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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. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
recant
venerate
indisputable
penultimate
2. Wisdom
Engender
gibe
truism
askance
3. Not a straight line: to go around
labyrinth
prolix
circumvent
epoch
4. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
curmudgeon
rent
destitute
trenchant
5. Harmful; full of menancing influence
laud/laudatory
factitious
baleful
covetous
6. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
deleterious
esoteric
anachronism
harrangue
7. Lazy/ Sluggish:
lackadaisical
knell
baleful
diffident
8. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
vituperate
tirade
diatribe
discrete
9. Boring: lack of originality
naive
inert
noisome
banal
10. Truth: cannot be doubted
meander
sincere
lugubrious
indubitable
11. Funny
rent
sojourn
riposte
recant
12. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
synchrounous
dolor
equivocate
auspicious
13. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
belittle
duplicity
adage
decry
14. Time/Duration/Order: marked by characteristic of earlier period
discrete
archaic
inimical
interjustice
15. Time/Duration/Order; indefinetly lon period of time
eon
bombastic
debauchery
trepidation
16. Not a straight line: turn to side
contrition
reprehend
occlued
awry
17. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
acquit
undermine
ardor/ ardent
ersatz
18. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
fervid
bereave
iconoclast
prognosticate
19. Predict: a favorable sign
sinuous
specious
encumber
auspice
20. Copy: acting as a substitute
vicarious
vituperation
antipathy
abrogate
21. Greedy:
foible
beneicent
avaricious
lackadaisical
22. Criticize/criticism: vehement speech
Novitiate
probity
trite
tirade
23. Easy to understand
volatile
mordant
abnegation
eloquent
24. Hostile: cruel
impugn
waver
lament
truculent
25. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
novitiate
rhetoric
Fledgling
awry
26. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
esurient
hiatus
arcane
duplicity
27. Weaken: increase severity
exacerbate
aspersion
satiate
circumvent
28. Dictorial: overbearing
impugn
fervid
imperious
nascent
29. Lazy/ Sluggish
Precipiate
prescient
quiescent
dauntless
30. Falsehood: false story
objurgate
canard
inhibit
impecunious
31. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
odium
philanthropic
licentious
ciruitous
32. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
harmonious
mollify
undermine
revile
33. Insincere: conceal truth
Espouse
belittle
unstinting
dissemble
34. Hostile: boorish; rude
depraved
churlish
orifice
malice
35. Funny
levity
pithy
vituperation
indolent
36. Weaken
Dilettante
inhibit
vitiate
gullible
37. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
pillory
melancholy
partisan
placate
38. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
Petulant
eloquent
succinct
exhort
39. Bold: extremely daring
rift
sepulchral
insipid
Audacious
40. Prevent/Obstruct
scathing
sinuous
impede
novitiate
41. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
Asperity
paradigm
dissonant
Abridge
42. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
abhorrence
reprobate
obviate
abstain
43. Family: biologically ancestor
progenitor
rescind
taciturn
indigent
44. Copy: predecessor
incipient
fulsome
tyrannical
precursor
45. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
droll
fetid
harrangue
scathing
46. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
venerate
despotic
lackadaisical
mollify
47. Copy: to imitate
zealot
harrangue
emulate
prognosticate
48. Stubborn: not able to appease
implacable
baleful
descry
torpid
49. Generous/Kind
philanthropic
enervate
careen
Proponet
50. Boring: usual
lucid
noisome
erudite
quotidian