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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. Insincere: pretended
mercenary
elegiac
vitriolic
ostensible
2. Forgive: to relieve
sardonic
impede
palliate
baleful
3. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
defer
compunction
despotic
fervid
4. Sorrow; grief
admonish
dolor
salacious
mendacious/ mendacity
5. Predict
exacerbate
prescient
diffident
adulterate
6. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
Querulous
gyrate
synchrounous
tyro
7. Death/ Mourning: dead body
pettish
reprobate
untoward
cadaver
8. Luck: desirable
opprobrium
vitiate
optimum
dither
9. Falsehood
epigram
mollify
spurious
foible
10. Not a straight line: turn to side
defer
recidivism
awry
inhibit
11. Hesitate: to show doubt
obdurate
askance
obsitnate
waver
12. Truth: sincere in speech
counterpart
candor/candid
melancholy
anomaly
13. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
fetid
mundane
injurious
Precipiate
14. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
Engender
lambaste
invidious
accolade
15. Assist: State of being sustained
defer
axiom
satiate
Sustenance
16. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
auspice
interjustice
circumvent
mordacious
17. Gaps/Openings
compunction
lackadaisical
conjugal
respite
18. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
verity
covetous
gaucherie
mollify
19. Copy: to imitate
ersatz
compendious
discomfort
emulate
20. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
Novitiate
abrogate
insidious
acidulous
21. Boring: to make common by frequent use
cadaver
bromide
hackneyed
lambaste
22. Equal:
hackneyed
tantamount
propitiate
anachronism
23. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
rebuke
gibe
awry
threnody
24. Criticize/criticism: to scold
bereave
berate
lugubrious
eloquent
25. Weaken
specious
aspersion
obviate
vitiate
26. Harsh-Sounding
placate
opprobrium
cacophony
inveigh
27. Poor
martinet
destitute
fatuous
timorous
28. Assist
esurient
portentous
Bolster
descry
29. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
Proponet
hinder
meander
fallacious
30. Sorrow: funeral song
threnody
munificent
salacious
platitude
31. Hatred
idiosyncrasy
pedestrian
salacious
enmity
32. Boring: dull
Advocate
prosaic
platitude
erroneous
33. Time/Duration/Order
Proselyte
iconoclast
penultimate
temporal
34. Diffcult ot understand
abstruse
prevaricate
Dilettante
defile
35. Easy to understand:
chagrin
Precipiate
articulate
kismet
36. Dictorial: overbearing
churlish
demur
craven
imperious
37. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
abatement
platitude
discrete
doctrinaire
38. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
augur
abrogate
defunct
fratricide
39. Easy to understand: plain
teeter
defamation
anterior
evident
40. Criticize/criticism
dissemble
reprove
idiosyncrasy
peremptory
41. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
veracious
aspersion
prognosticate
filial
42. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
grandiloquent
Wapish
auspicious
dissemble
43. Hatred
precursor
labyrinth
rancor
pernicious
44. Timid/timidity
diffident
pusillanimous
loathing
enigmatic
45. Pacify/Satisfy
hector
Neophyte
defer
denounce
46. Forgive: free from guilt
expatiate
exculpate
specious
anomaly
47. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
ludicrous
bemusing
fawn
torpid
48. Denying of self: self restrained
temperate
lethargic
doleful
esoteric
49. Hatred: extreme repugnance
periphrastic
abhorrence
cryptic
reprobate
50. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
antithetic
raucous
partisan
defunct