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SAT Word Groups
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Subjects
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sat
,
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. Wisdom
simulated
venal
dictum
paradigm
2. Assist- Very Generous
platitude
Munificent
stoic
revile
3. Pleasant-Sounding
sonorous
peripatetic
Impetuous
oscillate
4. Overblown/ Wordy:
indigent
intransigent
periphrastic
dictum
5. Stubborn:
eon
askance
intractable
dauntless
6. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
indolent
antecede
encumber
lucid
7. Harmful
abstain
Ancillary
gaucherie
pernicious
8. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
synchrounous
esoteric
Ancillary
talisman
9. Luck: amulet
turbid
ersatz
talisman
extol
10. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
descry
ersatz
Headlong
demur
11. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
loquacious
acerbic
iniquity
bacchanlian
12. Luck: something by chance
adventitious
ambiguous
dissemble
laconic
13. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
Petulant
rhetoric
Syllabus
gaucherie
14. Weaken: elminate
banal
aperture
optimum
obviate
15. Forgive: free from guilt
tyro
absolve
excoriate
Curtail
16. Insincere: moralistic fervor
tirade
unctuous
intransigent
dogmatic
17. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
enmity
irascible
inert
excoriate
18. Overblown/ Wordy
mordant
acerbic
impede
verbose
19. Assist
Bolster
misanthropic
knell
curt
20. Harmful: threatening
minatory
facsimile
anatagonism
berate
21. Criticize/criticism: to scold
curmudgeon
invidious
berate
verbose
22. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
meander
Advocate
quintessence
ingenuous
23. Luck: presenting in favorable condition
vicarious
harrangue
waver
propitiate
24. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
vexing
obsequies
gainsay
vindicate
25. Wandering
encomium
trenchant
droll
peregrination
26. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
bromide
Inchoate
caustic
revile
27. Carousal: vulgar speech
dolorous
fawn
banal
ribald
28. Dictorial: opinionated
erudite
dogmatic
harrangue
indigent
29. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
equity
retrograde
adulterate
counterpart
30. Not a straight line: turn to side
fissure
tantamount
awry
unctuous
31. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): miserable
putrid
baleful
dictum
insipid
32. Predict: a favorable sign
impede
venal
factitious
auspice
33. Carousal: corrupt
depraved
awry
misanthropic
asperity
34. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
anomalous
aberrant
defer
turbid
35. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
esurient
propitiate
forlorn
dictum
36. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
rebarbative
renege
imperious
altrustic
37. Poor: lacking food
fetid
imperious
redress
indigent
38. Easy to understand:
reprobate
articulate
defunct
indolent
39. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
chagrin
opaque
tendentious
consanguine
40. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
dictum
curt
calmuny
noxious
41. Denying of self: self restrained
temperate
iconoclast
stultify
noxious
42. Truth
indisputable
chagrin
perfidy
Asperity
43. Truth
anathema
harmonious
millennium
probity
44. Family: biologically ancestor
perfidious
doctrinaire
progenitor
sardonic
45. Prevent/Obstruct
Neophyte
hinder
mitigate
libidinous
46. Act quickly
oblique
rent
invidious
Apace
47. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
evident
quintessence
churlish
defunct
48. Weaken: increase severity
abnegation
untoward
exacerbate
temporal
49. Assist
Espouse
placate
compunction
disparge
50. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
precursor
turbid
defile
odium