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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. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
Pique
serrated
abeyance
abortive
2. Copy: acting as a substitute
fratricide
caustic
vicarious
elegy
3. Easy to understand: clear
propitiate
fervid
articulate
pellucid
4. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
diurnal
obloquy
quotidian
impecunious
5. Timid/timidity: cowardly
craven
flippant
exonerate
noisome
6. Nag: prescribe with authority
turpitude
strident
enjoin
cogent
7. Hatred: habitual dislike
rue
antipathy
mordant
dissipated
8. Sorrow
denounce
lament
talisman
covetous
9. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
libidinous
labyrinth
guile
acrimonious
10. Boring: lacking in freshness
inscrutable
trite
imperious
enmity
11. Truth: speaking the truth
veracious
largess
disparge
careen
12. Falsehood: speak falsely
Stalwart
defamation
prevaricate
rancor
13. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
defer
aberrant
appease
ludicrous
14. Harmful: deadly
baneful
millennium
mercurial
elegiac
15. Insincere: pretended
carom
trepidation
ostensible
flippant
16. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
trenchant
fey
cirumlocution
detestation
17. Time/Duration/Order: lasting a short time
appraise
capricious
ephemeral
zealot
18. Denying of self: extreme denial
Synopsis
phlegmatic
verbose
ascetic
19. Pacify/Satisfy: appease/ concillated
ascetic
quintessence
propitiate
tantamount
20. Timid/timidity
recreant
levity
scion
Engender
21. Death/ Mourning: death
demise
impecunious
Terse
ambiguous
22. Changing quickly: erractic
ambiguous
capricious
indubitable
miserly
23. Carousal: wicked
iniquity
phlegmatic
dolorous
oblique
24. Denying of self:
dissemble
abjure
abnegate
taciturn
25. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
dogmatic
elegy
quotidian
Precipiate
26. Timid/timidity: fearflu
timorous
dour
aperture
progenitor
27. Funny: a gleeful chuckle
askance
chortle
mercenary
fey
28. Harmful: threatening
beneicent
esoteric
minatory
canny
29. Weaken
inhibit
factitious
decamp
raucous
30. Not a straight line: round about
dissonant
aphorism
ciruitous
reprobate
31. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
lament
despotic
Abrupt
Dudgeon
32. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
ribald
despotic
Abrupt
strident
33. Death/ Mourning: dead/ not operating
baneful
appease
defunct
iconoclast
34. Weaken
Querulous
labyrinth
synchrounous
adulterate
35. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
odious
irascible
rescind
Dilettante
36. Boring: dull
pedestrian
prognosticate
anatagonism
minatory
37. Predict
destitute
demur
prognosticate
rent
38. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
loquacious
Inchoate
recondite
abhorrence
39. Boring: lack of originality
unctuous
awry
banal
Petulant
40. Assist- Support by argument
antecede
fey
Advocate
abrogate
41. Harsh-Sounding:
assuage
untoward
Querulous
raucous
42. Prevent/Obstruct
forlorn
encomium
impede
gibe
43. Easy to understand:
articulate
diffidence
destitute
plaintive
44. Embarrass: to feel regret
hinder
augur
rue
esoteric
45. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
decry
baleful
tantamount
providental
46. Abbreviated Communication
extol
Mordant
Compendium
impugn
47. Criticize/criticism: to scold
rescind
Ancillary
Compendium
berate
48. Generous/Kind: compassionate
elegiac
altrustic
Synopsis
clement
49. Hatred: extreme repugnance
abhorrence
Audacious
fortend
unctuous
50. Diffcult ot understand: obscure
simper
arcane
iconoclast
diffidence