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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. Hesitate: to show doubt
waver
bereave
indolent
doctrinaire
2. Praise: honor
periphrastic
aggrandize
diffidence
expiate
3. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
castigate
demise
labyrinth
recalcitrant
4. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
dour
interjustice
prognosticate
dauntless
5. Forgive: to relieve
redress
obscure
palliate
fatuous
6. Gaps/Openings
ersatz
opprobrium
lull
ardor/ ardent
7. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
tyrannical
prolix
fetid
platitude
8. Boring: lack of originality
reprehend
banal
dissonant
Abridge
9. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
bereave
threnody
gainsay
impugn
10. Not a straight line: move sideways
sidle
din
forage
sardonic
11. Prevent/Obstruct
implacable
impede
knell
banal
12. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
inimical
accolade
altrustic
retrograde
13. Walking About
recondite
tendentious
ambulatory
Audacious
14. Falsehood: tellind lies
abstruse
mendacious/ mendacity
Impetuous
rhetoric
15. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
tyrannical
beneficial
implacable
turgid
16. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
fallacious
feigned
Abet
guile
17. Funny: a silly smile
simper
evident
sardonic
millennium
18. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
redress
Neophyte
Curtail
sincere
19. Denying of self:
lackadaisical
covetous
perfidy
spartan
20. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
objurgate
obviate
recondite
calmuny
21. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
axiom
salutary
guile
abeyance
22. Assist- Very Generous
Munificent
belabor
ersatz
hector
23. Easy to understand: clear
baneful
lucid
sooth
defer
24. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
bacchanlian
Novitiate
dictum
careen
25. Hostile: cruel
truculent
abhorrence
reprove
novitiate
26. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
equitable
demise
filial
diurnal
27. Wisdom: instructive saying
slothful
apothegm
perspicacious
duplicity
28. Act quickly
munificent
duplicity
ribald
Apace
29. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
aggrandize
placate
vitriolic
prescient
30. Hostile
encomium
untoward
antithetic
dolor
31. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
bereave
emulate
hiatus
philanthropic
32. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
ersatz
rue
scathing
probity
33. Generous/Kind
turpitude
labyrinth
unstinting
aperture
34. Forgive: to clear
vindicate
Wapish
sordid
candor/candid
35. Sorrow: mournful
vituperation
doleful
largess
quintessence
36. Time/Duration/Order: lasting a short time
ephemeral
ingenuous
platitude
dither
37. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
prolix
mollify
admonish
rift
38. Greedy:
libidinous
encomium
avaricious
dissemble
39. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
Proselyte
iniquity
doctrinaire
Espouse
40. Praise: formal expression of high praise
pedestrian
enigmatic
inexorable
encomium
41. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
cogent
placate
antipathy
abnegation
42. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
vicarious
dolorous
erroneous
orifice
43. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
sooth
renitent
portentous
din
44. Hostile: bad temper
pernicious
ostensible
curmudgeon
dauntless
45. Praise: to solute
Advocate
unstinting
acclaim
auspice
46. Withdrawal/Retreat
recidivism
renitent
vituperation
doctrinaire
47. Embarrass: to feel regret
admonish
abnegation
contrition
rue
48. Forgive: free from guilt
misanthropic
absolve
consanguine
endogamous
49. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
mitigate
vexing
gyrate
portentous
50. Weaken
enervate
fortend
aberrant
obdurate