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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. Insincere: moralistic fervor
unctuous
torpid
aggrandize
baneful
2. Timid/timidity: cowardly
abnegation
abhorrence
providental
craven
3. Nag: prescribe with authority
conjugal
enjoin
opprobrium
indubitable
4. Not a straight line: round about
ciruitous
cryptic
apocryphal
sardonic
5. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
aberrant
obsitnate
decry
temperate
6. Death/ Mourning: death
abjure
demise
obdurate
sidle
7. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
Neophyte
injurious
gyrate
berate
8. Falsehood: speak falsely
rift
prevaricate
Fledgling
antipathy
9. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
Tyro
gaucherie
lament
diurnal
10. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
Burgeoning
spurious
ribald
platitude
11. Carousal: vulgar speech
ribald
quintessence
intransigent
eloquent
12. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
Proponet
demise
despotic
facsimile
13. Greedy
bereave
impugn
pernicious
miserly
14. Investigate: examine in detail
peruse
indolent
periphrastic
Dudgeon
15. Criticize/criticism
expiate
hinder
reprove
sardonic
16. Not a straight line: turn to side
bombastic
knell
inimical
awry
17. Equal: fair
archaic
anterior
endogamous
equity
18. Dictorial: tyrant
tyrannical
reprehend
debauchery
hiatus
19. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
temporal
inveigh
odious
millennium
20. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
amulet
Precipiate
assay
noxious
21. Dictorial: imperious
equivocate
meander
fatuous
peremptory
22. Weaken
impede
opprobrium
vitiate
dissemble
23. Timid/timidity
pusillanimous
fallacious
noxious
dissonant
24. Hesitate: vacillate
dither
axiom
acidulous
askance
25. Truth
defunct
indisputable
ardor/ ardent
tantamount
26. Harmful: treacherous
sooth
caustic
perfidious
fortuitous
27. Diffcult ot understand
novitiate
abstruse
truculent
eulogize
28. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
bereave
Proponet
partisan
hiatus
29. Assist
kismet
gibe
decamp
Countenance
30. Dictorial: overbearing
verbose
consanguine
Inchoate
imperious
31. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
scion
Fledgling
disconsolate
hiatus
32. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
cadaver
prognosticate
antithetic
obsequies
33. Sorrow: funeral song
Bolster
Synopsis
threnody
teeter
34. Beginner/ Amateur:
dour
Proselyte
encumber
inexorable
35. Praise
laud/laudatory
archaic
platitude
Mordant
36. Dictorial: predominance
ingenuous
Curtail
Umbrage
hegemonic
37. Prevent/Obstruct
canny
inhibit
pithy
adventitious
38. Copy: predecessor
rapacious
Petulant
precursor
careen
39. Unusual
iconoclast
baneful
volatile
abnegation
40. Family: having same ancestry
obloquy
iconoclast
noisome
consanguine
41. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
rent
indubitable
vexing
strident
42. Funny: a silly smile
Ancillary
lament
indubitable
simper
43. Pleasant-Sounding
lucid
harmonious
Dudgeon
sardonic
44. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
abrogate
recant
fallacious
Proponet
45. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
abjure
droll
turbid
vitiate
46. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
ambiguous
doctrinaire
ascetic
47. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
providental
belabor
belittle
canny
48. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
synchrounous
prolix
grandiloquent
inscrutable
49. Bad Mood: peevish
emulate
insidious
remonstrate
pettish
50. Family: a descendant
nascent
labyrinth
scion
satiate