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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. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
cirumlocution
evident
gainsay
noxious
2. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
cogent
decry
occlued
esoteric
3. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
dauntless
ersatz
Bilious
tendentious
4. Nasty
beneicent
noxious
truism
careen
5. Embarrass: slight flaw
macabre
foible
altrustic
mordacious
6. Weaken
zealot
enervate
astute
obdurate
7. Nag: rebuke
Curtail
reproof
abhorrence
remonstrate
8. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
Abrupt
assuage
reprove
melancholy
9. Time/Duration/Order
perspicacious
temporal
truculent
rapacious
10. Forgive:
abstruse
defamation
redress
obsitnate
11. Assist- Support by argument
erudite
millennium
Advocate
pithy
12. Beginning/Young: procreate
acidulous
Callow
Engender
expatiate
13. Carousal: obscene
misanthropic
Fledgling
salacious
ersatz
14. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
mollify
lambaste
foible
retrograde
15. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
authoritarian
banal
Fledgling
stultify
16. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
askance
revile
irascible
clement
17. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
noisome
impede
synchrounous
verity
18. Criticize/criticism: blame
exonerate
obloquy
fatuous
reprehend
19. Act quickly
ascertain
bacchanlian
Abrupt
distaff
20. Weaken
limpid
undermine
talisman
interregnum
21. Pacify/Satisfy
apocryphal
assuage
laconic
erroneous
22. Hatred: loathed
fissure
anathema
untoward
vicarious
23. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
recant
remonstrate
specious
sonorous
24. Sorrow: expressing sorrow
esurient
expiate
elegiac
interregnum
25. Dictorial: overbearing
imperious
obloquy
peruse
compunction
26. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
fervid
iniquity
mordacious
deride/ derisive
27. Embarrass: humiliation
baleful
rebuke
discomfort
chagrin
28. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
oscillate
malice
lackadaisical
pithy
29. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
lull
apocryphal
garrulous
untoward
30. Carousal:filthy
fulsome
sordid
facetious
apocryphal
31. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
strident
trenchant
aberrant
retrograde
32. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
adventitious
doctrinaire
pillory
fey
33. Sorrow
plaintive
iconoclast
forage
unstinting
34. Wandering
canard
forage
Terse
chortle
35. Hostile: eaisly angered
lament
forlorn
irascible
gyrate
36. Boring: dull
dour
filial
vindicate
prosaic
37. Wisdom
fetid
dictum
penurious
abjure
38. Smart/Learned: clever
calmuny
prolix
articulate
astute
39. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
obsitnate
noxious
axiom
Syllabus
40. Timid/timidity: tremor
Audacious
trepidation
putrid
melodious
41. Eccentric/ dissimilar: made of different source
moribound
eclectic
undermine
harmonious
42. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
partisan
Mainstay
abrogate
Impetuous
43. Harmful: threatening
knell
minatory
peripatetic
facsimile
44. Insincere: lacking sincerity
enjoin
disingenuous
enervate
fatuous
45. Family:
peregrination
distaff
pusillanimous
canard
46. Harmful
odium
orifice
ciruitous
insidious
47. Poor: hungry greedy
esurient
reproof
perfidy
reprehend
48. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
irascible
inhibit
dour
irascible
49. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
calmuny
amulet
lambaste
debauchery
50. Lazy/ Sluggish:
archaic
Dilettante
reprehend
lackadaisical