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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. Funny
revile
admonish
ludicrous
inscrutable
2. Stubborn: to annoy
vexing
vicarious
sepulchral
renege
3. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
gyrate
temperate
renitent
encomium
4. Nasty
Abrupt
compunction
noisome
libertine
5. Lazy/ Sluggish
strident
unctuous
truism
phlegmatic
6. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
labyrinth
antipathy
castigate
Pique
7. Hatred: intense dislike
portentous
foible
odium
remonstrate
8. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
expatiate
licentious
Compendium
truism
9. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
cryptic
rebuke
reproof
fawn
10. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
injurious
erudite
inveigh
ambiguous
11. Family: marriage within a social tribe
antecede
endogamous
filial
vitriolic
12. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
deride/ derisive
bacchanlian
sinuous
antithetic
13. Luck: fate
grandiloquent
eclectic
recreant
kismet
14. Luck: desirable
optimum
anterior
Abet
cryptic
15. Death/ Mourning: bell made for a funeral
diatribe
knell
axiom
ciruitous
16. Luck
fortuitous
stoic
courageous
limpid
17. Funny: lacking in seriouness
decamp
fetid
flippant
rescind
18. Embarrass: quality of being different
lament
meander
diffidence
novitiate
19. Sorrow: gloomily
misanthropic
fissure
morose
Querulous
20. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
scion
acrimonious
erroneous
denounce
21. Copy: acting as a substitute
flippant
adulterate
ameliorate
vicarious
22. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
turgid
decry
sententious
abrogate
23. Time/Duration/Order: to go before
antecede
oblique
frankness
fealty
24. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
hiatus
enigmatic
diffidence
periphrastic
25. Act quickly
abnegation
recondite
rancor
Abrupt
26. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
lugubrious
lackadaisical
elegiac
aspersion
27. Luck: lucky
bombastic
grandiloquent
paradigm
auspicious
28. Stubborn: not obedient
obdurate
recalcitrant
lackadaisical
oblique
29. Hatred: opposite force
turpitude
rue
Petulant
anatagonism
30. Weaken: increase severity
exacerbate
redress
raillery
despotic
31. Luck: marvelous
portentous
erroneous
sojourn
consanguine
32. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
lament
Wapish
abhorrence
anachronism
33. Dictorial: complete obedience
cryptic
peruse
authoritarian
hegemonic
34. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
antedate
misanthropic
rhetoric
prosaic
35. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
cryptic
ascetic
ameliorate
bombastic
36. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
turbid
progenitor
askance
Synopsis
37. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
defile
Cursory
perfidious
destitute
38. Criticize/criticism: shameful
sincere
laconic
opprobrium
ephemeral
39. Luck: protecting charm
discomfort
diatribe
amulet
slake
40. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scornful
fell
sardonic
lull
fissure
41. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
diatribe
Petulant
idiosyncrasy
Inchoate
42. Easy to understand:
fey
revile
articulate
dissipated
43. Predict
prescient
raucous
salubrious
feigned
44. Terse: reserved in speech
dauntless
baneful
destitute
taciturn
45. Sorrow
lament
articulate
Stalwart
beneicent
46. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
irascible
mercurial
apocryphal
Compendium
47. Diffcult ot understand:
naive
rebarbative
lackadaisical
recondite
48. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
zealot
propitiate
canny
Inchoate
49. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
iconoclast
curt
prognosticate
mitigate
50. Harmful
pernicious
Asperity
injurious
tirade