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SAT Word Groups
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Subjects
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sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Beginner/ Amateur:
berate
vituperate
Proselyte
fissure
2. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
largess
abatement
elegy
discrete
3. Not a straight line: round about
Proponet
philanthropic
ciruitous
inert
4. Withdrawal/Retreat
anachronism
enjoin
demur
defile
5. Equal: fair
courageous
retrograde
irascible
equity
6. Hostile: bad temper
curmudgeon
lament
largess
obviate
7. Falsehood: give false appearance
pettish
dissemble
archaic
fetid
8. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
ciruitous
opaque
renitent
lackadaisical
9. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
inscrutable
depraved
encomium
esoteric
10. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
gibe
dissemble
quintessence
penurious
11. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
Countenance
belittle
ciruitous
specious
12. Easy to understand: clear
volatile
cogent
remonstrate
askance
13. Harmful:
deleterious
doctrinaire
abstruse
carom
14. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
demur
Curtail
quiescent
ameliorate
15. Funny: a gleeful chuckle
Inchoate
fortnight
chortle
exculpate
16. Assist- Very Generous
vacillate
vicarious
rebarbative
Munificent
17. Terse: brief
pithy
malevolent
ostensible
Petulant
18. Wisdom: instructive saying
rescind
apothegm
martinet
vituperate
19. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
Dudgeon
partisan
appease
epoch
20. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
anomaly
forage
abhorrence
recondite
21. Death/ Mourning: dead/ not operating
raucous
defunct
inscrutable
scathing
22. Stubborn: uncomprimising
recondite
epigram
intransigent
plaintive
23. Hatred: loathed
providental
discomfort
acidulous
anathema
24. Prevent/Obstruct
pusillanimous
reprove
rescind
inhibit
25. Gaps/Openings
salutary
fell
lull
anatagonism
26. Prevent/Obstruct
morose
recalcitrant
occlued
auspicious
27. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
miserly
dogmatic
fulsome
impugn
28. Carousal: shameful
slake
turpitude
ascetic
Headlong
29. Funny
inhibit
dictum
riposte
duplicity
30. Hostile
grandiloquent
foible
prognosticate
antithetic
31. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
indigent
bemusing
mollify
insipid
32. Nasty
Engender
noisome
destitute
iconoclast
33. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
appraise
denounce
facsimile
Novitiate
34. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
turpitude
jocular
recondite
castigate
35. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
synchrounous
obscure
discursive
sojourn
36. Prevent/Obstruct
threnody
absolve
impede
succinct
37. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
meander
detestation
adventitious
anterior
38. Dictorial: complete obedience
authoritarian
diatribe
temporal
eloquent
39. Withdrawal/Retreat: repeat
vitiate
rescind
objurgate
pithy
40. Carousal:filthy
laud/laudatory
probity
foible
sordid
41. Changing quickly: erractic
acclaim
ephemeral
capricious
anathema
42. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
Mainstay
Dudgeon
waver
renege
43. Nag;
turpitude
hector
trite
pusillanimous
44. Truth: cannot be doubted
compendious
pellucid
indubitable
arcane
45. Sorrow: expressing sorrow
elegiac
curmudgeon
dauntless
Proponet
46. Luck: fortunate
philanthropic
prosaic
providental
garrulous
47. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
lugubrious
carom
gainsay
reprove
48. Not a straight line: side glance
ephemeral
decamp
askance
Cursory
49. Lazy/ Sluggish
lethargic
Querulous
unctuous
diurnal
50. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
levity
expatiate
Headlong
diffidence