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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. Nag: find fault with uncertainty
reprehend
cavil
Umbrage
veracious
2. Investigate: to detect
sepulchral
sonorous
descry
plaintive
3. Diffcult ot understand: obscure
arcane
astute
meander
intransigent
4. Stubborn: not obedient
recalcitrant
Burgeoning
plaintive
hector
5. Assist- Support by argument
flippant
apothegm
Headlong
Advocate
6. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
apocryphal
salubrious
Pique
acquit
7. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
candor/candid
doctrinaire
courageous
assuage
8. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
Abrupt
obloquy
libertine
volatile
9. Timid/timidity: tremor
synchrounous
ascetic
trepidation
sidle
10. Denying of self:
sententious
lackadaisical
opprobrium
spartan
11. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
consanguine
elegy
salacious
gainsay
12. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
Inchoate
vortex
mordacious
sordid
13. Nag: long speech
harrangue
mordant
abnegate
fissure
14. Diffcult ot understand
lugubrious
mitigate
obscure
opprobrium
15. Forgive: free from guilt
exculpate
venerate
munificent
synchrounous
16. Timid/timidity: fearflu
lethargic
timorous
renitent
Impetuous
17. Eccentric/ dissimilar: made of different source
mendacious/ mendacity
putrid
bombastic
eclectic
18. Stubborn: unalterable
inexorable
idiosyncrasy
mercenary
deride/ derisive
19. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
retrograde
pernicious
rue
hackneyed
20. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
castigate
untoward
interjustice
sepulchral
21. Embarrass: awkwardness
authoritarian
inimical
gaucherie
ambiguous
22. Criticize/criticism: berate sharply
calmuny
perfidious
adventitious
objurgate
23. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
sententious
succinct
dissipated
synchrounous
24. Praise: to praise highly
eulogize
enmity
odium
defamation
25. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
acquit
garrulous
vituperate
indubitable
26. Bold:fearless
specious
pedestrian
tendentious
dauntless
27. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
spurious
exhort
elegiac
esoteric
28. Lazy/ Sluggish
quiescent
avaricious
anomaly
cryptic
29. Truth: being true
gibe
paradigm
verity
epoch
30. Sorrow; grief
denounce
dolor
Abridge
Novitiate
31. Greedy:
bemusing
abjure
arcane
avaricious
32. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
mollify
belittle
prosaic
impecunious
33. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
baleful
ludicrous
idiosyncrasy
meander
34. Sorrow
plaintive
itinerant
exonerate
feigned
35. Withdrawal/Retreat
ersatz
abortive
eon
pedestrian
36. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
specious
platitude
careen
implacable
37. Innocent/ Inexperienced
rebarbative
perfidy
naive
adventitious
38. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
inhibit
diatribe
precursor
vitriolic
39. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
misanthropic
untoward
Bilious
scathing
40. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
libertine
obsequies
excoriate
Precipiate
41. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
undulating
iconoclast
meander
anomaly
42. Greedy
covetous
abnegate
loquacious
ludicrous
43. Insincere: insincerely lavish
peripatetic
fulsome
Mordant
defamation
44. Copy: to imitate
appraise
baleful
emulate
curt
45. Easy to understand: plain
evident
chagrin
inhibit
trepidation
46. Not a straight line: turn to side
Sustenance
awry
Pique
vindictive
47. Embarrass: humiliation
iconoclast
anomalous
chicanery
chagrin
48. Luck: desirable
anatagonism
optimum
inhibit
occlued
49. Embarrass: to feel regret
encomium
rue
pillory
turpitude
50. Forgive: relieve from crime
platitude
anatagonism
acquit
contrition