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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. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
exculpate
melodious
slothful
excoriate
2. Funny
Bilious
encumber
ameliorate
levity
3. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
recidivism
renege
antedate
appease
4. Hostile: boorish; rude
harrangue
churlish
mendacious/ mendacity
pedestrian
5. Luck: marvelous
ingenuous
exhort
portentous
dolor
6. Not a straight line: round about
indolent
ciruitous
Bolster
nascent
7. Death/ Mourning: mournful
inhibit
dolorous
Audacious
libidinous
8. Pacify/Satisfy
progenitor
satiate
unstinting
idiosyncrasy
9. Stubborn: to annoy
waver
abrogate
lament
vexing
10. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
unctuous
decry
sepulchral
anachronism
11. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
noxious
acidulous
unctuous
sidle
12. Beginning/Young: procreate
fulsome
equivocate
insipid
Engender
13. Bad Mood: Snappish
Wapish
irascible
exonerate
reproof
14. Hatred
oscillate
loathing
archaic
vituperate
15. Prevent/Obstruct
Precipiate
mitigate
occlued
lugubrious
16. Nag: long speech
insidious
harrangue
garrulous
ambiguous
17. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
Bolster
recidivism
magnanimous
indubitable
18. Family: having same ancestry
ribald
consanguine
dolor
eon
19. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
deride/ derisive
vituperation
enigmatic
fervid
20. Praise: to praise highly
melodious
eulogize
frankness
equitable
21. Bold:fearless
dauntless
abnegate
craven
vitiate
22. Falsehood: crafty deception
guile
anomalous
pillory
kismet
23. Falsehood: false story
perfidy
canard
itinerant
equity
24. Criticize/criticism: mock
Pique
ostensible
erroneous
deride/ derisive
25. Boring: to make common by frequent use
revile
rapacious
rift
hackneyed
26. Easy to understand: clear
hinder
awry
moribound
lucid
27. Gaps/Openings
limpid
libertine
rhetoric
interregnum
28. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
redress
churlish
abjure
appraise
29. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
Inchoate
awry
cirumlocution
emulate
30. Hatred: loathed
anathema
scion
melodious
reprove
31. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
penurious
irascible
erudite
Corroborate
32. Prevent/Obstruct
authoritarian
discursive
jocular
fetter
33. Falsehood: speak falsely
itinerant
prevaricate
dissemble
ephemeral
34. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
plaintive
epigram
diffident
anomaly
35. Wandering: passing aimlessly
demur
discursive
lull
doleful
36. Harmful
vitriolic
insidious
dolorous
Audacious
37. Truth: candor
orifice
serrated
occlued
frankness
38. Death/ Mourning: death
demise
encomium
eclectic
Bolster
39. Nasty: stinking
Dudgeon
fetid
diffident
Corroborate
40. Boring: lack of originality
ciruitous
banal
enmity
diffidence
41. Act quickly
pillory
oblique
Abrupt
accolade
42. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
destitute
insidious
nascent
Burgeoning
43. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
nascent
cadaver
loquacious
reprehend
44. Copy: acting as a substitute
indolent
exonerate
excoriate
vicarious
45. Predict: indicative
indisputable
portentous
redress
exhort
46. Boring: lacking in freshness
beneicent
recondite
trite
recant
47. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
libertine
caustic
fell
rhetoric
48. Death/ Mourning: bell made for a funeral
endogamous
Munificent
laud/laudatory
knell
49. Assist
Espouse
sinuous
renitent
magnanimous
50. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
defamation
vitriolic
encumber
fallacious