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SAT Word Groups
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Subjects
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sat
,
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. Criticize/criticism: blame
reprehend
mordant
dauntless
peruse
2. Gaps/Openings
respite
clement
lackadaisical
decamp
3. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
putrid
salacious
meander
sententious
4. Family: biologically ancestor
progenitor
mollify
Pique
respite
5. Assist
fetter
spurious
askance
Espouse
6. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
optimum
aggrandize
eon
inscrutable
7. Harmful
melancholy
gibe
mercurial
inimical
8. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
perspicacious
absolve
dither
abeyance
9. Stubborn
anomalous
reproof
antithetic
obdurate
10. Bad Mood: peevish
portentous
bemusing
pettish
remission
11. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
bereave
abnegation
defamation
beneicent
12. Falsehood: give false appearance
vituperation
dissemble
vortex
retrograde
13. Funny: a gleeful chuckle
ribald
salubrious
chortle
epoch
14. Wandering
noxious
forage
aspersion
ephemeral
15. Luck: something by chance
opaque
dither
adventitious
diffidence
16. Family:
absolve
verbose
distaff
acerbic
17. Timid/timidity: fearflu
Proponet
sardonic
Stalwart
timorous
18. Investigate: to find out definitely
ascertain
precursor
anathema
dissemble
19. Stubborn: not able to appease
largess
meander
gibe
implacable
20. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
Inchoate
ardor/ ardent
euphonious
factitious
21. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
retrograde
placate
optimum
Headlong
22. Greedy: inordinately greedy
rapacious
progenitor
destitute
frankness
23. Gaps/Openings
salacious
Munificent
lull
prescient
24. Hostile
stoic
mercurial
misanthropic
temporal
25. Time/Duration/Order
temporal
Precipiate
salutary
pettish
26. Prevent/Obstruct
millennium
discomfort
despotic
capricious
27. Boring: lack of originality
denounce
pithy
banal
impecunious
28. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
taciturn
turbid
impugn
anathema
29. Carousal: excessive indulgence
ostensible
labyrinth
debauchery
loquacious
30. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
Callow
inscrutable
elegy
Corroborate
31. Truth: cannot be doubted
indubitable
eloquent
jocular
foible
32. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
frankness
ersatz
truculent
jocular
33. Bold: Brave
courageous
elegiac
prevaricate
malevolent
34. Insincere: insincerely lavish
scathing
courageous
fulsome
foible
35. Wisdom: instructive saying
Espouse
spartan
apothegm
indigent
36. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
debauchery
detestation
enigmatic
renege
37. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
partisan
excoriate
odious
munificent
38. Lazy/ Sluggish
quiescent
chagrin
fervid
Proponet
39. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
trite
malice
caustic
raucous
40. Copy: exact copy
martinet
deride/ derisive
asperity
facsimile
41. Luck: protecting charm
acrimonious
adage
amulet
respite
42. Easy to understand: clear
undulating
limpid
martinet
clement
43. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
dictum
orifice
fealty
din
44. Stubborn
obsitnate
Stalwart
ostensible
paradigm
45. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
beneficial
miserly
contrition
noisome
46. Truth
lackadaisical
trenchant
indisputable
venal
47. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
simper
anomalous
descry
48. Harmful
noxious
eon
pernicious
iconoclast
49. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
doleful
interregnum
acquit
Burgeoning
50. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
perspicacious
portentous
gullible
noisome