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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. Praise
fawn
kismet
abatement
timorous
2. Funny
recalcitrant
levity
equity
revile
3. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
gainsay
candor/candid
mordacious
injurious
4. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
stultify
noisome
lambaste
perfidious
5. Boring: common/ banal
facetious
mundane
bromide
obsitnate
6. Hatred: opposite force
laconic
disconsolate
abortive
anatagonism
7. Embarrass
ambulatory
expiate
hegemonic
acidulous
8. Not a straight line: round about
raucous
truism
lament
ciruitous
9. Pacify/Satisfy
Neophyte
slake
redress
renitent
10. Falsehood: deception
chicanery
invidious
Ancillary
appease
11. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
abstruse
scathing
astute
auspicious
12. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
obsitnate
malice
taciturn
undulating
13. Lazy/ Sluggish
munificent
acidulous
lethargic
miserly
14. Gaps/Openings
interregnum
counterpart
simulated
ingenuous
15. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
intransigent
melancholy
putrid
reprobate
16. Bold: extremely daring
Audacious
reprove
hackneyed
quotidian
17. Easy to understand: plain
taciturn
fell
evident
clement
18. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
prosaic
minatory
licentious
exonerate
19. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): brutally harsh
debauchery
perfidy
truculent
belabor
20. Innocent/ Inexperienced: state of being novice
loathing
reprove
defunct
novitiate
21. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
asperity
vacillate
dissemble
millennium
22. Wandering
craven
expatiate
Advocate
Compendium
23. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
belittle
opaque
ingenuous
adage
24. Wisdom
insidious
periphrastic
aphorism
reprobate
25. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
loathing
din
Mordant
reproof
26. Stubborn: resistant
renitent
Audacious
iconoclast
Synopsis
27. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
harrangue
ersatz
canard
peregrination
28. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
berate
reproof
esoteric
truculent
29. Luck: presenting in favorable condition
hinder
propitiate
obscure
evident
30. Easy to understand:
defunct
compendious
articulate
recidivism
31. Poor: having no money
compunction
destitute
impecunious
cryptic
32. Denying of self:
fetid
ribald
abnegate
anatagonism
33. Death/ Mourning: death
paradigm
meander
demise
altrustic
34. Carousal: wicked
prosaic
baneful
rapacious
iniquity
35. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
insidious
placate
calmuny
hiatus
36. Pleasant-Sounding
lament
Inchoate
melodious
evident
37. Truth: sincere in speech
abjure
candor/candid
abash
diatribe
38. Copy: Model
zealot
paradigm
platitude
millennium
39. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
augur
compendious
calmuny
amulet
40. Insincere: conceal truth
abjure
counterpart
dissemble
ludicrous
41. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
indigent
renitent
turpitude
acerbic
42. Prevent/Obstruct
novitiate
iniquity
impede
vindicate
43. Falsehood: give false appearance
dissemble
prevaricate
cacophony
verbose
44. Funny
propitiate
ludicrous
recreant
lethargic
45. Truth: cannot be doubted
indubitable
epoch
decry
objurgate
46. Assist: State of being sustained
encomium
obviate
remonstrate
Sustenance
47. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
elegy
intractable
sidle
Wapish
48. Truth: speaking the truth
scion
anachronism
veracious
indubitable
49. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
fawn
oblique
flippant
dither
50. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
mollify
respite
erudite
iniquity