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. Greedy: inordinately greedy
rapacious
intransigent
licentious
meander
2. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
labyrinth
quintessence
ludicrous
trite
3. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
Neophyte
abrogate
dogmatic
retrograde
4. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
elegiac
tendentious
exculpate
factitious
5. Boring:dull remark
platitude
courageous
Stalwart
prognosticate
6. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
exacerbate
anachronism
evident
quintessence
7. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
vindictive
sardonic
esoteric
dissemble
8. Diffcult ot understand
Pique
mollify
obscure
strident
9. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
levity
fetid
despotic
cacophony
10. Hostile: revengeful spirit
Sustenance
decry
vindictive
undermine
11. Withdrawal/Retreat: repeat
loathing
rebarbative
palliate
rescind
12. Family: person who kill his or her brother
abjure
fratricide
cadaver
satiate
13. Bad Mood: peevish
reprove
dauntless
dictum
pettish
14. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
dour
pellucid
epoch
licentious
15. Pacify/Satisfy
expiate
probity
gyrate
appease
16. Poor: hungry greedy
appease
magnanimous
esurient
lethargic
17. Nag;
platitude
assay
hector
Bolster
18. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
cryptic
obdurate
castigate
simper
19. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
portentous
disconsolate
detestation
elegy
20. Forgive: make amends
interjustice
expiate
Countenance
remonstrate
21. Investigate: examine in detail
truism
auspice
peruse
demise
22. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
fetter
Engender
esoteric
rent
23. Bold: Brave
vitiate
craven
sardonic
courageous
24. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
trenchant
quintessence
reprobate
vindicate
25. Stubborn: not able to appease
implacable
prolix
Terse
dictum
26. Gaps/Openings:
guile
aperture
sojourn
probity
27. Forgive: free from guilt
fell
exonerate
rift
inert
28. Insincere: moralistic fervor
limpid
raucous
unctuous
reproof
29. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
denounce
fulsome
spurious
acerbic
30. Boring: foolish
fatuous
Dudgeon
remonstrate
millennium
31. Prevent/Obstruct
discomfort
defamation
teeter
peruse
32. Funny
rapacious
riposte
encumber
carom
33. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
diatribe
lackadaisical
enervate
Umbrage
34. Hesitate: to show doubt
enervate
waver
abeyance
putrid
35. Greedy: bribery
abhorrence
anathema
venal
anatagonism
36. Nag: long speech
harrangue
hinder
Compendium
ersatz
37. Greedy
noxious
miserly
eulogize
abatement
38. Terse: using few words
appease
laconic
enigmatic
malevolent
39. Harmful:
craven
deleterious
putrid
succinct
40. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
zealot
beneicent
inexorable
forlorn
41. Pleasant-Sounding
aperture
miserly
euphonious
remonstrate
42. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
abhorrence
fervid
rebuke
Syllabus
43. Weaken
Wapish
diatribe
covetous
adulterate
44. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
fetid
Mordant
Engender
detestation
45. Copy: acting as a substitute
vicarious
exculpate
lackadaisical
intransigent
46. Praise
rebuke
laud/laudatory
chortle
tyrannical
47. Assist
Espouse
untoward
lethargic
nascent
48. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
obviate
rebuke
defile
apocryphal
49. Praise
quintessence
deleterious
acquit
venerate
50. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
raucous
torpid
remonstrate
lament