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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. Praise: any honor
candor/candid
accolade
rue
churlish
2. Truth: speaking the truth
vitiate
veracious
mollify
archaic
3. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
pillory
perspicacious
exculpate
Syllabus
4. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
authoritarian
inert
assay
inveigh
5. Not a straight line: turn to side
awry
abatement
remonstrate
careen
6. Generous/Kind:
circumvent
largess
pusillanimous
volatile
7. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
fulsome
hegemonic
esoteric
acerbic
8. Dictorial: imperious
chortle
gaucherie
peremptory
mordacious
9. Prevent/Obstruct
archaic
auspice
encumber
vindictive
10. Boring: usual
enjoin
Fledgling
stoic
quotidian
11. Falsehood
fetid
apocryphal
reproof
dour
12. Falsehood: misleading
sooth
adventitious
dither
fallacious
13. Copy: likness
lull
exhort
banal
simulated
14. Truth
mordant
sincere
chortle
caustic
15. Hatred: extreme repugnance
Abridge
euphonious
abhorrence
berate
16. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
antecede
quintessence
melancholy
dissemble
17. Beginning/Young: procreate
rhetoric
torpid
Engender
indigent
18. Dictorial: overbearing
satiate
imperious
baneful
assuage
19. Boring: dull
prognosticate
pedestrian
bacchanlian
expiate
20. Stubborn: resistant
beneficial
sordid
renitent
malevolent
21. Withdrawal/Retreat
aberration
recant
lethargic
fawn
22. Copy: to imitate
mollify
abstruse
emulate
curt
23. Truth
fawn
probity
sententious
conjugal
24. Denying of self:
miserly
salubrious
recreant
abnegate
25. Dictorial: predominance
hegemonic
unstinting
mundane
curt
26. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
stultify
odious
hinder
sepulchral
27. Family: having same ancestry
consanguine
auspicious
scion
Abet
28. Sorrow
ribald
amulet
spurious
plaintive
29. Falsehood: speak falsely
gibe
compunction
prevaricate
verity
30. Sorrow
oblique
lament
acclaim
slake
31. Forgive: relieve from crime
sojourn
truculent
acquit
appraise
32. Truth: cannot be doubted
indubitable
caustic
baneful
reprobate
33. Withdrawal/Retreat
eulogize
recidivism
mollify
opprobrium
34. Funny:
facetious
satiate
undulating
pithy
35. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
pillory
odium
defile
antecede
36. Forgive: to clear
vindicate
anomaly
hinder
morose
37. Greedy
ameliorate
rapacious
Precipiate
miserly
38. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
millennium
cryptic
dissonant
labyrinth
39. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
scathing
discrete
aggrandize
acidulous
40. Greedy: extremely stingy
Umbrage
abortive
insipid
penurious
41. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
harrangue
demur
fell
largess
42. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
equivocate
naive
tyro
despotic
43. Hatred: intense dislike
recidivism
odium
fortuitous
obscure
44. Boring: lack of originality
doctrinaire
intransigent
banal
foible
45. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
demur
licentious
ersatz
lucid
46. Not a straight line: to go around
cryptic
defile
circumvent
defunct
47. Falsehood
kismet
grandiloquent
spurious
ingenuous
48. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
berate
pedestrian
Neophyte
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49. Easy to understand
eloquent
temperate
melancholy
disconsolate
50. Timid/timidity: cowardly
chagrin
baleful
obsitnate
craven