SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
SAT Word Groups
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Easy to understand: clear
pellucid
Stalwart
tendentious
rapacious
2. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
putrid
acidulous
oblique
fulsome
3. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
forlorn
defamation
sincere
expiate
4. Poor
succinct
despotic
enervate
destitute
5. Investigate: to find out definitely
perfidious
reprehend
ascertain
wraith
6. Stubborn: to annoy
vexing
enigmatic
ephemeral
enervate
7. Criticize/criticism: shameful
opprobrium
mundane
discrete
gullible
8. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
moribound
caustic
decry
vitiate
9. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
fealty
aggrandize
fetid
grandiloquent
10. Unusual
iconoclast
ameliorate
Headlong
temporal
11. Generous/Kind:
largess
equitable
rift
pithy
12. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): miserable
vexing
depraved
vindicate
baleful
13. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
remission
reprehend
tendentious
oblique
14. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
factitious
rebarbative
portentous
encumber
15. Sorrow: gloomily
morose
baleful
harrangue
acidulous
16. Copy: duplication
counterpart
anomaly
Precipiate
interjustice
17. Beginner/ Amateur:
garrulous
Proselyte
spurious
platitude
18. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
tantamount
trenchant
providental
belabor
19. Falsehood: speak falsely
prevaricate
Ancillary
belittle
axiom
20. Terse: reserved in speech
taciturn
waver
providental
remission
21. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
verity
authoritarian
Audacious
defile
22. Insincere: lacking sincerity
rent
disingenuous
awry
aperture
23. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
serrated
Burgeoning
torpid
facetious
24. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
martinet
expatiate
denounce
forage
25. Boring: usual
banal
guile
quotidian
laconic
26. Denying of self: self restrained
perspicacious
temperate
fulsome
abatement
27. Boring: dull
facetious
dogmatic
fealty
prosaic
28. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
penurious
iniquity
feigned
carom
29. Wisdom
sententious
pellucid
penurious
gullible
30. Copy: likness
enigmatic
epoch
simulated
prescient
31. Death/ Mourning: dead body
interregnum
cadaver
raillery
venal
32. Predict
prognosticate
counterpart
fetid
diurnal
33. Forgive: free from guilt
compendious
absolve
depraved
enjoin
34. Withdrawal/Retreat; temporary decrease
dissemble
remission
Wapish
ambiguous
35. Prevent/Obstruct
encumber
prognosticate
diffident
enmity
36. Walking About
hinder
dogmatic
altrustic
peripatetic
37. Funny: waggish
Mordant
jocular
hiatus
largess
38. Hostile: boorish; rude
millennium
Tyro
periphrastic
churlish
39. Carousal: excessive indulgence
debauchery
apocryphal
licentious
covetous
40. Boring:dull remark
detestation
axiom
inimical
platitude
41. Assist
propitiate
Proselyte
spurious
Espouse
42. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
peripatetic
Dudgeon
precursor
abjure
43. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
temperate
mollify
Fledgling
trite
44. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
Headlong
conjugal
gyrate
turpitude
45. Innocent/ Inexperienced: beginner in learning anything
lethargic
taciturn
tyro
cadaver
46. Falsehood: false story
Proponet
canard
belittle
palliate
47. Not a straight line: turn to side
awry
abstain
diffident
truism
48. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
laconic
inimical
Apace
licentious
49. Nag: find fault with uncertainty
satiate
cavil
defunct
lethargic
50. Generous/Kind: compassionate
defer
fulsome
antipathy
clement