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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. Funny: waggish
Audacious
Curtail
Umbrage
jocular
2. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
admonish
Mordant
dolorous
denounce
3. Funny:
hegemonic
fissure
facetious
penurious
4. Wisdom
sooth
salutary
aphorism
perfidious
5. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
Terse
erudite
inimical
circumvent
6. Easy to understand: clear
limpid
Syllabus
credulous
fulsome
7. Boring: lack of originality
sepulchral
Audacious
banal
irascible
8. Assist- Support by argument
anachronism
synchrounous
Advocate
rebuke
9. Weaken
inhibit
acerbic
encumber
malice
10. Timid/timidity: tremor
quintessence
trepidation
Engender
indolent
11. Insincere: lacking sincerity
disingenuous
meander
banal
Pique
12. Assist
odious
Ancillary
temperate
mitigate
13. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
rhetoric
sooth
abnegation
auspice
14. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
encumber
esurient
rescind
vitriolic
15. Easy to understand: clear
vituperation
pellucid
noisome
guile
16. Pleasant-Sounding
baneful
redress
chicanery
melodious
17. Equal: fairness
anachronism
wraith
gainsay
equitable
18. Prevent/Obstruct
equitable
fetter
slake
pillory
19. Harmful: threatening
minatory
inhibit
opprobrium
axiom
20. Embarrass: to feel regret
rue
slake
expiate
mordant
21. Funny: a gleeful chuckle
chortle
anachronism
expiate
esoteric
22. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
factitious
slake
descry
garrulous
23. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
filial
Pique
demur
bromide
24. Carousal: corrupt
vitiate
erroneous
sincere
depraved
25. Family: marriage
Petulant
demise
progenitor
conjugal
26. Falsehood
Callow
epigram
minatory
spurious
27. Innocent/ Inexperienced
objurgate
naive
anachronism
lethargic
28. Embarrass: awkwardness
excoriate
auspice
gaucherie
anomalous
29. Luck: fate
endogamous
kismet
abortive
precursor
30. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
fell
largess
truculent
Advocate
31. Not a straight line: grooved edge
serrated
interjustice
evident
kismet
32. Eccentric/ dissimilar: made of different source
ludicrous
gyrate
expiate
eclectic
33. Criticize/criticism: shameful
carom
moribound
opprobrium
probity
34. Weaken
succinct
gyrate
philanthropic
vitiate
35. Pacify/Satisfy
defer
sincere
equivocate
Novitiate
36. Generous/Kind
deride/ derisive
reprehend
unstinting
discrete
37. Equal: fair
anatagonism
indolent
pusillanimous
equity
38. Hostile
filial
licentious
misanthropic
Mainstay
39. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
dissipated
defer
destitute
ostensible
40. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
Pique
antithetic
mercurial
recidivism
41. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
magnanimous
simper
providental
compendious
42. Falsehood: misleading
fallacious
portentous
defamation
apocryphal
43. Assist
peremptory
Bolster
obsitnate
amulet
44. Family: having same ancestry
auspice
interregnum
consanguine
obscure
45. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
indolent
Syllabus
trite
prosaic
46. Criticize/criticism: abuse
encomium
pillory
indolent
kismet
47. Smart/Learned
demise
Sustenance
canny
abhorrence
48. Funny
riposte
ludicrous
misanthropic
inhibit
49. Predict: a favorable sign
penultimate
deleterious
auspice
dissemble
50. Prevent/Obstruct
facsimile
impede
renitent
pedestrian