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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. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
mordacious
Cursory
tendentious
decry
2. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
aberrant
emulate
martinet
impugn
3. Equal: fair
vituperate
discomfort
equity
deride/ derisive
4. Withdrawal/Retreat
emulate
recidivism
Bilious
palliate
5. Unusual: perculiar manner
sardonic
tirade
Mordant
idiosyncrasy
6. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
enjoin
ostensible
mitigate
assuage
7. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
putrid
harrangue
Querulous
Munificent
8. Luck: amulet
antecede
talisman
dauntless
truism
9. Harsh-Sounding
fealty
clement
dissonant
cacophony
10. Prevent/Obstruct
impede
vituperate
teeter
sooth
11. Weaken
diffidence
careen
irascible
stultify
12. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
perfidious
anomaly
descry
turbid
13. Changing quickly: changeable
lament
idiosyncrasy
volatile
indisputable
14. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
prolix
labyrinth
extol
turgid
15. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
Inchoate
frankness
fealty
aberration
16. Smart/Learned
acclaim
vindictive
contrition
canny
17. Sorrow: funeral song
prevaricate
erroneous
imperious
threnody
18. Falsehood
acrimonious
spurious
excoriate
Espouse
19. Wisdom: proverb
adage
prognosticate
baleful
orifice
20. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
irascible
chortle
minatory
equivocate
21. Wisdom
aphorism
abortive
synchrounous
adulterate
22. Not a straight line: side glance
zealot
askance
rapacious
adage
23. Bold:fearless
irascible
Proponet
pernicious
dauntless
24. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
Petulant
ludicrous
acidulous
incipient
25. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
amulet
foible
obsequies
scathing
26. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
mordant
deride/ derisive
Corroborate
malice
27. Insincere: conceal truth
opaque
dissemble
strident
discomfort
28. Not a straight line: move sideways
sidle
Wapish
noisome
curmudgeon
29. Wandering: passing aimlessly
aspersion
diffident
foible
discursive
30. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
expatiate
ameliorate
factitious
defer
31. Copy: duplication
abhorrence
remission
counterpart
peremptory
32. Copy: exact copy
spartan
facsimile
lambaste
satiate
33. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
peruse
palliate
belittle
cadaver
34. Copy: acting as a substitute
fortend
undulating
dissemble
vicarious
35. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
stoic
garrulous
Advocate
optimum
36. Carousal: wicked
torpid
sonorous
iniquity
adage
37. Truth
insipid
ambulatory
propitiate
probity
38. Hatred
droll
garrulous
salubrious
salutary
39. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
bacchanlian
cryptic
verbose
extol
40. Falsehood: crafty deception
Corroborate
injurious
guile
doleful
41. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
credulous
odious
hiatus
indubitable
42. Innocent/ Inexperienced: state of being novice
novitiate
lethargic
Pique
antecede
43. Prevent/Obstruct
anathema
portentous
Querulous
inhibit
44. Pleasant-Sounding
obdurate
abnegation
euphonious
aphorism
45. Criticize/criticism: mock
Engender
feigned
courageous
deride/ derisive
46. Forgive: relieve from crime
disconsolate
inhibit
acquit
raillery
47. Investigate: to estimate value
rancor
pedestrian
encomium
appraise
48. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
awry
indigent
abstain
itinerant
49. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
canny
disconsolate
axiom
euphonious
50. Hostile: revengeful spirit
vindictive
abhorrence
mercurial
pillory