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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. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
diffident
penultimate
equitable
dissemble
2. Hostile
vicarious
incipient
hackneyed
misanthropic
3. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): violent condemnation
munificent
vituperation
probity
duplicity
4. Pacify/Satisfy
defer
adage
equivocate
excoriate
5. Carousal: excessive indulgence
diatribe
synchrounous
Bolster
debauchery
6. Prevent/Obstruct
awry
encumber
enervate
hinder
7. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
aberrant
torpid
gyrate
vortex
8. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
undermine
hegemonic
counterpart
irascible
9. Prevent/Obstruct
nascent
discomfort
frankness
ciruitous
10. Pacify/Satisfy
inscrutable
slake
enmity
noxious
11. Bold: Brave
irascible
courageous
erudite
capricious
12. Falsehood: give false appearance
aberrant
dissemble
antecede
periphrastic
13. Family: person who kill his or her brother
ribald
Countenance
Apace
fratricide
14. Nag: prescribe with authority
fallacious
meander
enjoin
loathing
15. Boring: lacking in freshness
trite
occlued
obdurate
discomfort
16. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
anomaly
portentous
rebuke
libidinous
17. Wisdom
platitude
fetid
Mainstay
abjure
18. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
cirumlocution
probity
specious
trenchant
19. Falsehood
talisman
prolix
adulterate
spurious
20. Withdrawal/Retreat
naive
acidulous
recant
dissemble
21. Prevent/Obstruct
beneficial
encumber
serrated
dauntless
22. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
credulous
recondite
vitriolic
compunction
23. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
iniquity
platitude
quintessence
macabre
24. Copy: acting as a substitute
vicarious
meander
tyrannical
nascent
25. Timid/timidity: cowardly
craven
providental
dolorous
Asperity
26. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
Synopsis
lambaste
magnanimous
impede
27. Walking About
Wapish
eclectic
recant
peripatetic
28. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
demur
dissemble
labyrinth
irascible
29. Falsehood: misleading
fallacious
simulated
reprove
dolorous
30. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
impugn
kismet
tendentious
sincere
31. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
axiom
libidinous
optimum
exonerate
32. Falsehood: tellind lies
mendacious/ mendacity
antecede
abash
appraise
33. Embarrass: humiliation
temperate
excoriate
compendious
chagrin
34. Predict: indicative
portentous
salutary
capricious
Stalwart
35. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
reprobate
scathing
acclaim
expatiate
36. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
dither
zealot
trenchant
stultify
37. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
Mainstay
abeyance
Asperity
irascible
38. Luck: protecting charm
bereave
amulet
deride/ derisive
obsitnate
39. Sorrow: expressing sorrow
elegiac
descry
mercurial
Proselyte
40. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): brutally harsh
peruse
truculent
demur
augur
41. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
prolix
Curtail
labyrinth
Querulous
42. Time/Duration/Order
discursive
recant
propitiate
temporal
43. Greedy:
stultify
admonish
avaricious
excoriate
44. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
vituperate
decamp
bacchanlian
Inchoate
45. Predict
augur
mordacious
oscillate
antithetic
46. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
sepulchral
redress
discrete
incipient
47. Not a straight line: move sideways
distaff
sidle
emulate
malice
48. Withdrawal/Retreat; temporary decrease
remission
vituperation
occlued
archaic
49. Easy to understand: clear
asperity
cogent
fey
salutary
50. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
gullible
waver
feigned
phlegmatic