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. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
filial
expiate
dissipated
rebuke
2. Eccentric/ dissimilar: made of different source
insidious
eclectic
odium
temporal
3. Predict; fated to die
prognosticate
encomium
idiosyncrasy
fey
4. Weaken
ersatz
dissemble
enervate
authoritarian
5. Lazy/ Sluggish:
admonish
indubitable
rebuke
lackadaisical
6. Wisdom
epigram
diffident
ascetic
sententious
7. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
antedate
gyrate
ciruitous
platitude
8. Boring: dull
irascible
aphorism
denounce
prosaic
9. Hesitate: to show doubt
trenchant
ardor/ ardent
decry
waver
10. Forgive: make amends
expiate
putrid
salutary
destitute
11. Luck: desirable
harrangue
optimum
inveigh
axiom
12. Wandering
mollify
forlorn
lethargic
expatiate
13. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
rebarbative
exacerbate
esurient
esoteric
14. Praise: formal expression of high praise
encomium
lucid
diffident
plaintive
15. Criticize/criticism: abusive language
Advocate
grandiloquent
obloquy
gyrate
16. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
magnanimous
adage
quintessence
abortive
17. Weaken
stultify
diffident
din
castigate
18. Terse: brief
spurious
appraise
pithy
enmity
19. Assist
dissemble
harmonious
Abet
lament
20. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
nascent
occlued
defunct
discrete
21. Hesitate: wobble
dissonant
Bolster
tantamount
teeter
22. Investigate: to estimate value
defer
appraise
anterior
impecunious
23. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
decamp
abnegate
enigmatic
raillery
24. Hatred: loathed
careen
anathema
intransigent
miserly
25. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
propitiate
mordant
abatement
mordacious
26. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
articulate
melancholy
kismet
quintessence
27. Timid/timidity: tremor
trepidation
gaucherie
anachronism
Abet
28. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
belabor
acidulous
objurgate
Precipiate
29. Prevent/Obstruct
encumber
intractable
inert
forlorn
30. Criticize/criticism: belitte
erroneous
malevolent
eclectic
disparge
31. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
loquacious
duplicity
lambaste
banal
32. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful/ give offense
invidious
defile
forage
quintessence
33. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
tirade
taciturn
belittle
factitious
34. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
loquacious
rift
scathing
antithetic
35. Funny
ephemeral
erroneous
largess
levity
36. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
decry
facetious
Audacious
Bolster
37. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
peremptory
Corroborate
optimum
Petulant
38. Weaken: elminate
Advocate
zealot
obviate
tantamount
39. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
Inchoate
Curtail
morose
talisman
40. Stubborn: improper
recidivism
untoward
philanthropic
curmudgeon
41. Disgusting/Offensive:
candor/candid
irascible
obscure
noisome
42. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
tendentious
spartan
obsequies
providental
43. Diffcult ot understand:
chicanery
fervid
impecunious
recondite
44. Funny
Tyro
sooth
baleful
ludicrous
45. Copy: duplication
counterpart
conjugal
emulate
anachronism
46. Dictorial: complete obedience
authoritarian
extol
limpid
fortend
47. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
anachronism
deleterious
recondite
kismet
48. Carousal: obscene
specious
reprehend
salacious
peregrination
49. Wisdom
talisman
epoch
aphorism
undulating
50. Harmful
pernicious
evident
exculpate
trite