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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. Criticize/criticism: abusive language
untoward
hegemonic
obloquy
loquacious
2. Generous/Kind: kindness
exonerate
sardonic
emulate
beneicent
3. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
renitent
wraith
Tyro
paradigm
4. Not a straight line: round about
dissipated
abstruse
compunction
ciruitous
5. Predict: a favorable sign
evident
anatagonism
auspice
prolix
6. Criticize/criticism: to scold
berate
guile
temperate
Terse
7. Overblown/ Wordy:
antipathy
periphrastic
forlorn
defer
8. Diffcult ot understand:
eulogize
astute
curmudgeon
recondite
9. Luck: fate
acquit
kismet
bemusing
prescient
10. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
rebarbative
appease
Cursory
facetious
11. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
lament
fetter
sooth
inert
12. Embarrass: ashamed
abash
loathing
stoic
duplicity
13. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
Neophyte
satiate
Wapish
obsequies
14. Sorrow: gloomily
admonish
morose
canard
sincere
15. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
harmonious
mitigate
libertine
turpitude
16. Wandering
disconsolate
perspicacious
erudite
forage
17. Denying of self:
antipathy
limpid
spartan
minatory
18. Praise: to solute
bemusing
anachronism
acclaim
churlish
19. Insincere: conceal truth
dissemble
erroneous
forage
axiom
20. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
munificent
Espouse
Terse
trenchant
21. Funny
lament
obscure
levity
aperture
22. Smart/Learned
cadaver
canny
disconsolate
macabre
23. Harsh-Sounding
defile
platitude
fortnight
cacophony
24. Hatred
truculent
loathing
unstinting
circumvent
25. Smart/Learned: clever
adulterate
astute
aperture
veracious
26. Easy to understand: clear
Sustenance
beneficial
courageous
cogent
27. Death/ Mourning: dead body
tirade
pillory
vitriolic
cadaver
28. Boring: lacking in freshness
droll
antedate
trite
aphorism
29. Abbreviated Communication
Compendium
emulate
portentous
wraith
30. Stubborn:
intractable
Novitiate
destitute
invidious
31. Act quickly
Abrupt
itinerant
kismet
platitude
32. Harmful
inimical
largess
interregnum
caustic
33. Wisdom: proverb
adage
gainsay
misanthropic
harrangue
34. Wisdom
zealot
avaricious
epigram
adulterate
35. Prevent/Obstruct
occlued
cadaver
aphorism
dictum
36. Falsehood: tellind lies
aphorism
mendacious/ mendacity
Proponet
Burgeoning
37. Carousal: obscene
dolor
altrustic
dictum
salacious
38. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
disparge
erudite
factitious
esoteric
39. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
unstinting
obscure
orifice
cryptic
40. Sorrow: funeral song
prosaic
sardonic
threnody
covetous
41. Criticize/criticism: belitte
frankness
harmonious
disparge
erudite
42. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
licentious
malevolent
appease
salutary
43. Prevent/Obstruct
providental
inhibit
Umbrage
prosaic
44. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
quintessence
fawn
defamation
remission
45. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
assay
jocular
revile
din
46. Greedy
encumber
iconoclast
recant
miserly
47. Poor: having no money
vacillate
impecunious
appease
vindicate
48. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
turbid
dolor
ardor/ ardent
magnanimous
49. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
recidivism
Burgeoning
duplicity
frankness
50. Terse: brief
encumber
Curtail
truculent
pithy