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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. Copy: predecessor
precursor
ardor/ ardent
misanthropic
unctuous
2. Innocent/ Inexperienced: innocent
mundane
inexorable
ingenuous
palliate
3. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
ludicrous
impugn
obdurate
turbid
4. Harmful
Sustenance
abstain
insidious
odious
5. Wandering
vacillate
peregrination
mordacious
labyrinth
6. Copy: acting as a substitute
vicarious
pernicious
lament
succinct
7. Luck: fate
fealty
harrangue
indubitable
kismet
8. Forgive: free from guilt
fell
absolve
talisman
discomfort
9. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
insipid
gainsay
inhibit
debauchery
10. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
impede
hector
Curtail
fissure
11. Boring: foolish
fatuous
equivocate
Cursory
Asperity
12. Diffcult ot understand:
appraise
turpitude
iconoclast
ambiguous
13. Boring: dull
Wapish
prosaic
rapacious
torpid
14. Praise: honor
aggrandize
Precipiate
expatiate
ameliorate
15. Predict; fated to die
Audacious
fey
discursive
pettish
16. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
libertine
askance
gullible
calmuny
17. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
optimum
baleful
Espouse
Petulant
18. Hostile: boorish; rude
pillory
churlish
peruse
harmonious
19. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
renitent
recalcitrant
succinct
diatribe
20. Greedy: inordinately greedy
counterpart
epoch
venal
rapacious
21. Time/Duration/Order; indefinetly lon period of time
vindicate
debauchery
turpitude
eon
22. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
garrulous
synchrounous
opprobrium
tyrannical
23. Changing quickly: changeable
sepulchral
volatile
vindicate
Abrupt
24. Not a straight line: rotartory movement
vortex
dolorous
axiom
obsitnate
25. Sorrow: gloomily
morose
pernicious
loathing
equitable
26. Nag: to urge
apothegm
hector
vituperate
admonish
27. Gaps/Openings:
ciruitous
renitent
aperture
perfidious
28. Wisdom
cacophony
dictum
rapacious
harrangue
29. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
pettish
millennium
riposte
abrogate
30. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
fealty
rescind
Inchoate
erroneous
31. Praise
laud/laudatory
anterior
Cursory
sententious
32. Unusual: perculiar manner
idiosyncrasy
lambaste
sinuous
paradigm
33. Copy: likness
simulated
disingenuous
rhetoric
libidinous
34. Praise: to praise highly
oscillate
progenitor
eulogize
interjustice
35. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
dictum
ambiguous
rhetoric
dissemble
36. Wisdom
truism
hegemonic
scion
oblique
37. Nasty
eloquent
noisome
doctrinaire
expiate
38. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
paradigm
trenchant
scathing
turpitude
39. Falsehood: decieve
defamation
duplicity
pithy
sincere
40. Easy to understand: clear
Terse
doleful
limpid
exonerate
41. Funny: waggish
aspersion
Fledgling
mordant
jocular
42. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
aberrant
labyrinth
banal
anomalous
43. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
Compendium
Munificent
mordacious
circumvent
44. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
epoch
circumvent
lament
contrition
45. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
zealot
authoritarian
inert
mercurial
46. Truth
Apace
loathing
conjugal
probity
47. Generous/Kind:
munificent
doctrinaire
timorous
sidle
48. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
synchrounous
peremptory
filial
licentious
49. Prevent/Obstruct
disingenuous
quintessence
reproof
inhibit
50. Assist
Ancillary
ostensible
serrated
forlorn