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SAT Word Groups
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
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; humorous
teeter
libertine
droll
canny
2. Pacify/Satisfy
cavil
fortnight
carom
appease
3. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
sojourn
erudite
Pique
cacophony
4. Not a straight line: round about
ciruitous
articulate
droll
Stalwart
5. Withdrawal/Retreat
Corroborate
abortive
authoritarian
teeter
6. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
Abridge
recalcitrant
hiatus
inscrutable
7. Withdrawal/Retreat
rhetoric
baleful
demur
fetter
8. Terse: brief
curt
labyrinth
synchrounous
Burgeoning
9. Gaps/Openings: small narrow space
orifice
abstain
odious
interjustice
10. Pacify/Satisfy
disingenuous
expiate
assuage
disconsolate
11. Praise
asperity
aperture
fawn
ludicrous
12. Boring:dull remark
hiatus
sojourn
Abrupt
platitude
13. Criticize/criticism: vehement speech
diffidence
tirade
apocryphal
odious
14. Family:
quotidian
forage
distaff
antecede
15. Harmful; full of menancing influence
remission
prevaricate
dolor
baleful
16. Diffcult ot understand
obscure
unctuous
aspersion
synchrounous
17. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
acidulous
laud/laudatory
orifice
opprobrium
18. Stubborn: uncomprimising
dissonant
intransigent
incipient
riposte
19. Easy to understand
aphorism
sidle
eloquent
abstruse
20. Dictorial: tyrant
ambiguous
tyrannical
craven
Compendium
21. Walking About
tyrannical
archaic
demise
itinerant
22. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
tendentious
rhetoric
carom
dissemble
23. Equal: fair
duplicity
prolix
caustic
equity
24. Stubborn: not obedient
garrulous
recalcitrant
elegy
partisan
25. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
redress
knell
indolent
quintessence
26. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
doleful
Petulant
Burgeoning
stultify
27. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
perfidious
awry
laconic
defamation
28. Harmful
prevaricate
defile
recalcitrant
inimical
29. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
fulsome
fetid
obdurate
naive
30. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
abash
rebuke
sidle
acclaim
31. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
belabor
irascible
abeyance
Audacious
32. Wisdom
fell
Terse
magnanimous
sententious
33. Family: marriage
raucous
moribound
conjugal
chicanery
34. Carousal: vulgar speech
ribald
objurgate
mundane
gaucherie
35. Falsehood: tellind lies
anachronism
redress
mendacious/ mendacity
dauntless
36. Generous/Kind:
munificent
lull
fetid
detestation
37. Changing quickly: changeable
volatile
talisman
encumber
calmuny
38. Poor: hungry greedy
undermine
reprehend
periphrastic
esurient
39. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
sordid
eulogize
excoriate
assay
40. Pacify/Satisfy
defer
equivocate
augur
platitude
41. Pleasant-Sounding
sonorous
fortuitous
imperious
expiate
42. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
decamp
churlish
dictum
placate
43. Luck: something by chance
adventitious
odium
taciturn
vitiate
44. Investigate: to detect
mitigate
belabor
irascible
descry
45. Wisdom: instructive saying
apothegm
acclaim
belabor
salacious
46. Pleasant-Sounding
euphonious
Abrupt
pettish
truism
47. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
obsequies
meander
Bolster
novitiate
48. Gaps/Openings:
lethargic
aperture
archaic
vindicate
49. Carousal:filthy
objurgate
incipient
eloquent
sordid
50. Pacify/Satisfy
ardor/ ardent
propitiate
bombastic
sooth