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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. Nasty
Impetuous
noxious
iniquity
conjugal
2. Sorrow
Abridge
stoic
lament
equivocate
3. Hatred: extreme repugnance
temporal
abhorrence
decry
chagrin
4. Carousal: shameful
forage
careen
turpitude
lament
5. Not a straight line: side glance
mendacious/ mendacity
impede
askance
ludicrous
6. Diffcult ot understand: obscure
aperture
arcane
feigned
inscrutable
7. Bad Mood: Complaining
novitiate
mitigate
askance
Querulous
8. Harmful
aberrant
deride/ derisive
insidious
hinder
9. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
hector
Abridge
threnody
Mordant
10. Greedy:
pernicious
capricious
avaricious
rift
11. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
rent
fervid
cirumlocution
tyrannical
12. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
objurgate
cryptic
retrograde
excoriate
13. Lazy/ Sluggish:
abortive
fervid
moribound
lackadaisical
14. Criticize/criticism: abuse
odium
pillory
malevolent
mitigate
15. Funny: waggish
abash
putrid
fey
jocular
16. Pacify/Satisfy
bacchanlian
prescient
assuage
Sustenance
17. Not a straight line: turn to side
grandiloquent
disingenuous
fallacious
awry
18. Assist
Espouse
quotidian
Engender
disconsolate
19. Truth
sincere
fetid
exonerate
noxious
20. Funny
levity
exacerbate
verbose
ciruitous
21. Harmful
torpid
misanthropic
arcane
pernicious
22. Terse
succinct
temporal
Synopsis
providental
23. Prevent/Obstruct
lackadaisical
verity
millennium
inhibit
24. Predict; fated to die
arcane
spartan
fey
lucid
25. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
impecunious
defile
magnanimous
compunction
26. Timid/timidity: fearflu
laconic
timorous
torpid
augur
27. Equal: fair
descry
extol
vexing
equity
28. Death/ Mourning: death
demise
rebarbative
disconsolate
rent
29. Hatred: opposite force
foible
indubitable
anatagonism
recidivism
30. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
defamation
optimum
succinct
ameliorate
31. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
Asperity
aberration
progenitor
erudite
32. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
impecunious
debauchery
oscillate
trenchant
33. Harmful: deadly
dolorous
beneficial
appraise
baneful
34. Nag: to urge
castigate
admonish
reproof
jocular
35. Generous/Kind:
facetious
Mordant
Curtail
largess
36. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
peregrination
epoch
forage
sonorous
37. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
pellucid
rent
aggrandize
miserly
38. Prevent/Obstruct
encumber
reproof
turgid
quiescent
39. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
anomaly
Novitiate
defer
iconoclast
40. Equal:
esurient
tantamount
mercurial
interregnum
41. Copy: Model
iniquity
Petulant
paradigm
pusillanimous
42. Hatred
Wapish
Novitiate
enmity
eloquent
43. Denying of self:
exculpate
avaricious
abnegate
exhort
44. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
obscure
altrustic
calmuny
appease
45. Boring: to make common by frequent use
destitute
hackneyed
amulet
oscillate
46. Lazy/ Sluggish
lethargic
bromide
libertine
obsitnate
47. Luck: fortunate
undulating
Wapish
fell
providental
48. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
disingenuous
perspicacious
harrangue
diffident
49. Pleasant-Sounding
irascible
euphonious
strident
candor/candid
50. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
eon
fortend
verbose
vitriolic