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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. Greedy: extremely stingy
penurious
trenchant
belittle
rescind
2. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
lament
obviate
incipient
paradigm
3. Praise
laud/laudatory
courageous
sententious
licentious
4. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
tirade
dolorous
Headlong
baneful
5. Beginner/ Amateur:
dissemble
wraith
Proselyte
Fledgling
6. Pacify/Satisfy
assuage
tantamount
intractable
optimum
7. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
forlorn
lackadaisical
vexing
rift
8. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
slake
berate
aspersion
esurient
9. Luck: fate
loathing
nascent
hector
kismet
10. Insincere: conceal truth
droll
dissemble
indisputable
tyrannical
11. Eccentric/ dissimilar: separate
ludicrous
Precipiate
discrete
adventitious
12. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
filial
verbose
eulogize
objurgate
13. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not in chronological time
exacerbate
fetter
anachronism
rebarbative
14. Wisdom
epigram
fey
raucous
abrogate
15. Weaken
adulterate
verbose
tendentious
authoritarian
16. Predict; fated to die
Abrupt
fey
exacerbate
progenitor
17. Easy to understand: clear
limpid
licentious
anathema
deleterious
18. Bad Mood: Complaining
verity
castigate
bemusing
Querulous
19. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
renitent
irascible
portentous
lambaste
20. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
trenchant
bacchanlian
Novitiate
esurient
21. Hostile
eclectic
misanthropic
verbose
vexing
22. Healthy
salubrious
encumber
Impetuous
vacillate
23. Timid/timidity: tremor
trepidation
objurgate
elegiac
lethargic
24. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
laud/laudatory
turgid
antipathy
indisputable
25. Greedy
ciruitous
miserly
ambiguous
venerate
26. Funny: waggish
jocular
articulate
cacophony
demur
27. Pacify/Satisfy
libidinous
appease
spurious
providental
28. Hatred
loathing
Pique
pernicious
obviate
29. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
ambiguous
decry
penultimate
tendentious
30. Harmful
insidious
hegemonic
pettish
bemusing
31. Assist
Bolster
timorous
descry
Callow
32. Boring: lack of originality
Countenance
arcane
banal
aggrandize
33. Carousal: obscene
salacious
reprobate
largess
anachronism
34. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
deride/ derisive
Cursory
encumber
sincere
35. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
ambiguous
Munificent
inveigh
fervid
36. Carousal: corrupt
temperate
quotidian
fealty
depraved
37. Truth: sincere in speech
foible
rift
candor/candid
Proponet
38. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
gainsay
dissonant
vexing
exhort
39. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement giving general view
Synopsis
adage
enmity
quotidian
40. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
absolve
lucid
calmuny
equivocate
41. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
mordacious
diffidence
anachronism
pettish
42. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
oblique
ameliorate
Dilettante
nascent
43. Gaps/Openings
lull
avaricious
belittle
grandiloquent
44. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
revile
belabor
auspice
rhetoric
45. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
iconoclast
emulate
Espouse
inexorable
46. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
aspersion
antedate
pillory
noisome
47. Terse: concise
reprehend
lament
compendious
droll
48. Copy: Model
paradigm
mordant
augur
waver
49. Predict: a favorable sign
obviate
auspice
morose
odious
50. Praise: to praise highly
interregnum
decry
axiom
eulogize