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SAT Word Groups
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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: expressing sorrow
intractable
perfidy
ameliorate
elegiac
2. Copy: acting as a substitute
bereave
dictum
eulogize
vicarious
3. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
excoriate
castigate
recondite
recidivism
4. Weaken
simulated
inhibit
beneficial
iconoclast
5. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
esoteric
indolent
sententious
reproof
6. Sorrow
quiescent
redress
plaintive
ephemeral
7. Pacify/Satisfy
mordacious
defer
ephemeral
equity
8. Nag;
assuage
absolve
hector
invidious
9. Forgive: to relieve
palliate
trite
doleful
adulterate
10. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
fortend
Novitiate
opprobrium
temporal
11. Forgive: relieve from crime
temporal
phlegmatic
acquit
facetious
12. Smart/Learned
augur
sidle
mercenary
canny
13. Boring: to make common by frequent use
doleful
tendentious
Neophyte
hackneyed
14. Falsehood
facetious
dolor
gullible
spurious
15. Falsehood
partisan
Mainstay
apocryphal
putrid
16. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
craven
oblique
defunct
dissipated
17. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
epigram
interregnum
laconic
fervid
18. Equal: fair
filial
equity
remonstrate
anathema
19. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scornful
antecede
counterpart
sardonic
belabor
20. Embarrass: awkwardness
gaucherie
sepulchral
contrition
Espouse
21. Family: marriage
inhibit
salacious
detestation
conjugal
22. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
bereave
defamation
abrogate
turbid
23. Embarrass: quality of being different
Corroborate
Countenance
novitiate
diffidence
24. Innocent/ Inexperienced: state of being novice
dissemble
novitiate
Abrupt
abash
25. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
Bilious
moribound
turgid
insidious
26. Time/Duration/Order: marked by characteristic of earlier period
eon
novitiate
temperate
archaic
27. Easy to understand: clear
limpid
iniquity
quiescent
counterpart
28. Assist
elegiac
Countenance
dissonant
interjustice
29. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
hiatus
miserly
gibe
fetid
30. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
decry
truism
adventitious
ephemeral
31. Gaps/Openings: narrow opening
quiescent
fissure
belittle
bemusing
32. Stubborn: to annoy
vexing
bromide
eclectic
anachronism
33. Criticize/criticism: abuse
harrangue
pillory
Proselyte
riposte
34. Stubborn
mercurial
obdurate
Tyro
libertine
35. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
disingenuous
loquacious
cirumlocution
simulated
36. Overblown/ Wordy
sooth
rift
verbose
recant
37. Funny: a humor riducule
Impetuous
peremptory
abnegate
raillery
38. Hesitate: to show doubt
waver
pillory
insipid
vitriolic
39. Embarrass: to feel regret
abatement
irascible
obscure
rue
40. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
forage
simper
magnanimous
fealty
41. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
penultimate
tendentious
sententious
synchrounous
42. Stubborn: not obedient
idiosyncrasy
insidious
recalcitrant
antithetic
43. Overblown/ Wordy:
tirade
periphrastic
fortnight
strident
44. Truth: sincere in speech
Munificent
candor/candid
quotidian
limpid
45. Eccentric/ dissimilar: separate
discrete
vindicate
pithy
timorous
46. Harmful
obsitnate
oblique
injurious
partisan
47. Healthy
Callow
fealty
renitent
beneficial
48. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
erroneous
nascent
prognosticate
dolorous
49. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
inert
volatile
magnanimous
factitious
50. Gaps/Openings:
tendentious
redress
aperture
Precipiate