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SAT Word Groups
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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. Luck
doleful
laud/laudatory
fortuitous
ambulatory
2. Death/ Mourning: death
indigent
demise
eulogize
sententious
3. Investigate: to find out definitely
arcane
articulate
Precipiate
ascertain
4. Assist
Bolster
magnanimous
enigmatic
diffidence
5. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
dissemble
recreant
eclectic
Precipiate
6. Hostile: eaisly angered
churlish
diatribe
irascible
bombastic
7. Funny:
frankness
distaff
facetious
dither
8. Truth: speaking the truth
rent
veracious
castigate
Ancillary
9. Funny: lacking in seriouness
guile
ambiguous
flippant
sinuous
10. Criticize/criticism: shameful
absolve
opprobrium
Mainstay
exacerbate
11. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
Curtail
anomalous
inert
abortive
12. Wandering: passing aimlessly
discursive
raucous
fissure
partisan
13. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
Inchoate
implacable
sidle
Mordant
14. Terse: reserved in speech
Countenance
denounce
taciturn
abrogate
15. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
obviate
rent
antedate
canny
16. Bold: extremely daring
duplicity
canard
mercenary
Audacious
17. Praise
novitiate
venerate
doleful
temporal
18. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
archaic
nascent
indolent
waver
19. Harmful
erroneous
adulterate
bemusing
injurious
20. Beginning/Young: procreate
arcane
euphonious
curt
Engender
21. Funny: a humor riducule
extol
raillery
Umbrage
erroneous
22. Carousal: shameful
turpitude
rebuke
perfidy
Countenance
23. Luck: marvelous
portentous
facetious
obdurate
truism
24. Funny: to taunt; deride
acerbic
succinct
beneficial
gibe
25. Withdrawal/Retreat
bereave
sententious
renitent
recant
26. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
synchrounous
exhort
revile
belittle
27. Falsehood: crafty deception
guile
scathing
diffidence
aphorism
28. Forgive: free from guilt
exonerate
ambulatory
chagrin
peremptory
29. Criticize/criticism: blame
reprehend
epigram
inhibit
noisome
30. Hatred: loathed
mitigate
anathema
salacious
Munificent
31. Wisdom: instructive saying
apothegm
perfidious
trite
chicanery
32. Terse
respite
trepidation
Bilious
succinct
33. Family: a descendant
Ancillary
mollify
scion
placate
34. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
implacable
odious
Audacious
Ancillary
35. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
decamp
inscrutable
abeyance
excoriate
36. Hatred: opposite force
tirade
covetous
abjure
anatagonism
37. Stubborn: unalterable
inexorable
disparge
minatory
threnody
38. Family: marriage
cryptic
eloquent
conjugal
diurnal
39. Nag: to urge
admonish
baleful
Mainstay
despotic
40. Diffcult ot understand:
torpid
Engender
timorous
ambiguous
41. Weaken: elminate
ascertain
diurnal
obviate
truculent
42. Praise
paradigm
emulate
circumvent
extol
43. Harmful
pernicious
defer
eulogize
waver
44. Nag: long speech
harrangue
evident
calmuny
serrated
45. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
sordid
admonish
sinuous
taciturn
46. Wandering
impede
auspice
forage
venal
47. Greedy
undulating
Sustenance
dauntless
miserly
48. Diffcult ot understand:
expatiate
recondite
equivocate
gibe
49. Predict: a favorable sign
odious
auspice
assay
peregrination
50. Truth: cannot be doubted
lament
indubitable
Umbrage
slake