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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. Family: having same ancestry
exonerate
askance
consanguine
penultimate
2. Denying of self:
spartan
sepulchral
fetid
canard
3. Boring: to make common by frequent use
sojourn
dauntless
hackneyed
elegiac
4. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
obloquy
acidulous
epigram
Mordant
5. Gaps/Openings: small narrow space
vortex
impugn
interjustice
obsitnate
6. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
abjure
scion
dolorous
rent
7. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
anathema
Headlong
remonstrate
ascertain
8. Criticize/criticism: to scold
credulous
berate
beneicent
esoteric
9. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
prognosticate
mitigate
misanthropic
careen
10. Beginner/ Amateur:
ardor/ ardent
Proselyte
lackadaisical
abstruse
11. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
abjure
libertine
putrid
remonstrate
12. Time/Duration/Order: to go before
aberrant
debauchery
antecede
droll
13. Equal: fair
equity
ciruitous
gyrate
prognosticate
14. Hesitate:
oscillate
penurious
appease
curt
15. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
platitude
frankness
forlorn
Abet
16. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
conjugal
temperate
Precipiate
insipid
17. Easy to understand: plain
guile
jocular
Dilettante
evident
18. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
fetid
assay
epigram
lament
19. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
rancor
gullible
quintessence
quotidian
20. Funny: a gleeful chuckle
chortle
orifice
platitude
mercurial
21. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
ascetic
obloquy
esoteric
diatribe
22. Truth: faithfulness
zealot
sooth
fealty
cadaver
23. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
Abet
melodious
oblique
tendentious
24. Generous/Kind: kindness
beneicent
unctuous
irascible
abnegate
25. Funny
abeyance
ludicrous
elegiac
bombastic
26. Luck: fortunate
defamation
reprobate
periphrastic
providental
27. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
beneicent
Tyro
mitigate
deride/ derisive
28. Insincere: pretended
Apace
ostensible
quotidian
vortex
29. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
inert
esurient
dither
hackneyed
30. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
venerate
grandiloquent
factitious
rhetoric
31. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
defunct
sidle
rebarbative
lament
32. Harsh-Sounding
perfidy
expatiate
cacophony
fell
33. Diffcult ot understand
scathing
perfidy
axiom
abstruse
34. Easy to understand:
antipathy
articulate
lament
eon
35. Predict
prescient
hiatus
bemusing
fetid
36. Sorrow
platitude
banal
lugubrious
Mordant
37. Harmful
inimical
sordid
sonorous
spurious
38. Easy to understand
altrustic
eloquent
aberration
circumvent
39. Death/ Mourning: dead/ not operating
defunct
indolent
aberrant
reprehend
40. Carousal:filthy
garrulous
facetious
remonstrate
sordid
41. Sorrow: mournful
aberrant
palliate
doleful
portentous
42. Stubborn
ambiguous
placate
Countenance
obdurate
43. Forgive: to clear
rebuke
vindicate
covetous
acerbic
44. Boring: foolish
mordacious
awry
fatuous
antipathy
45. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
antedate
avaricious
eon
vituperation
46. Truth
ostensible
sincere
iconoclast
bromide
47. Assist-A person or thing that acts as chief support
Mainstay
truism
endogamous
malevolent
48. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
fortend
accolade
bombastic
mollify
49. Harmful: treacherous
injurious
mendacious/ mendacity
venerate
perfidious
50. Changing quickly: changeable
torpid
mercurial
insidious
munificent