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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. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
compunction
progenitor
indigent
reproof
2. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
ardor/ ardent
tirade
altrustic
chortle
3. Luck: protecting charm
amulet
recondite
pernicious
simper
4. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
undulating
irascible
intransigent
chagrin
5. Nag: long speech
platitude
vituperation
Neophyte
harrangue
6. Funny
levity
amulet
recalcitrant
acidulous
7. Poor
auspice
exhort
destitute
minatory
8. Forgive: relieve from crime
malice
vortex
acquit
lugubrious
9. Assist- Support by argument
specious
Advocate
taciturn
Fledgling
10. Luck: fortunate
hegemonic
facetious
diatribe
providental
11. Falsehood: give false appearance
pedestrian
kismet
acrimonious
dissemble
12. Lazy/ Sluggish
waver
slothful
harrangue
lucid
13. Investigate: to detect
temperate
portentous
descry
Burgeoning
14. Carousal
bacchanlian
fortuitous
distaff
eclectic
15. Assist- Very Generous
Munificent
salacious
mercenary
abhorrence
16. Timid/timidity: cowardly
craven
Mainstay
ciruitous
temperate
17. Family: having same ancestry
esoteric
nascent
moribound
consanguine
18. Boring: usual
quotidian
propitiate
satiate
sojourn
19. Family: marriage within a social tribe
endogamous
ardor/ ardent
askance
expatiate
20. Insincere: pretended
ostensible
aphorism
enmity
discursive
21. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
placate
defamation
dissonant
inexorable
22. Easy to understand: clear
ameliorate
vindictive
chagrin
pellucid
23. Sorrow
obsitnate
defamation
plaintive
verbose
24. Easy to understand
eloquent
intransigent
dolor
trenchant
25. Pacify/Satisfy: appease/ concillated
propitiate
dither
Wapish
slake
26. Embarrass: ashamed
recondite
Syllabus
abash
truism
27. Innocent/ Inexperienced: state of being novice
acquit
novitiate
dogmatic
forage
28. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
iconoclast
Umbrage
duplicity
excoriate
29. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
asperity
gainsay
capricious
berate
30. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
hiatus
mordacious
enmity
anomalous
31. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
rent
peremptory
Munificent
unstinting
32. Sorrow: mournful
synchrounous
succinct
trite
doleful
33. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
fell
enigmatic
limpid
acrimonious
34. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
inimical
epoch
diurnal
libertine
35. Diffcult ot understand
abstruse
esoteric
temporal
decamp
36. Copy: to imitate
emulate
dolor
aphorism
doctrinaire
37. Falsehood
stultify
kismet
spurious
occlued
38. Act quickly- Sudden or rash action/emotion
Precipiate
apocryphal
intransigent
Impetuous
39. Sorrow: funeral song
augur
eon
threnody
diffident
40. Criticize/criticism
fulsome
reprove
disconsolate
aperture
41. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
cogent
zealot
calmuny
venal
42. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
Precipiate
licentious
trepidation
Countenance
43. Bad Mood: Anger
Dudgeon
undulating
erudite
anachronism
44. Investigate: to analyze
baleful
assay
ambiguous
doctrinaire
45. Funny: waggish; humorous
simulated
epigram
droll
denounce
46. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
fratricide
torpid
exhort
esoteric
47. Pleasant-Sounding
mollify
melodious
retrograde
expatiate
48. Beginning/Young: procreate
Engender
Cursory
reproof
ludicrous
49. Luck: fate
fortnight
aberration
kismet
enervate
50. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
harrangue
gullible
impugn
Tyro