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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. Lazy/ Sluggish
fatuous
idiosyncrasy
phlegmatic
iconoclast
2. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
ingenuous
obsequies
idiosyncrasy
zealot
3. Wandering
expatiate
facsimile
erroneous
altrustic
4. Pleasant-Sounding
hiatus
encomium
Countenance
harmonious
5. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
acerbic
eloquent
axiom
elegiac
6. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
lucid
gyrate
acclaim
placate
7. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
mordant
anterior
droll
anomalous
8. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
riposte
opaque
rebarbative
trite
9. Hesitate: vacillate
reproof
Asperity
dither
apocryphal
10. Death/ Mourning: visible spirit
factitious
Fledgling
wraith
inexorable
11. Criticize/criticism: shameful
Novitiate
anachronism
opprobrium
fortuitous
12. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
eulogize
dissemble
harrangue
hegemonic
13. Forgive: to relieve
truculent
Munificent
aggrandize
palliate
14. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
satiate
aberration
beneficial
malevolent
15. Predict; fated to die
caustic
abash
abrogate
fey
16. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
cryptic
veracious
debauchery
prosaic
17. Not a straight line: turn to side
vindictive
awry
tyro
recidivism
18. Weaken
adulterate
reproof
canard
oblique
19. Funny: a gleeful chuckle
adage
tyro
chortle
vindicate
20. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scornful
sardonic
aphorism
debauchery
invidious
21. Sorrow: mournful
indisputable
Tyro
antithetic
doleful
22. Withdrawal/Retreat
Abrupt
contrition
Apace
abortive
23. Luck
dissemble
discomfort
fortuitous
bacchanlian
24. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
miserly
Dilettante
calmuny
mendacious/ mendacity
25. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
timorous
tendentious
Precipiate
progenitor
26. Prevent/Obstruct
disconsolate
banal
hinder
abortive
27. Greedy
fetid
covetous
obloquy
precursor
28. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
anomaly
simper
dither
misanthropic
29. Generous/Kind:
largess
absolve
teeter
salacious
30. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
Umbrage
gyrate
Curtail
abrogate
31. Boring: dull
miserly
noisome
appease
prosaic
32. Hatred
vindicate
salutary
vacillate
encomium
33. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not in chronological time
dissonant
partisan
baleful
anachronism
34. Time/Duration/Order
odious
undermine
talisman
temporal
35. Boring: usual
gullible
vacillate
inscrutable
quotidian
36. Copy: exact copy
facetious
candor/candid
fell
facsimile
37. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
diffident
ephemeral
diffidence
lugubrious
38. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
anachronism
lethargic
renitent
discrete
39. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
salutary
adulterate
insidious
filial
40. Nag: stubbornly adheres to rules
extol
abstain
martinet
guile
41. Truth: candor
trenchant
articulate
frankness
exonerate
42. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
putrid
injurious
acquit
idiosyncrasy
43. Harmful
injurious
deleterious
caustic
redress
44. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
asperity
naive
propitiate
cogent
45. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
ingenuous
trite
contrition
feigned
46. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
Abet
partisan
Abridge
Munificent
47. Pacify/Satisfy
slake
Abet
lethargic
tendentious
48. Timid/timidity: fearflu
reproof
abjure
timorous
rhetoric
49. Pacify/Satisfy
Novitiate
acclaim
excoriate
assuage
50. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
quintessence
acidulous
odious
intractable