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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. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
knell
doctrinaire
decamp
lambaste
2. Carousal: excessive indulgence
platitude
debauchery
fervid
exculpate
3. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
equivocate
harrangue
irascible
euphonious
4. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
recant
moribound
Novitiate
morose
5. Funny
circumvent
fortnight
riposte
tantamount
6. Hatred
aggrandize
aspersion
detestation
rent
7. Truth
indisputable
sincere
ribald
Corroborate
8. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
Bilious
ardor/ ardent
acrimonious
assuage
9. Gaps/Openings
interregnum
fratricide
Ancillary
peruse
10. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
impugn
Tyro
discursive
enervate
11. Nag: long speech
canny
defer
harrangue
vicarious
12. Dictorial: opinionated
dogmatic
antedate
pusillanimous
dissemble
13. Dictorial: predominance
vituperate
vitiate
hegemonic
largess
14. Weaken
auspice
baneful
libertine
stultify
15. Denying of self:
emulate
penurious
intransigent
spartan
16. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
anomaly
hinder
prosaic
decamp
17. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
salubrious
ostensible
bromide
din
18. Wisdom
martinet
truism
ambiguous
ribald
19. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
abeyance
obviate
lackadaisical
forlorn
20. Lazy/ Sluggish
lethargic
beneficial
abjure
cavil
21. Pacify/Satisfy
esoteric
stoic
defer
rue
22. Funny: a silly smile
Dilettante
apocryphal
simper
vitriolic
23. Bad Mood: Complaining
waver
Querulous
obsitnate
malice
24. Praise: to solute
renege
garrulous
acclaim
fealty
25. Equal: fairness
ameliorate
berate
mordant
equitable
26. Dictorial: overbearing
revile
reprove
imperious
indolent
27. Pacify/Satisfy
malevolent
assuage
bereave
fortnight
28. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
axiom
ingenuous
hector
mitigate
29. Pleasant-Sounding
decry
slothful
melodious
dolorous
30. Time/Duration/Order
talisman
temporal
raucous
munificent
31. Prevent/Obstruct
abeyance
discomfort
obscure
enjoin
32. Falsehood: misleading
scion
prevaricate
fissure
fallacious
33. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
ardor/ ardent
verbose
objurgate
facetious
34. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
filial
guile
moribound
cacophony
35. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
mundane
decamp
succinct
descry
36. Assist
optimum
simper
timorous
Espouse
37. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
antedate
chicanery
iconoclast
credulous
38. Harmful:
satiate
limpid
ephemeral
deleterious
39. Criticize/criticism: shameful
nascent
opprobrium
tantamount
iniquity
40. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
placate
prevaricate
propitiate
sinuous
41. Sorrow
phlegmatic
knell
lugubrious
propitiate
42. Boring: without indistinctive
truculent
remonstrate
insipid
berate
43. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
Precipiate
mendacious/ mendacity
abjure
banal
44. Time/Duration/Order: 1000 year
millennium
nascent
rebuke
enmity
45. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
partisan
Proselyte
pellucid
nascent
46. Generous/Kind:
Apace
munificent
odious
sidle
47. Stubborn:
intractable
hackneyed
Impetuous
doctrinaire
48. Bad Mood: Cranky
Bilious
martinet
injurious
quotidian
49. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
rift
Tyro
gaucherie
compendious
50. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
sincere
vituperate
anatagonism
itinerant