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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. Criticize/criticism: to scold
riposte
berate
turgid
prescient
2. Carousal: full of sexual act
inveigh
forage
ersatz
libidinous
3. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
mercenary
licentious
rapacious
palliate
4. Poor
Curtail
spurious
sooth
destitute
5. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
Pique
reprobate
fatuous
Mordant
6. Wisdom
tyrannical
truism
indigent
naive
7. Easy to understand: clear
rift
limpid
obscure
churlish
8. Easy to understand: clear
eloquent
curt
cogent
equivocate
9. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
noxious
bemusing
deleterious
abjure
10. Boring: dull
pedestrian
hackneyed
libidinous
providental
11. Carousal: vulgar speech
garrulous
ribald
enmity
fetter
12. Copy: exact copy
facsimile
remission
Impetuous
platitude
13. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
truism
spartan
raillery
opaque
14. Pacify/Satisfy
adulterate
indigent
assuage
portentous
15. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
probity
obsequies
asperity
ascetic
16. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
tendentious
avaricious
indigent
Inchoate
17. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
discrete
amulet
antipathy
fervid
18. Unusual
prescient
iconoclast
mitigate
rancor
19. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
interregnum
descry
quintessence
grandiloquent
20. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
encomium
specious
torpid
gaucherie
21. Investigate: to estimate value
appraise
fetid
anterior
prevaricate
22. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
remission
limpid
truism
aberration
23. Truth
enervate
sincere
flippant
Advocate
24. Lazy/ Sluggish
opprobrium
lethargic
Umbrage
quotidian
25. Falsehood: deception
peregrination
opprobrium
mitigate
chicanery
26. Stubborn: to annoy
platitude
vexing
philanthropic
rapacious
27. Funny: waggish; humorous
facsimile
articulate
droll
taciturn
28. Falsehood: decieve
morose
duplicity
fissure
distaff
29. Gaps/Openings
cirumlocution
intractable
respite
dissemble
30. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): miserable
philanthropic
opaque
fell
baleful
31. Wandering
rancor
forage
turbid
abnegation
32. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
optimum
belittle
vitiate
filial
33. Hesitate: vacillate
prevaricate
dither
endogamous
orifice
34. Changing quickly: erractic
defile
mollify
capricious
verbose
35. Nag: to urge
providental
peregrination
Querulous
exhort
36. Diffcult ot understand:
recondite
abash
unctuous
salacious
37. Equal: fairness
portentous
quintessence
partisan
equitable
38. Generous/Kind: kindness
stultify
din
beneicent
sententious
39. Gaps/Openings: reduction
eulogize
mitigate
abatement
demur
40. Terse: using few words
antipathy
exhort
laconic
fetter
41. Carousal: corrupt
mollify
simulated
depraved
fortuitous
42. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
perspicacious
hector
meander
assuage
43. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
erudite
lament
admonish
esoteric
44. Truth: speaking the truth
veracious
platitude
pernicious
enervate
45. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
diurnal
fortuitous
baneful
gibe
46. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
careen
appraise
riposte
Terse
47. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
dissonant
exhort
Inchoate
Abridge
48. Hatred: extreme repugnance
untoward
equity
abhorrence
sonorous
49. Bad Mood: Cranky
vituperate
Bilious
indisputable
lambaste
50. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
truculent
impede
inimical
Tyro