SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
SAT Word Groups
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. Terse: concise
slothful
conjugal
compendious
curt
2. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
factitious
inert
expatiate
ambulatory
3. Healthy
turgid
hector
retrograde
salubrious
4. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
defile
martinet
insipid
simper
5. Beginning/Young: procreate
irascible
acidulous
anatagonism
Engender
6. Praise: to praise highly
eulogize
recreant
bombastic
anomaly
7. Funny: waggish
jocular
curmudgeon
lull
Mainstay
8. Bold:fearless
vitriolic
portentous
sidle
dauntless
9. Boring: common/ banal
caustic
sooth
ameliorate
mundane
10. Bad Mood: Annoyance
Umbrage
mordacious
asperity
fey
11. Diffcult ot understand: obscure
laconic
arcane
reprove
equitable
12. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
adage
anachronism
bromide
aggrandize
13. Falsehood: speak falsely
canard
prevaricate
pillory
equity
14. Harmful
pernicious
Proselyte
noisome
obscure
15. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
antedate
impecunious
Precipiate
mitigate
16. Act quickly- Sudden or rash action/emotion
implacable
opaque
trepidation
Impetuous
17. Carousal: excessive indulgence
gullible
tyrannical
debauchery
harrangue
18. Wandering
rift
peregrination
sardonic
disingenuous
19. Equal: fairness
noxious
melancholy
equitable
obdurate
20. Truth
probity
specious
exacerbate
descry
21. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
abatement
idiosyncrasy
epoch
Proponet
22. Timid/timidity
verbose
pusillanimous
equivocate
tyrannical
23. Investigate: to analyze
doleful
threnody
assay
Compendium
24. Family: marriage within a social tribe
asperity
sojourn
mordant
endogamous
25. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
curmudgeon
beneficial
ameliorate
Callow
26. Assist: perosn that support a cause
Proponet
sepulchral
extol
vituperate
27. Withdrawal/Retreat
fetid
Abridge
demur
sooth
28. Easy to understand: clear
irascible
misanthropic
putrid
pellucid
29. Criticize/criticism: belitte
waver
dissipated
defile
disparge
30. Falsehood: crafty deception
vacillate
laud/laudatory
guile
putrid
31. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
abash
millennium
asperity
turbid
32. Assist
esurient
abatement
Compendium
Abet
33. Overblown/ Wordy
Stalwart
euphonious
fallacious
verbose
34. Luck: presenting in favorable condition
debauchery
propitiate
belittle
fetid
35. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
Asperity
circumvent
impugn
enigmatic
36. Criticize/criticism: blame
intractable
exhort
reprehend
vitiate
37. Assist
garrulous
defunct
Bolster
periphrastic
38. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
augur
caustic
esurient
candor/candid
39. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful/ give offense
eloquent
ersatz
inimical
invidious
40. Weaken
undermine
recalcitrant
dour
compunction
41. Withdrawal/Retreat
recant
berate
mercenary
diatribe
42. Sorrow
anachronism
lament
ludicrous
loquacious
43. Copy: acting as a substitute
scion
vicarious
belabor
salubrious
44. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
remission
renitent
exacerbate
oblique
45. Greedy
bacchanlian
gibe
covetous
portentous
46. Insincere: conceal truth
counterpart
authoritarian
dissemble
Headlong
47. Withdrawal/Retreat: give up
noisome
abnegation
recondite
debauchery
48. Prevent/Obstruct
vituperate
inhibit
expiate
mercurial
49. Withdrawal/Retreat
abortive
consanguine
rebuke
antithetic
50. Bad Mood: Snappish
credulous
Wapish
droll
idiosyncrasy