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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. Boring: lack of originality
covetous
banal
iniquity
adventitious
2. Abbreviated Communication
erudite
sinuous
eon
Compendium
3. Harmful: threatening
peregrination
insidious
Impetuous
minatory
4. Investigate: to detect
tendentious
descry
rent
Ancillary
5. Insincere: lacking sincerity
disingenuous
oblique
simper
eulogize
6. Gaps/Openings
vitriolic
lull
salutary
itinerant
7. Assist
facsimile
perfidy
Espouse
oscillate
8. Harmful: deadly
dolorous
rebuke
baneful
salacious
9. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
grandiloquent
levity
elegiac
philanthropic
10. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
turbid
naive
tendentious
exacerbate
11. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
Proselyte
labyrinth
irascible
careen
12. Eccentric/ dissimilar: separate
discrete
fortend
antithetic
objurgate
13. Falsehood
inhibit
baneful
apocryphal
fetid
14. Wisdom
opaque
moribound
sententious
malice
15. Criticize/criticism: vehement speech
sojourn
lethargic
consanguine
tirade
16. Hatred
enmity
vitiate
articulate
apothegm
17. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
macabre
stoic
Munificent
compunction
18. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
inveigh
bemusing
scathing
meander
19. Assist
sonorous
sojourn
descry
Ancillary
20. Falsehood: decieve
duplicity
abash
peremptory
Engender
21. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
fetid
bombastic
dogmatic
hiatus
22. Luck: marvelous
portentous
banal
disingenuous
noxious
23. Boring: lacking in freshness
inert
temporal
belabor
trite
24. Act quickly
peruse
Abrupt
incipient
inimical
25. Withdrawal/Retreat
verbose
progenitor
ambiguous
recant
26. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
propitiate
diffidence
excoriate
diffident
27. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
dissonant
prolix
miserly
chortle
28. Family: a descendant
aberrant
frankness
scion
timorous
29. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
Headlong
Burgeoning
peregrination
cavil
30. Praise: to solute
dissonant
factitious
anterior
acclaim
31. Carousal
flippant
bacchanlian
archaic
acidulous
32. Wisdom
ingenuous
harrangue
platitude
riposte
33. Lazy/ Sluggish
hector
remonstrate
quiescent
tyrannical
34. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
beneficial
gyrate
discursive
Precipiate
35. Hatred: habitual dislike
aspersion
impugn
intractable
antipathy
36. Forgive: free from guilt
veracious
rancor
absolve
salutary
37. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
tyrannical
factitious
impugn
duplicity
38. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
Pique
Engender
doctrinaire
rapacious
39. Bad Mood: peevish
droll
pettish
indisputable
diatribe
40. Innocent/ Inexperienced: state of being novice
noisome
novitiate
lament
libertine
41. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
laconic
Neophyte
tirade
vituperation
42. Gaps/Openings: reduction
Umbrage
iniquity
abatement
periphrastic
43. Terse: concise
demur
aberration
compendious
acrimonious
44. Nag: long speech
feigned
arcane
bromide
harrangue
45. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
excoriate
abrogate
prevaricate
impugn
46. Weaken
caustic
enervate
ephemeral
antedate
47. Hostile: eaisly angered
feigned
satiate
irascible
facsimile
48. Embarrass: to feel regret
rue
sooth
ephemeral
excoriate
49. Lazy/ Sluggish
lethargic
equity
Syllabus
extol
50. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
imperious
hiatus
avaricious
grandiloquent