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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. Changing quickly: changeable
auspicious
Tyro
volatile
abeyance
2. Withdrawal/Retreat
deride/ derisive
respite
diffident
recant
3. Predict
prognosticate
prolix
gyrate
ameliorate
4. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
undulating
nascent
frankness
guile
5. Smart/Learned
portentous
guile
canny
mercurial
6. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
Mainstay
abnegation
harrangue
Callow
7. Hatred: opposite force
implacable
anatagonism
ingenuous
fortuitous
8. Sorrow: mournful
encomium
doleful
anachronism
impecunious
9. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
inveigh
pithy
baneful
Advocate
10. Investigate: to analyze
Proponet
garrulous
assay
equitable
11. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
caustic
Cursory
prolix
miserly
12. Stubborn: unalterable
inexorable
exhort
candor/candid
epigram
13. Pacify/Satisfy: appease/ concillated
propitiate
anomalous
Burgeoning
objurgate
14. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
iconoclast
aperture
lackadaisical
bereave
15. Gaps/Openings: small narrow space
interjustice
loquacious
grandiloquent
dither
16. Stubborn
obdurate
impede
succinct
dissemble
17. Carousal: excessive indulgence
churlish
slake
debauchery
avaricious
18. Copy: not natural
miserly
pellucid
inhibit
factitious
19. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
belittle
Inchoate
Proselyte
depraved
20. Embarrass: awkwardness
eclectic
defamation
enigmatic
gaucherie
21. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
quiescent
unstinting
dissemble
opaque
22. Nag: long speech
harrangue
acrimonious
temperate
cavil
23. Praise
Syllabus
melancholy
disingenuous
extol
24. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
harmonious
incipient
ascertain
antipathy
25. Wandering
expatiate
discrete
perfidy
archaic
26. Luck: amulet
anathema
partisan
riposte
talisman
27. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
assay
Cursory
fortnight
diurnal
28. Changing quickly: changeable
miserly
discrete
mercurial
precursor
29. Nasty: stinking
enigmatic
fetid
intransigent
vituperation
30. Falsehood: give false appearance
dissemble
sonorous
impugn
rancor
31. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
orifice
renitent
pedestrian
talisman
32. Wisdom
amulet
dictum
assay
curmudgeon
33. Carousal: obscene
salacious
fetid
sonorous
morose
34. Family: marriage
eloquent
lament
vituperate
conjugal
35. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
noisome
venerate
inhibit
gainsay
36. Embarrass: humiliation
careen
remission
chagrin
taciturn
37. Poor: hungry greedy
esurient
rhetoric
slothful
salutary
38. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
equitable
anomalous
emulate
odious
39. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
Audacious
acquit
perfidy
fervid
40. Family: person who kill his or her brother
fratricide
laud/laudatory
Espouse
sojourn
41. Overblown/ Wordy:
periphrastic
dissonant
abortive
chagrin
42. Nag: repeatedly than necessary
minatory
sincere
belabor
esoteric
43. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
inscrutable
grandiloquent
recondite
credulous
44. Falsehood: treachery
perfidy
timorous
ambiguous
baleful
45. Pacify/Satisfy
lambaste
sooth
probity
inexorable
46. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
magnanimous
avaricious
duplicity
deride/ derisive
47. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
anachronism
obsequies
careen
venal
48. Nag: to urge
factitious
peripatetic
fissure
admonish
49. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
precursor
esoteric
imperious
enigmatic
50. Lazy/ Sluggish
indolent
laud/laudatory
probity
slothful