8. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
ribald
phlegmatic
cogent
retrograde
9. Investigate: to find out definitely
irascible
noxious
Advocate
ascertain
10. Smart/Learned: clever
specious
mordacious
optimum
astute
11. Walking About
abstain
itinerant
zealot
diatribe
12. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
forage
penultimate
aberrant
defer
13. Predict
venal
defer
abstruse
prescient
14. Praise
Ancillary
expiate
lugubrious
extol
15. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
feigned
satiate
banal
remonstrate
16. Falsehood: decieve
bereave
duplicity
libidinous
prevaricate
17. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
deleterious
riposte
diffident
penurious
18. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
asperity
courageous
simulated
Sustenance
19. Changing quickly: erractic
precursor
capricious
loquacious
remonstrate
20. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
abjure
diurnal
baleful
rescind
21. Sorrow: funeral song
revile
courageous
threnody
diffident
22. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
compendious
esurient
mordacious
opaque
23. Greedy
covetous
fervid
taciturn
vacillate
24. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
abstruse
nascent
banal
lambaste
25. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
prolix
millennium
iconoclast
Apace
26. Eccentric/ dissimilar: separate
demur
dissonant
levity
discrete
27. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
exacerbate
destitute
castigate
gullible
28. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
melancholy
Pique
Abrupt
destitute
29. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
licentious
Petulant
ostensible
dissipated
30. Investigate: examine in detail
obscure
absolve
obviate
peruse
31. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
opprobrium
trenchant
anatagonism
loquacious
32. Stubborn: uncomprimising
altrustic
mendacious/ mendacity
sepulchral
intransigent
33. Hesitate: to show doubt
waver
talisman
mendacious/ mendacity
prosaic
34. Embarrass: quality of being different
mordant
diffidence
optimum
portentous
35. Pacify/Satisfy
interregnum
sooth
turgid
inscrutable
36. Truth: being true
raillery
synchrounous
verity
Pique
37. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
ersatz
salubrious
perspicacious
ardor/ ardent
38. Insincere: lacking sincerity
disingenuous
lackadaisical
fulsome
encumber
39. Not a straight line: rotartory movement
expiate
doctrinaire
Stalwart
vortex
40. Carousal
interregnum
denounce
astute
bacchanlian
41. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
slake
candor/candid
aberrant
Abridge
42. Harmful: threatening
largess
minatory
sinuous
truculent
43. Funny: waggish
itinerant
jocular
peremptory
destitute
44. Truth: speaking the truth
veracious
succinct
dolorous
libidinous
45. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
antithetic
abstain
timorous
elegy
46. Hatred
demur
salutary
Petulant
hiatus
47. Funny
sooth
quiescent
acerbic
ludicrous
48. Poor: having no money
fell
discursive
altrustic
impecunious
49. Sorrow: gloomily
slake
morose
simulated
equivocate
50. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
temporal
euphonious
ascertain
mordant