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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. Sorrow
plaintive
ascetic
filial
encumber
2. Time/Duration/Order: 2 weeks
fortnight
forlorn
evident
curmudgeon
3. Assist
contrition
accolade
antipathy
Countenance
4. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
simper
doctrinaire
cryptic
lugubrious
5. Boring:dull remark
platitude
ostensible
dogmatic
dictum
6. Investigate: to detect
trite
recalcitrant
descry
meander
7. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
libertine
droll
Cursory
cogent
8. Stubborn: not obedient
curt
recalcitrant
ciruitous
inexorable
9. Time/Duration/Order: going before in time
din
bacchanlian
jocular
anterior
10. Falsehood: crafty deception
beneicent
Abrupt
sinuous
guile
11. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
turgid
indolent
putrid
facetious
12. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
decamp
aberration
ciruitous
aperture
13. Copy: exact copy
facsimile
malice
obdurate
berate
14. Criticize/criticism: blame
assuage
gaucherie
reprehend
tirade
15. Forgive: make amends
expiate
undermine
anomalous
abnegation
16. Stubborn: uncomprimising
dither
intransigent
Advocate
careen
17. Withdrawal/Retreat: give up
dissemble
doctrinaire
abnegation
conjugal
18. Sorrow
lugubrious
eulogize
indubitable
Proselyte
19. Gaps/Openings: narrow opening
bemusing
fissure
gainsay
mordant
20. Hostile: revengeful spirit
spurious
fealty
placate
vindictive
21. Not a straight line: to go around
circumvent
ingenuous
morose
incipient
22. Timid/timidity
retrograde
pusillanimous
candor/candid
Fledgling
23. Act quickly- Sudden or rash action/emotion
craven
Impetuous
ribald
irascible
24. Diffcult ot understand
sordid
intransigent
obscure
Compendium
25. Family:
dissemble
distaff
Querulous
tantamount
26. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): brutally harsh
truculent
zealot
verity
recondite
27. Poor
spurious
ersatz
putrid
destitute
28. Timid/timidity: fearflu
emulate
contrition
berate
timorous
29. Stubborn
obsitnate
propitiate
optimum
gibe
30. Boring: to make common by frequent use
hackneyed
absolve
baneful
iconoclast
31. Beginning/Young: procreate
lambaste
martinet
scathing
Engender
32. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
ascetic
melancholy
vexing
Burgeoning
33. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
Precipiate
awry
succinct
pedestrian
34. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
Tyro
consanguine
expiate
frankness
35. Stubborn: unalterable
teeter
Compendium
inexorable
remonstrate
36. Time/Duration/Order: 1000 year
simulated
pernicious
riposte
millennium
37. Wandering
naive
articulate
gyrate
forage
38. Luck
denounce
fortuitous
succinct
gyrate
39. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
chortle
astute
ersatz
libidinous
40. Easy to understand: clear
lucid
truculent
denounce
sordid
41. Death/ Mourning: visible spirit
acerbic
cirumlocution
wraith
raillery
42. Easy to understand: clear
bacchanlian
limpid
erudite
frankness
43. Easy to understand: clear
Petulant
euphonious
cogent
exacerbate
44. Carousal:filthy
sordid
simulated
ingenuous
undermine
45. Hatred
hegemonic
anomaly
apocryphal
loathing
46. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): violent condemnation
unctuous
vindicate
vituperation
apothegm
47. Falsehood: treachery
perfidy
Advocate
remission
decamp
48. Weaken
Abridge
Advocate
elegiac
inhibit
49. Funny: a humor riducule
raillery
obscure
fell
expiate
50. Hatred: habitual dislike
antipathy
gaucherie
dither
grandiloquent