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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Stubborn
minatory
obdurate
appease
Advocate
2. Predict
Abrupt
ephemeral
philanthropic
augur
3. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
placate
martinet
deleterious
Wapish
4. Falsehood: treachery
Pique
peruse
exhort
perfidy
5. Harmful; full of menancing influence
opprobrium
libertine
baleful
stoic
6. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
dour
periphrastic
fissure
anterior
7. Copy: exact copy
facsimile
sincere
perspicacious
aggrandize
8. Funny: a gleeful chuckle
vicarious
verity
slothful
chortle
9. Lazy/ Sluggish
circumvent
torpid
timorous
emulate
10. Sorrow
tantamount
inveigh
plaintive
adage
11. Generous/Kind
unstinting
astute
perfidious
fatuous
12. Sorrow: mournful
doleful
insidious
dour
intransigent
13. Predict
eclectic
prognosticate
chicanery
lugubrious
14. Easy to understand:
rescind
Mainstay
Querulous
articulate
15. Forgive: relieve from crime
Espouse
depraved
Mordant
acquit
16. Embarrass: slight flaw
philanthropic
foible
emulate
auspicious
17. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
turgid
enigmatic
belittle
Bolster
18. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
decry
putrid
facsimile
enmity
19. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): brutally harsh
belabor
lucid
truculent
impede
20. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
zealot
eulogize
defamation
Inchoate
21. Not a straight line: grooved edge
propitiate
serrated
pernicious
chicanery
22. Poor: having no money
beneficial
impecunious
esurient
rancor
23. Wandering
exonerate
vindictive
peregrination
Munificent
24. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
contrition
prolix
droll
Headlong
25. Family: marriage
melodious
conjugal
emulate
sincere
26. Harmful: treacherous
untoward
philanthropic
lethargic
perfidious
27. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
verbose
salutary
indigent
sinuous
28. Funny: waggish
abrogate
vitiate
pithy
jocular
29. Hostile
acerbic
Terse
antithetic
Neophyte
30. Withdrawal/Retreat: give up
Munificent
abnegation
prognosticate
auspicious
31. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
baleful
Syllabus
curmudgeon
defer
32. Weaken
inhibit
Bilious
lethargic
vortex
33. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
exhort
undermine
vitriolic
remonstrate
34. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
Terse
pettish
Corroborate
inscrutable
35. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
gibe
opaque
bemusing
fetid
36. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
Petulant
doleful
inscrutable
ascetic
37. Embarrass: ashamed
chagrin
erudite
abash
equivocate
38. Wisdom: proverb
turgid
reprobate
adage
prevaricate
39. Falsehood; incorrect
berate
obloquy
erroneous
peripatetic
40. Generous/Kind:
equity
wraith
credulous
munificent
41. Praise: formal expression of high praise
obloquy
Mainstay
denounce
encomium
42. Criticize/criticism: to scold
Audacious
redress
berate
iconoclast
43. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
melancholy
riposte
Inchoate
mercurial
44. Family: biologically ancestor
dolorous
progenitor
counterpart
providental
45. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
axiom
noisome
Umbrage
fetid
46. Truth: faithfulness
fealty
prescient
remission
tyro
47. Insincere: conceal truth
dissemble
lambaste
propitiate
libidinous
48. Nasty
noisome
diatribe
enigmatic
denounce
49. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
feigned
ardor/ ardent
ribald
recidivism
50. Pleasant-Sounding
euphonious
awry
articulate
assay