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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. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
carom
abeyance
hinder
lugubrious
2. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
interregnum
rapacious
sojourn
odious
3. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
morose
libertine
volatile
esoteric
4. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
synchrounous
abhorrence
miserly
reprehend
5. Overblown/ Wordy:
bombastic
spurious
acidulous
Wapish
6. Pacify/Satisfy
cacophony
defer
palliate
demise
7. Investigate: examine in detail
Fledgling
obscure
reproof
peruse
8. Carousal: shameful
Callow
belabor
waver
turpitude
9. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
Compendium
forlorn
elegy
assay
10. Sorrow: mournful
dogmatic
doleful
encomium
exhort
11. Nag: prescribe with authority
turpitude
cacophony
peremptory
enjoin
12. Not a straight line: move sideways
churlish
encumber
sidle
undulating
13. Overblown/ Wordy
gainsay
assuage
Abet
verbose
14. Pleasant-Sounding
Cursory
harmonious
curmudgeon
cryptic
15. Boring: dull
prosaic
recreant
sincere
dolorous
16. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
Bolster
indolent
naive
abstain
17. Not a straight line: round about
martinet
recalcitrant
ciruitous
Bilious
18. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
abrogate
perfidy
bombastic
melancholy
19. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
penultimate
Asperity
periphrastic
endogamous
20. Hatred: opposite force
lugubrious
pellucid
anatagonism
impede
21. Easy to understand: clear
iniquity
ostensible
appraise
cogent
22. Death/ Mourning: death
erudite
stoic
demise
depraved
23. Time/Duration/Order
mendacious/ mendacity
expatiate
temporal
compendious
24. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
lament
Dilettante
aberration
authoritarian
25. Pacify/Satisfy
slake
stoic
chortle
epoch
26. Family:
Cursory
distaff
sonorous
deleterious
27. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
Neophyte
philanthropic
abstain
doleful
28. Forgive: to clear
disconsolate
anomaly
vindicate
probity
29. Harmful
insidious
recalcitrant
inimical
dour
30. Sorrow: funeral song
implacable
threnody
impede
sooth
31. Falsehood: misleading
gainsay
fallacious
optimum
anatagonism
32. Denying of self: self restrained
impugn
chagrin
bacchanlian
temperate
33. Praise: honor
tirade
quotidian
admonish
aggrandize
34. Embarrass
irascible
obscure
expiate
rancor
35. Hatred: intense dislike
impecunious
anachronism
perfidious
odium
36. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
serrated
undulating
berate
endogamous
37. Pacify/Satisfy
duplicity
sonorous
appease
venerate
38. Prevent/Obstruct
simulated
acidulous
dissemble
impede
39. Greedy: acting merely for money
dolor
mercenary
doctrinaire
abstruse
40. Greedy: bribery
deleterious
discursive
venal
rent
41. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
retrograde
diatribe
Headlong
vindictive
42. Lazy/ Sluggish
vicarious
torpid
obviate
erroneous
43. Copy: acting as a substitute
awry
lambaste
jocular
vicarious
44. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
circumvent
mitigate
calmuny
Compendium
45. Lazy/ Sluggish
archaic
eulogize
impugn
lethargic
46. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
magnanimous
indolent
pedestrian
doctrinaire
47. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
cryptic
prolix
lugubrious
abrogate
48. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
fetid
fortend
diatribe
temperate
49. Greedy: inordinately greedy
rapacious
feigned
elegiac
revile
50. Stubborn
intractable
obdurate
Tyro
penultimate