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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. Falsehood: speak falsely
prevaricate
esoteric
facetious
turbid
2. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
reproof
stoic
antipathy
sepulchral
3. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
Neophyte
obsitnate
malice
palliate
4. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
libertine
erroneous
opaque
pellucid
5. Wisdom
accolade
Dilettante
prosaic
truism
6. Act quickly
chortle
contrition
penultimate
Abrupt
7. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
contrition
scathing
malevolent
propitiate
8. Boring: to make common by frequent use
hackneyed
eon
intractable
Mainstay
9. Nag: to urge
perspicacious
acidulous
admonish
impecunious
10. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
salacious
reprove
impecunious
orifice
11. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
trenchant
foible
lament
expatiate
12. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
prevaricate
ribald
melancholy
diffident
13. Bold: extremely daring
misanthropic
Audacious
gaucherie
asperity
14. Poor: hungry greedy
abnegate
Tyro
esurient
Novitiate
15. Forgive: free from guilt
absolve
venal
Curtail
debauchery
16. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
indolent
lethargic
belittle
Mordant
17. Easy to understand: clear
cogent
libidinous
fetter
strident
18. Carousal: excessive indulgence
dissipated
debauchery
mollify
ephemeral
19. Bad Mood: peevish
mendacious/ mendacity
ambulatory
pettish
lackadaisical
20. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
doleful
erroneous
rescind
caustic
21. Death/ Mourning: mournful
articulate
misanthropic
fealty
dolorous
22. Wandering
scion
peregrination
factitious
sincere
23. Insincere: lacking sincerity
raillery
disingenuous
sooth
vacillate
24. Family: marriage
denounce
conjugal
prognosticate
vitriolic
25. Bold: Brave
diffidence
erroneous
courageous
garrulous
26. Hatred: loathed
orifice
anathema
Compendium
banal
27. Forgive: to clear
fealty
fratricide
vindicate
prescient
28. Assist: State of being sustained
prognosticate
Sustenance
implacable
aspersion
29. Hesitate: wobble
scion
teeter
remonstrate
indolent
30. Prevent/Obstruct
novitiate
bromide
hinder
placate
31. Forgive: free from guilt
volatile
recalcitrant
fetid
exculpate
32. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
vicarious
auspice
penultimate
gibe
33. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
Headlong
talisman
contrition
askance
34. Disgusting/Offensive:
noisome
opprobrium
revile
taciturn
35. Diffcult ot understand
apothegm
invidious
irascible
obscure
36. Assist
Countenance
scathing
adulterate
talisman
37. Family: having same ancestry
Espouse
admonish
accolade
consanguine
38. Criticize/criticism: abuse
pillory
recidivism
Abet
epigram
39. Denying of self:
eloquent
astute
spartan
careen
40. Luck: fortunate
nascent
providental
pellucid
tyrannical
41. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
meander
phlegmatic
zealot
salubrious
42. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
cavil
ameliorate
facsimile
calmuny
43. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
appraise
fetid
rift
defamation
44. Investigate: examine in detail
tendentious
peruse
recalcitrant
recondite
45. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
ameliorate
fratricide
rebuke
anterior
46. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
aspersion
beneficial
Espouse
moribound
47. Sorrow: mournful
turpitude
sinuous
foible
doleful
48. Hatred: extreme repugnance
libertine
abhorrence
ersatz
amulet
49. Nag: rebuke
perfidy
salutary
reproof
oblique
50. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
inscrutable
prolix
aperture
licentious