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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
erudite
riposte
stultify
deleterious
2. Insincere: conceal truth
dour
dissemble
impede
perspicacious
3. Pacify/Satisfy
cirumlocution
reprobate
threnody
sooth
4. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
millennium
fulsome
filial
defile
5. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
deride/ derisive
decamp
inimical
obdurate
6. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
rebarbative
kismet
dissonant
recalcitrant
7. Carousal: corrupt
depraved
exacerbate
pellucid
cirumlocution
8. Stubborn
obdurate
sonorous
Curtail
platitude
9. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
avaricious
fortend
baleful
opaque
10. Harmful
pernicious
Callow
altrustic
anathema
11. Diffcult ot understand:
Inchoate
abjure
doleful
ambiguous
12. Sorrow: mournful
detestation
doleful
gibe
caustic
13. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
salutary
redress
bereave
inveigh
14. Boring: dull
pedestrian
spurious
counterpart
taciturn
15. Timid/timidity: tremor
aperture
grandiloquent
trepidation
aphorism
16. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
perspicacious
recidivism
ambulatory
sinuous
17. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
destitute
exhort
iconoclast
exculpate
18. Predict: indicative
laud/laudatory
Terse
largess
portentous
19. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
revile
calmuny
expatiate
anomalous
20. Embarrass: awkwardness
mendacious/ mendacity
knell
sepulchral
gaucherie
21. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
lethargic
erudite
rift
antedate
22. Wisdom: trite saying
truculent
bromide
assay
veracious
23. Gaps/Openings
chicanery
Synopsis
counterpart
lull
24. Withdrawal/Retreat
arcane
interregnum
recidivism
descry
25. Assist-A person or thing that acts as chief support
quiescent
Mainstay
dauntless
gyrate
26. Embarrass
paradigm
prescient
raillery
expiate
27. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
tyro
aberration
palliate
undulating
28. Withdrawal/Retreat
oblique
riposte
Espouse
demur
29. Not a straight line: grooved edge
acclaim
Stalwart
Advocate
serrated
30. Unusual: perculiar manner
rebuke
idiosyncrasy
fratricide
abeyance
31. Criticize/criticism
caustic
reprove
sonorous
quiescent
32. Falsehood: crafty deception
Cursory
descry
guile
carom
33. Innocent/ Inexperienced: state of being novice
augur
compendious
Inchoate
novitiate
34. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
lambaste
calmuny
waver
emulate
35. Easy to understand: plain
abash
Tyro
evident
palliate
36. Hatred
rancor
indolent
foible
ephemeral
37. Overblown/ Wordy:
inimical
probity
bombastic
sardonic
38. Truth: sincere in speech
inveigh
mundane
candor/candid
mordacious
39. Timid/timidity: cowardly
magnanimous
churlish
abash
craven
40. Stubborn: unalterable
fawn
temperate
inexorable
Terse
41. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): violent condemnation
discursive
scathing
vituperation
revile
42. Hostile: eaisly angered
intractable
irascible
indisputable
rent
43. Funny: to taunt; deride
peregrination
portentous
gibe
raillery
44. Luck: fate
anomalous
exculpate
kismet
din
45. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
temporal
plaintive
beneicent
mordacious
46. Time/Duration/Order
temporal
incipient
abjure
gibe
47. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
noisome
waver
retrograde
bombastic
48. Nag: find fault with uncertainty
cavil
fissure
dogmatic
filial
49. Lazy/ Sluggish
lethargic
quiescent
loathing
trenchant
50. Lazy/ Sluggish
baleful
abnegate
vitriolic
torpid