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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.
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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. Family: a descendant
minatory
temporal
scion
fortnight
2. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
tyro
succinct
factitious
labyrinth
3. Lazy/ Sluggish
obdurate
meander
torpid
distaff
4. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
serrated
vituperate
deleterious
indolent
5. Generous/Kind:
munificent
iconoclast
remonstrate
forlorn
6. Pacify/Satisfy
appease
mollify
temporal
bereave
7. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
ribald
indubitable
licentious
lament
8. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
Mainstay
abjure
trite
abortive
9. Unusual
mollify
iconoclast
kismet
deleterious
10. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
lament
partisan
acclaim
credulous
11. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
factitious
axiom
chagrin
licentious
12. Wisdom: instructive saying
erroneous
cryptic
abjure
apothegm
13. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
succinct
trite
rent
curmudgeon
14. Hesitate: to show doubt
waver
destitute
propitiate
idiosyncrasy
15. Nag: to urge
truism
anachronism
admonish
malice
16. Generous/Kind:
fetid
largess
inveigh
aperture
17. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
altrustic
iconoclast
Headlong
slake
18. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
interjustice
decry
sinuous
revile
19. Walking About
peripatetic
abash
aperture
esurient
20. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
noxious
assuage
Pique
rue
21. Funny: waggish; humorous
slake
droll
caustic
distaff
22. Hesitate: vacillate
dither
trite
progenitor
aggrandize
23. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
sincere
bereave
Curtail
eon
24. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
altrustic
retrograde
bacchanlian
hinder
25. Sorrow
spurious
adulterate
plaintive
absolve
26. Wisdom: trite saying
bromide
fissure
specious
remonstrate
27. Luck: presenting in favorable condition
propitiate
providental
rapacious
pellucid
28. Lazy/ Sluggish
lethargic
prolix
Proselyte
anterior
29. Truth: speaking the truth
inimical
moribound
candor/candid
veracious
30. Timid/timidity: cowardly
objurgate
idiosyncrasy
craven
anterior
31. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
curmudgeon
occlued
defer
lambaste
32. Copy: Model
encumber
injurious
paradigm
Countenance
33. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
sooth
elegiac
garrulous
disconsolate
34. Innocent/ Inexperienced: beginner in learning anything
credulous
gibe
tyro
defer
35. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
Neophyte
fissure
foible
mollify
36. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
periphrastic
temperate
esoteric
despotic
37. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
denounce
reproof
sepulchral
Abrupt
38. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
ambiguous
portentous
remonstrate
reprobate
39. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful/ give offense
invidious
astute
appease
Espouse
40. Wandering
bacchanlian
vitriolic
forage
indolent
41. Prevent/Obstruct
Syllabus
eulogize
inhibit
propitiate
42. Beginning/Young: procreate
Engender
craven
clement
loathing
43. Sorrow: gloomily
cogent
retrograde
impede
morose
44. Poor
destitute
Asperity
vicarious
vituperation
45. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
wraith
doleful
rancor
fell
46. Prevent/Obstruct
anatagonism
rhetoric
fell
occlued
47. Changing quickly: erractic
capricious
jocular
verity
erudite
48. Weaken
tyro
inhibit
aberration
belabor
49. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
castigate
distaff
Tyro
perfidious
50. Terse: brief
asperity
verbose
perfidy
curt