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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. Weaken: elminate
pernicious
obviate
providental
inimical
2. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
raillery
inhibit
erudite
inimical
3. Weaken
undermine
strident
denounce
lament
4. Hostile
prevaricate
levity
eulogize
antithetic
5. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
aberrant
enmity
pellucid
partisan
6. Death/ Mourning: near death
nascent
implacable
moribound
obscure
7. Time/Duration/Order: going before in time
anterior
lull
interregnum
dour
8. Harmful; full of menancing influence
fortuitous
compendious
aberration
baleful
9. Family: having same ancestry
indubitable
consanguine
discrete
remission
10. Prevent/Obstruct
impede
undulating
perspicacious
exonerate
11. Insincere: insincerely lavish
kismet
fortnight
volatile
fulsome
12. Harmful
cirumlocution
injurious
sojourn
foible
13. Lazy/ Sluggish:
unstinting
ambulatory
spartan
lackadaisical
14. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
vindicate
dissemble
ingenuous
Mordant
15. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
castigate
vindictive
impugn
malevolent
16. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
Terse
Fledgling
anterior
aphorism
17. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
belittle
morose
fealty
18. Forgive: free from guilt
strident
absolve
sincere
discrete
19. Prevent/Obstruct
retrograde
encumber
diurnal
abortive
20. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
Dudgeon
emulate
forlorn
gullible
21. Funny: to taunt; deride
duplicity
vitiate
vexing
gibe
22. Falsehood: misleading
Callow
fallacious
sardonic
sidle
23. Forgive: relieve from crime
idiosyncrasy
rift
acquit
munificent
24. Wisdom
oscillate
castigate
epigram
implacable
25. Wisdom: proverb
epoch
adage
encomium
reproof
26. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
adventitious
rent
fallacious
excoriate
27. Praise: honor
misanthropic
aggrandize
invidious
redress
28. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
diurnal
eclectic
bemusing
articulate
29. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
aspersion
taciturn
diatribe
orifice
30. Terse: using few words
laconic
defunct
dissemble
exacerbate
31. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
undulating
acidulous
Cursory
specious
32. Copy: to imitate
plaintive
caustic
emulate
endogamous
33. Boring:dull remark
encomium
platitude
munificent
sordid
34. Healthy
beneficial
forage
anathema
knell
35. Boring: usual
beneficial
quotidian
inert
pettish
36. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
Dudgeon
bemusing
peripatetic
acerbic
37. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
mordant
calmuny
fey
meander
38. Innocent/ Inexperienced: state of being novice
acclaim
novitiate
palliate
detestation
39. Withdrawal/Retreat
objurgate
meander
demur
craven
40. Luck: marvelous
portentous
tendentious
unctuous
appease
41. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
elegy
acrimonious
libidinous
temperate
42. Weaken
aphorism
defile
abstain
inhibit
43. Family:
rescind
distaff
oscillate
reproof
44. Harmful: threatening
minatory
diffidence
redress
prosaic
45. Wandering: temporary stay
rift
sojourn
reprobate
succinct
46. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
vortex
esoteric
antedate
sordid
47. Carousal: corrupt
depraved
vitriolic
serrated
mendacious/ mendacity
48. Time/Duration/Order
temporal
recidivism
mordacious
anomalous
49. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
aberration
din
Umbrage
facetious
50. Falsehood: speak falsely
aphorism
Proselyte
prevaricate
archaic