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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. Easy to understand: plain
Mainstay
gyrate
synchrounous
evident
2. Criticize/criticism: blame
rent
vindictive
altrustic
reprehend
3. Investigate: to analyze
assay
equity
noisome
antedate
4. Praise
eon
laud/laudatory
salacious
belittle
5. Wisdom
acclaim
antipathy
dictum
sincere
6. Funny: a humor riducule
prosaic
raillery
quintessence
encumber
7. Poor: hungry greedy
tyro
remonstrate
esurient
stoic
8. Funny
Precipiate
riposte
vortex
facetious
9. Funny
ludicrous
guile
Synopsis
deride/ derisive
10. Funny:
Inchoate
enmity
berate
facetious
11. Truth: being true
flippant
laconic
verity
slothful
12. Carousal: vulgar speech
mordacious
fetter
ribald
slake
13. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
injurious
ardor/ ardent
gaucherie
undulating
14. Funny
fey
defamation
antedate
levity
15. Family: a descendant
scion
fervid
precursor
opaque
16. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
lackadaisical
disconsolate
teeter
factitious
17. Bad Mood: Annoyance
Abrupt
archaic
encomium
Umbrage
18. Forgive: to relieve
palliate
slake
sojourn
fey
19. Embarrass
expiate
odious
abortive
trepidation
20. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
quintessence
gyrate
progenitor
sincere
21. Unusual: perculiar manner
largess
debauchery
idiosyncrasy
truculent
22. Predict: a favorable sign
strident
assay
acclaim
auspice
23. Falsehood: false story
appraise
canard
fealty
demise
24. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
scathing
craven
inert
incipient
25. Funny: a silly smile
curt
pillory
encumber
simper
26. Pleasant-Sounding
defile
indubitable
harmonious
enigmatic
27. Wisdom
sententious
equitable
harrangue
chagrin
28. Prevent/Obstruct
encomium
Advocate
discomfort
tantamount
29. Forgive: free from guilt
Sustenance
sooth
exonerate
authoritarian
30. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
spartan
obsitnate
calmuny
sidle
31. Timid/timidity
antecede
truism
vituperation
recreant
32. Carousal: wicked
abstain
filial
discomfort
iniquity
33. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
laconic
malevolent
Mordant
belittle
34. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
malevolent
acclaim
hiatus
dolor
35. Not a straight line: move sideways
emulate
sidle
morose
levity
36. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
endogamous
gaucherie
penultimate
verbose
37. Disgusting/Offensive:
munificent
assay
noisome
gainsay
38. Sorrow: mournful
misanthropic
admonish
encomium
doleful
39. Truth: candor
archaic
salutary
mordacious
frankness
40. Criticize/criticism
bemusing
garrulous
truculent
reprove
41. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
iconoclast
rapacious
harmonious
mercenary
42. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
knell
Burgeoning
gullible
expatiate
43. Smart/Learned: clever
astute
slothful
forage
perfidious
44. Carousal: obscene
evident
cadaver
salacious
fortuitous
45. Beginner/ Amateur
Querulous
fortnight
Dilettante
Sustenance
46. Eccentric/ dissimilar: made of different source
accolade
debauchery
eclectic
propitiate
47. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
Fledgling
scion
asperity
vituperate
48. Easy to understand: clear
limpid
epigram
noisome
cirumlocution
49. Weaken: increase severity
exonerate
philanthropic
prognosticate
exacerbate
50. Time/Duration/Order: to go before
deride/ derisive
gullible
antecede
flippant