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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: belitte
pillory
esoteric
spurious
disparge
2. Gaps/Openings
decry
obsequies
recreant
respite
3. Death/ Mourning: near death
deleterious
moribound
untoward
waver
4. Easy to understand: plain
mordant
mercurial
prognosticate
evident
5. Terse: brief
tantamount
lament
truism
pithy
6. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
recidivism
gaucherie
injurious
oblique
7. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): brutally harsh
truculent
equitable
Inchoate
Syllabus
8. Insincere: moralistic fervor
fell
unctuous
clement
archaic
9. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
disconsolate
stultify
knell
trenchant
10. Walking About
dissipated
acquit
fratricide
itinerant
11. Wandering
salubrious
eon
forage
dither
12. Falsehood: decieve
mordacious
injurious
disconsolate
duplicity
13. Assist: State of being sustained
remission
Sustenance
vortex
bombastic
14. Prevent/Obstruct
droll
impede
ascertain
undermine
15. Truth
Proselyte
abortive
fortnight
probity
16. Nag: to plead
inscrutable
abjure
remonstrate
Dudgeon
17. Copy: predecessor
defunct
verity
talisman
precursor
18. Copy: duplication
portentous
invidious
vexing
counterpart
19. Greedy: extremely stingy
penurious
harmonious
mendacious/ mendacity
epoch
20. Carousal: full of sexual act
Mordant
inimical
libidinous
stultify
21. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
ardor/ ardent
opprobrium
Ancillary
Neophyte
22. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
verity
aphorism
diurnal
serrated
23. Sorrow: expressing sorrow
elegiac
teeter
gainsay
ribald
24. Bold:fearless
conjugal
hackneyed
dauntless
ribald
25. Boring: dull
deride/ derisive
pedestrian
sojourn
equity
26. Denying of self:
inimical
stoic
Umbrage
partisan
27. Lazy/ Sluggish
bemusing
lull
phlegmatic
slothful
28. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
precursor
malevolent
libidinous
lethargic
29. Hostile: cruel
odious
Neophyte
elegiac
truculent
30. Nasty
vacillate
sepulchral
noisome
Mainstay
31. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
disconsolate
sepulchral
quintessence
penurious
32. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
venerate
melancholy
esoteric
dogmatic
33. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
craven
acclaim
turpitude
Syllabus
34. Hostile
sardonic
Audacious
antithetic
partisan
35. Gaps/Openings: reduction
acclaim
abatement
eulogize
asperity
36. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
esoteric
cavil
loquacious
Wapish
37. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
pusillanimous
platitude
enjoin
strident
38. Predict
magnanimous
Ancillary
prognosticate
abatement
39. Pleasant-Sounding
irascible
sonorous
pithy
bereave
40. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
vindictive
rent
lament
spurious
41. Forgive: free from guilt
fulsome
exonerate
esurient
exacerbate
42. Praise: any honor
accolade
garrulous
scion
plaintive
43. Stubborn
obsitnate
portentous
oscillate
taciturn
44. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
inimical
interjustice
din
defer
45. Hatred: intense dislike
simulated
odium
ameliorate
tyrannical
46. Hatred
rapacious
obscure
salutary
facetious
47. Stubborn
perfidious
laud/laudatory
impecunious
obdurate
48. Withdrawal/Retreat
abortive
odium
recondite
Mainstay
49. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
aphorism
astute
nascent
inert
50. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
waver
lambaste
gainsay
expiate