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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. Timid/timidity
respite
salubrious
pusillanimous
Burgeoning
2. Greedy: inordinately greedy
capricious
rapacious
timorous
Countenance
3. Boring: without indistinctive
insipid
fervid
impede
obsitnate
4. Harmful
Stalwart
invidious
bereave
insidious
5. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
esurient
consanguine
asperity
noisome
6. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
tirade
philanthropic
bereave
phlegmatic
7. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
doctrinaire
partisan
philanthropic
decry
8. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
fawn
moribound
Fledgling
din
9. Assist
palliate
fatuous
Ancillary
opaque
10. Praise: formal expression of high praise
slothful
diffident
cacophony
encomium
11. Hatred: loathed
sidle
calmuny
incipient
anathema
12. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
Dilettante
indolent
tyrannical
evident
13. Harmful
malice
injurious
Burgeoning
cogent
14. Wisdom
counterpart
aphorism
Bolster
recalcitrant
15. Beginner/ Amateur
fortnight
Dilettante
libertine
dour
16. Carousal: full of sexual act
esoteric
pernicious
portentous
libidinous
17. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
extol
turgid
Mainstay
encumber
18. Criticize/criticism: belitte
Apace
deride/ derisive
disparge
fatuous
19. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
articulate
aberration
quiescent
chagrin
20. Easy to understand:
articulate
obviate
loquacious
calmuny
21. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
erudite
recidivism
esurient
22. Not a straight line: round about
esoteric
ciruitous
adventitious
careen
23. Criticize/criticism: shameful
misanthropic
impugn
lethargic
opprobrium
24. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
capricious
apothegm
raucous
melancholy
25. Hostile: eaisly angered
oblique
inert
apothegm
irascible
26. Terse: using few words
epoch
stultify
Compendium
laconic
27. Wisdom
largess
archaic
remonstrate
sententious
28. Timid/timidity: fearflu
limpid
timorous
progenitor
disparge
29. Funny: waggish
reproof
jocular
lull
ingenuous
30. Hostile: cruel
inert
munificent
truculent
iconoclast
31. Investigate: to find out definitely
Umbrage
mercenary
ascertain
excoriate
32. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
serrated
incipient
enigmatic
auspicious
33. Falsehood: deception
interregnum
hackneyed
eon
chicanery
34. Forgive: free from guilt
abrogate
encumber
exonerate
evident
35. Beginning/Young: procreate
Engender
verity
lethargic
evident
36. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
mordant
decamp
Countenance
circumvent
37. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
obsequies
pedestrian
cirumlocution
lament
38. Denying of self: extreme denial
sonorous
decry
ascetic
exculpate
39. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
ardor/ ardent
spartan
clement
fervid
40. Easy to understand: clear
cogent
acquit
ephemeral
vicarious
41. Investigate: to detect
descry
stoic
perfidious
acerbic
42. Stubborn: not obedient
talisman
consanguine
moribound
recalcitrant
43. Nag: prescribe with authority
enjoin
Dilettante
sepulchral
guile
44. Funny: a humor riducule
odious
canard
raillery
unctuous
45. Praise
hiatus
ersatz
augur
extol
46. Funny
disparge
riposte
curt
Abet
47. Truth: faithfulness
fealty
enjoin
chicanery
dolorous
48. Withdrawal/Retreat: repeat
banal
interjustice
vicarious
rescind
49. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
tyro
chicanery
orifice
talisman
50. Stubborn: not able to appease
implacable
ephemeral
waver
abeyance