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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: berate sharply
intractable
dissemble
peremptory
objurgate
2. Hostile: eaisly angered
irascible
hackneyed
fortnight
turbid
3. Wisdom
truism
moribound
counterpart
taciturn
4. Withdrawal/Retreat
recant
itinerant
assuage
invidious
5. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
quintessence
loquacious
Abridge
imperious
6. Insincere: moralistic fervor
opprobrium
misanthropic
unctuous
optimum
7. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
abash
Fledgling
scathing
ingenuous
8. Dictorial: opinionated
dogmatic
threnody
ardor/ ardent
assuage
9. Luck: something by chance
adventitious
adage
libertine
belabor
10. Hostile: revengeful spirit
ludicrous
Petulant
mordacious
vindictive
11. Luck: amulet
talisman
obloquy
exculpate
amulet
12. Family: a descendant
forlorn
scion
abnegate
impugn
13. Wisdom
guile
dictum
denounce
belittle
14. Denying of self:
loquacious
Dudgeon
spartan
discomfort
15. Boring: usual
cryptic
discursive
quotidian
abjure
16. Falsehood
impecunious
spurious
opaque
hiatus
17. Hatred: loathed
anathema
Sustenance
misanthropic
sojourn
18. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
orifice
harmonious
courageous
ludicrous
19. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
synchrounous
flippant
sooth
Headlong
20. Embarrass: ashamed
wraith
authoritarian
droll
abash
21. Terse
succinct
stoic
phlegmatic
truculent
22. Generous/Kind: compassionate
clement
decry
encumber
deleterious
23. Truth: being true
prevaricate
verity
curt
filial
24. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
forlorn
indolent
Precipiate
venerate
25. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
obviate
anachronism
Dilettante
ribald
26. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
turgid
covetous
sepulchral
prolix
27. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
jocular
careen
teeter
inimical
28. Investigate: examine in detail
salutary
magnanimous
Bilious
peruse
29. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
bombastic
filial
renege
hackneyed
30. Sorrow: expressing sorrow
placate
elegiac
noisome
largess
31. Carousal: corrupt
depraved
trepidation
clement
penurious
32. Falsehood: give false appearance
dissemble
aberration
synchrounous
anachronism
33. Nasty
noxious
truism
clement
reproof
34. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
rancor
arcane
putrid
opaque
35. Unusual
volatile
iconoclast
nascent
forlorn
36. Sorrow
labyrinth
elegy
strident
lament
37. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
hegemonic
endogamous
inert
Cursory
38. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
retrograde
irascible
caustic
putrid
39. Sorrow; grief
dolor
truculent
adventitious
aphorism
40. Prevent/Obstruct
perfidious
fetter
loathing
belabor
41. Poor: having no money
paradigm
baleful
impecunious
adventitious
42. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
prosaic
platitude
equivocate
Curtail
43. Pleasant-Sounding
peripatetic
sonorous
doleful
Cursory
44. Act quickly
grandiloquent
sidle
epoch
Abrupt
45. Praise
tantamount
iniquity
laud/laudatory
plaintive
46. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
antedate
anomaly
mitigate
belittle
47. Bad Mood: Complaining
temperate
Querulous
ersatz
mendacious/ mendacity
48. Harmful:
deleterious
lull
raillery
mercenary
49. Not a straight line: rotartory movement
elegiac
insipid
vortex
Corroborate
50. Truth: speaking the truth
foible
veracious
torpid
obdurate