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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. Boring: dull
deleterious
conjugal
eclectic
pedestrian
2. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
chagrin
platitude
baleful
placate
3. Praise
orifice
laud/laudatory
abrogate
kismet
4. Lazy/ Sluggish
epigram
quiescent
dissemble
intransigent
5. Abbreviated Communication
mordacious
chortle
Compendium
bromide
6. Carousal:filthy
Proponet
rue
sordid
apothegm
7. Hostile
partisan
remonstrate
antithetic
peregrination
8. Gaps/Openings
obsequies
Cursory
interregnum
threnody
9. Forgive:
redress
chagrin
bemusing
demur
10. Praise: to praise highly
bacchanlian
tyrannical
eulogize
novitiate
11. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
esoteric
bereave
disconsolate
timorous
12. Unusual
bromide
iconoclast
flippant
melodious
13. Wandering
Munificent
elegiac
forage
counterpart
14. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
perfidious
acquit
vitiate
elegy
15. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
fortnight
lament
compunction
incipient
16. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
rhetoric
frankness
demur
grandiloquent
17. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
castigate
abrogate
anomaly
slothful
18. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
denounce
gibe
peregrination
bemusing
19. Bad Mood: Annoyance
enjoin
Umbrage
inveigh
Ancillary
20. Easy to understand:
destitute
lament
articulate
providental
21. Hatred: extreme repugnance
abhorrence
lethargic
aberration
rescind
22. Lazy/ Sluggish
slothful
noisome
incipient
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23. Wisdom: trite saying
bromide
torpid
enervate
rebuke
24. Dictorial: predominance
hegemonic
doctrinaire
perfidious
detestation
25. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
apothegm
strident
acidulous
salubrious
26. Pleasant-Sounding
inhibit
abeyance
harmonious
aberration
27. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
penurious
Umbrage
sinuous
exonerate
28. Stubborn: not obedient
acclaim
temporal
recalcitrant
indisputable
29. Investigate: to detect
satiate
descry
canard
stultify
30. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
misanthropic
opaque
recidivism
abatement
31. Assist
jocular
mercurial
Ancillary
veracious
32. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
hegemonic
enjoin
inveigh
diatribe
33. Criticize/criticism: to scold
idiosyncrasy
berate
doctrinaire
dour
34. Terse: using few words
articulate
laconic
clement
untoward
35. Denying of self:
stoic
limpid
Neophyte
Audacious
36. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
anomaly
platitude
dour
compendious
37. Wandering
venerate
expatiate
synchrounous
raucous
38. Truth: being true
periphrastic
verity
slake
opprobrium
39. Copy: exact copy
acerbic
facsimile
adventitious
pusillanimous
40. Wisdom: proverb
remonstrate
adage
meander
tendentious
41. Withdrawal/Retreat
abortive
irascible
dictum
bombastic
42. Death/ Mourning: dead/ not operating
askance
defunct
gainsay
mundane
43. Luck: marvelous
largess
Curtail
portentous
beneicent
44. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
ambiguous
temperate
ardor/ ardent
prevaricate
45. Embarrass: to feel regret
rue
Inchoate
banal
Wapish
46. Sorrow: mournful
naive
truism
doleful
placate
47. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
cacophony
abortive
melancholy
quotidian
48. Hesitate: to show doubt
waver
euphonious
truculent
curmudgeon
49. Boring: to make common by frequent use
iconoclast
fey
hackneyed
Mainstay
50. Death/ Mourning: visible spirit
anatagonism
Neophyte
torpid
wraith