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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. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
decry
volatile
aberration
diurnal
2. Beginner/ Amateur
untoward
adventitious
detestation
Dilettante
3. Carousal: shameful
fatuous
admonish
Querulous
turpitude
4. Stubborn:
tendentious
defile
intractable
magnanimous
5. Denying of self: extreme denial
rebuke
sordid
Querulous
ascetic
6. Denying of self:
appease
Advocate
disingenuous
abnegate
7. Praise
dissemble
distaff
askance
venerate
8. Poor: lacking food
indigent
amulet
spartan
Proselyte
9. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
iconoclast
vitriolic
Abrupt
dauntless
10. Carousal: corrupt
courageous
depraved
noisome
vitriolic
11. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
slothful
Pique
recondite
rift
12. Wisdom
Bolster
inert
aphorism
Ancillary
13. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
oblique
endogamous
chagrin
arcane
14. Gaps/Openings:
sonorous
truism
aperture
abhorrence
15. Forgive: free from guilt
Neophyte
aberration
exculpate
peregrination
16. Nag: rebuke
Compendium
reproof
fell
munificent
17. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
fawn
meander
decry
recant
18. Praise: to praise highly
oblique
indigent
eulogize
castigate
19. Assist- Very Generous
dither
Munificent
beneicent
fulsome
20. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
recalcitrant
vitiate
vindictive
elegy
21. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
anachronism
reprobate
Advocate
Abrupt
22. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
Advocate
Inchoate
labyrinth
Audacious
23. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
Curtail
asperity
acrimonious
respite
24. Harmful: deadly
fervid
beneficial
endogamous
baneful
25. Greedy: extremely stingy
sooth
discursive
careen
penurious
26. Luck
fortuitous
tendentious
novitiate
anatagonism
27. Nag: to urge
beneficial
guile
feigned
admonish
28. Not a straight line: grooved edge
munificent
perfidy
serrated
mercenary
29. Weaken: increase severity
exacerbate
extol
Fledgling
Headlong
30. Terse: reserved in speech
aphorism
taciturn
pellucid
anterior
31. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
Querulous
abjure
strident
opaque
32. Investigate: to detect
descry
perfidious
compunction
melodious
33. Criticize/criticism: blame
aggrandize
Tyro
reprehend
portentous
34. Criticize/criticism: mock
Wapish
bromide
deride/ derisive
credulous
35. Generous/Kind
odious
demur
philanthropic
lambaste
36. Falsehood: treachery
gyrate
inhibit
perfidy
craven
37. Falsehood: false story
canard
renege
bombastic
remonstrate
38. Nag: to urge
fortend
taciturn
exhort
denounce
39. Luck: fortunate
riposte
providental
duplicity
avaricious
40. Denying of self:
stoic
aperture
fatuous
assay
41. Greedy: bribery
vacillate
venal
veracious
enjoin
42. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
Precipiate
scathing
palliate
reproof
43. Terse: using few words
decry
wraith
laconic
recant
44. Harsh-Sounding:
anachronism
dissonant
recreant
avaricious
45. Pleasant-Sounding
esoteric
melodious
Espouse
inhibit
46. Boring: dull
pedestrian
loathing
gibe
rue
47. Innocent/ Inexperienced: innocent
ingenuous
inveigh
trite
authoritarian
48. Easy to understand: clear
reprobate
renege
pellucid
interregnum
49. Diffcult ot understand:
recondite
penurious
hinder
Abrupt
50. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
despotic
Callow
rapacious
inert