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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. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
fatuous
Espouse
raillery
din
2. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
zealot
laconic
defile
dictum
3. Falsehood
lament
apocryphal
auspice
Pique
4. Investigate: to estimate value
obsitnate
ambiguous
appraise
foible
5. Hatred: extreme repugnance
abhorrence
melancholy
Fledgling
fealty
6. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
sinuous
deleterious
covetous
kismet
7. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
perspicacious
rent
taciturn
abnegation
8. Sorrow
bromide
untoward
naive
lugubrious
9. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
antedate
portentous
spartan
conjugal
10. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
adage
Asperity
authoritarian
Terse
11. Gaps/Openings:
pernicious
avaricious
portentous
aperture
12. Truth
doctrinaire
probity
archaic
lull
13. Falsehood: tellind lies
cavil
Callow
mendacious/ mendacity
lull
14. Luck: fate
kismet
tantamount
Engender
respite
15. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
dogmatic
specious
caustic
grandiloquent
16. Weaken
intransigent
vacillate
wraith
inhibit
17. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
putrid
ambiguous
lambaste
spartan
18. Equal: fairness
cacophony
equitable
capricious
baneful
19. Assist: Example Stalwart light house
Stalwart
Abet
ascetic
abnegation
20. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
prosaic
harrangue
ardor/ ardent
irascible
21. Hatred
detestation
interjustice
exacerbate
stoic
22. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
incipient
trepidation
abatement
distaff
23. Nasty
impecunious
noisome
lethargic
rescind
24. Death/ Mourning: death
demise
prevaricate
sooth
noisome
25. Family: a descendant
counterpart
moribound
mundane
scion
26. Healthy
apothegm
revile
belittle
beneficial
27. Family: having same ancestry
consanguine
anachronism
retrograde
odious
28. Nag: rebuke
Synopsis
tendentious
reproof
Tyro
29. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
cogent
hiatus
Fledgling
belittle
30. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
defer
mordacious
torpid
gullible
31. Stubborn: not obedient
recalcitrant
stoic
chagrin
recidivism
32. Funny
hector
enmity
doctrinaire
levity
33. Boring: without indistinctive
insipid
foible
demise
disingenuous
34. Harmful: threatening
excoriate
acidulous
minatory
aberrant
35. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
paradigm
Abrupt
simper
lambaste
36. Prevent/Obstruct
abatement
Headlong
encumber
temperate
37. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
trenchant
tendentious
Umbrage
aphorism
38. Pacify/Satisfy
irascible
beneicent
exhort
satiate
39. Withdrawal/Retreat
recant
perspicacious
abash
sardonic
40. Sorrow: mournful
doleful
fawn
phlegmatic
obsequies
41. Lazy/ Sluggish
oscillate
threnody
slothful
aperture
42. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
Cursory
hinder
incipient
dauntless
43. Predict: indicative
Countenance
portentous
spartan
enervate
44. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
equivocate
dissemble
aberrant
penultimate
45. Harmful; full of menancing influence
encomium
baleful
talisman
fratricide
46. Weaken
enervate
obscure
facsimile
nascent
47. Easy to understand:
pettish
fey
articulate
esurient
48. Easy to understand: clear
cogent
gullible
fortnight
ostensible
49. Pacify/Satisfy
mendacious/ mendacity
auspice
cacophony
assuage
50. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
misanthropic
enjoin
melodious
remonstrate