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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. Copy: to imitate
jocular
emulate
respite
circumvent
2. Stubborn
rift
eulogize
martinet
obdurate
3. Sorrow
enigmatic
quotidian
expiate
plaintive
4. Harsh-Sounding:
courageous
Novitiate
irascible
dissonant
5. Diffcult ot understand: obscure
arcane
recidivism
lugubrious
accolade
6. Truth
abash
indisputable
recidivism
exacerbate
7. Boring: without indistinctive
insipid
evident
labyrinth
pithy
8. Prevent/Obstruct
Espouse
inhibit
Headlong
encumber
9. Pacify/Satisfy
dissonant
guile
defer
Advocate
10. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
optimum
fetid
plaintive
iniquity
11. Boring: usual
quotidian
deleterious
amulet
abstruse
12. Diffcult ot understand:
sidle
labyrinth
aphorism
recondite
13. Denying of self: extreme denial
ardor/ ardent
ascetic
miserly
amulet
14. Not a straight line: move sideways
baneful
ephemeral
sidle
despotic
15. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
chicanery
progenitor
capricious
obsequies
16. Weaken
vitiate
debauchery
undulating
covetous
17. Assist-To make more clear
ephemeral
careen
lament
Corroborate
18. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
droll
Inchoate
limpid
gullible
19. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
disconsolate
impugn
droll
appease
20. Criticize/criticism: berate sharply
objurgate
slothful
deleterious
melodious
21. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
ardor/ ardent
ephemeral
intractable
eon
22. Praise
fawn
trite
cryptic
miserly
23. Family: biologically ancestor
ludicrous
Syllabus
lethargic
progenitor
24. Prevent/Obstruct
antipathy
lackadaisical
sidle
inhibit
25. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
vituperate
Munificent
dour
augur
26. Nag: stubbornly adheres to rules
stoic
martinet
ribald
aperture
27. Copy: predecessor
inert
iconoclast
precursor
minatory
28. Terse: using few words
beneicent
mercenary
mitigate
laconic
29. Funny: a humor riducule
prevaricate
dolor
raillery
doctrinaire
30. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
peripatetic
palliate
macabre
aberrant
31. Harmful; full of menancing influence
baleful
naive
indolent
apocryphal
32. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
aphorism
gainsay
Mordant
magnanimous
33. Forgive:
Audacious
sepulchral
redress
rebarbative
34. Truth
fortuitous
equivocate
despotic
sincere
35. Not a straight line: grooved edge
berate
serrated
vituperation
lucid
36. Boring: lacking in freshness
Fledgling
trite
euphonious
naive
37. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
antedate
spurious
gaucherie
descry
38. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
epoch
circumvent
intransigent
temporal
39. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
waver
demise
pernicious
elegy
40. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
opaque
antecede
bacchanlian
carom
41. Walking About
rhetoric
esurient
sinuous
ambulatory
42. Changing quickly: changeable
auspicious
Precipiate
interjustice
volatile
43. Innocent/ Inexperienced
naive
appease
fatuous
obsequies
44. Sorrow: gloomily
Countenance
elegiac
morose
injurious
45. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
euphonious
obdurate
Petulant
revile
46. Assist-A person or thing that acts as chief support
Mainstay
berate
interjustice
reprobate
47. Hatred
torpid
reprehend
Inchoate
salutary
48. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
acrimonious
precursor
intractable
chicanery
49. Carousal: excessive indulgence
banal
debauchery
odium
Synopsis
50. Abbreviated Communication
intractable
Cursory
Compendium
Espouse