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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. Falsehood
defer
apocryphal
harmonious
Neophyte
2. Family: having same ancestry
flippant
consanguine
decry
ersatz
3. Criticize/criticism: belitte
auspice
unctuous
disparge
diffidence
4. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
raillery
esoteric
miserly
auspice
5. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
depraved
fortend
Corroborate
anachronism
6. Pacify/Satisfy
ascertain
indubitable
acidulous
appease
7. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
trenchant
rhetoric
beneficial
paradigm
8. Terse: using few words
laconic
salubrious
vacillate
licentious
9. Wisdom
sententious
candor/candid
prosaic
abeyance
10. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
carom
defamation
ameliorate
equitable
11. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
caustic
fallacious
iniquity
volatile
12. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
askance
talisman
Inchoate
iconoclast
13. Stubborn
absolve
Corroborate
obdurate
Asperity
14. Lazy/ Sluggish
sardonic
fetid
slothful
credulous
15. Weaken
vitiate
recidivism
expiate
Headlong
16. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
amulet
doctrinaire
eon
verbose
17. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
orifice
anathema
idiosyncrasy
fervid
18. Criticize/criticism: shameful
obdurate
encumber
opprobrium
arcane
19. Denying of self: self restrained
esoteric
temperate
acquit
deleterious
20. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
noisome
acrimonious
diatribe
dissemble
21. Funny: a gleeful chuckle
fortuitous
malice
chortle
tantamount
22. Act quickly
Apace
rapacious
novitiate
spurious
23. Truth: being true
propitiate
probity
epoch
verity
24. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
dissemble
harrangue
teeter
pernicious
25. Wandering: temporary stay
sojourn
aberrant
Espouse
partisan
26. Sorrow
inscrutable
erroneous
plaintive
temperate
27. Bad Mood: Annoyance
scathing
Umbrage
renege
aggrandize
28. Stubborn: improper
untoward
fissure
clement
vacillate
29. Time/Duration/Order: 1000 year
exonerate
fealty
millennium
arcane
30. Bad Mood: Complaining
expiate
Querulous
riposte
fissure
31. Hatred
erroneous
rancor
sincere
rescind
32. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
sepulchral
vindictive
oblique
waver
33. Greedy: inordinately greedy
precursor
rapacious
deleterious
discursive
34. Falsehood: speak falsely
platitude
simper
pellucid
prevaricate
35. Boring: dull
apocryphal
pedestrian
Munificent
rent
36. Prevent/Obstruct
turbid
obdurate
impede
Proselyte
37. Funny
impede
riposte
erudite
tyrannical
38. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
irascible
Neophyte
hackneyed
ingenuous
39. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
careen
vitriolic
opprobrium
facetious
40. Stubborn: not obedient
bereave
adage
recalcitrant
diurnal
41. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
mordant
mordacious
jocular
loquacious
42. Praise
taciturn
raillery
libidinous
laud/laudatory
43. Withdrawal/Retreat
caustic
demur
antecede
aberrant
44. Nag: long speech
Inchoate
antecede
vortex
harrangue
45. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
duplicity
obdurate
partisan
Espouse
46. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
ambiguous
Callow
assay
Countenance
47. Hostile
feigned
misanthropic
prevaricate
libertine
48. Carousal: wicked
sardonic
iniquity
consanguine
macabre
49. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
perfidious
intractable
Pique
din
50. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
dolorous
calmuny
sardonic
feigned