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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. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
baleful
turgid
bombastic
aberration
2. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
injurious
fatuous
dissonant
antedate
3. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
baneful
Syllabus
denounce
labyrinth
4. Luck: protecting charm
amulet
candor/candid
ardor/ ardent
enmity
5. Nag;
encumber
hector
abhorrence
cirumlocution
6. Embarrass: ashamed
abash
diffident
anachronism
nascent
7. Denying of self:
esurient
abstruse
stoic
interregnum
8. Assist: perosn that support a cause
assay
inimical
aphorism
Proponet
9. Time/Duration/Order; indefinetly lon period of time
mollify
Ancillary
eon
stultify
10. Forgive: free from guilt
absolve
pillory
beneficial
trenchant
11. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
millennium
Tyro
baleful
spartan
12. Copy: to imitate
imperious
inhibit
naive
emulate
13. Sorrow: funeral song
diffident
misanthropic
discrete
threnody
14. Hesitate: to show doubt
imperious
laconic
waver
satiate
15. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
oblique
pithy
sonorous
licentious
16. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
harrangue
gyrate
retrograde
bacchanlian
17. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
phlegmatic
carom
noxious
diatribe
18. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
vindictive
Fledgling
Cursory
castigate
19. Funny:
antedate
recant
mordant
facetious
20. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
recant
vindictive
contrition
Inchoate
21. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
equivocate
mundane
timorous
recalcitrant
22. Nag: rebuke
reproof
aspersion
loathing
abjure
23. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
lucid
defamation
Abridge
fetid
24. Overblown/ Wordy:
salacious
licentious
Audacious
periphrastic
25. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
mordant
defunct
baneful
peremptory
26. Falsehood
apothegm
apocryphal
venerate
pithy
27. Hatred
Bolster
tyrannical
rancor
elegy
28. Nag: long speech
curmudgeon
harrangue
ambulatory
Syllabus
29. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
odious
reprobate
sepulchral
counterpart
30. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
euphonious
orifice
miserly
periphrastic
31. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
fervid
fealty
exonerate
appraise
32. Family: marriage within a social tribe
endogamous
mendacious/ mendacity
veracious
deleterious
33. Copy: exact copy
facsimile
Bolster
indisputable
trite
34. Time/Duration/Order
torpid
temporal
miserly
Dudgeon
35. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
scathing
volatile
noisome
defamation
36. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
careen
inhibit
perspicacious
recidivism
37. Boring: foolish
anomalous
esoteric
fatuous
munificent
38. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
sepulchral
anachronism
fallacious
pedestrian
39. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
sepulchral
Munificent
iconoclast
excoriate
40. Diffcult ot understand: obscure
impede
arcane
oblique
Querulous
41. Embarrass: awkwardness
gaucherie
loathing
sepulchral
renege
42. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
churlish
disconsolate
synchrounous
careen
43. Dictorial: complete obedience
occlued
authoritarian
reprehend
candor/candid
44. Copy: Model
lambaste
paradigm
admonish
compendious
45. Eccentric/ dissimilar: made of different source
sojourn
eclectic
largess
trenchant
46. Sorrow
plaintive
enmity
Callow
fallacious
47. Stubborn: improper
Impetuous
novitiate
untoward
vindicate
48. Nag: to plead
truism
anterior
ascertain
remonstrate
49. Weaken
undermine
novitiate
droll
caustic
50. Hostile: cruel
dissemble
askance
truculent
slake