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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. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
foible
fratricide
fervid
abstain
2. Assist
Ancillary
Advocate
interjustice
belabor
3. Funny: waggish; humorous
accolade
fetid
droll
antithetic
4. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
adulterate
Syllabus
odious
redress
5. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
injurious
fortend
Abridge
scion
6. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
oblique
abhorrence
awry
disconsolate
7. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
obsequies
defer
courageous
sonorous
8. Pacify/Satisfy: appease/ concillated
dither
propitiate
Stalwart
rebarbative
9. Weaken
dither
inhibit
epigram
exhort
10. Wisdom
canard
truism
Abridge
chortle
11. Predict
gaucherie
anatagonism
prescient
droll
12. Hostile: eaisly angered
licentious
obloquy
irascible
ardor/ ardent
13. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
vacillate
admonish
guile
Headlong
14. Greedy: extremely stingy
penurious
axiom
kismet
verity
15. Prevent/Obstruct
temporal
Abet
impede
lull
16. Stubborn: improper
expiate
prosaic
untoward
levity
17. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
harmonious
turpitude
emulate
rift
18. Harmful: treacherous
morose
sooth
perfidious
periphrastic
19. Innocent/ Inexperienced
rancor
naive
esoteric
esoteric
20. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
providental
philanthropic
courageous
altrustic
21. Praise: honor
aggrandize
equivocate
flippant
opprobrium
22. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
caustic
aberrant
elegiac
Bolster
23. Wisdom
vicarious
appease
equitable
epigram
24. Easy to understand: clear
pellucid
abhorrence
perfidy
apocryphal
25. Greedy: acting merely for money
eulogize
sooth
mercenary
belittle
26. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
prognosticate
mollify
pettish
aperture
27. Easy to understand: clear
carom
limpid
fealty
stoic
28. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
fatuous
revile
Headlong
dolorous
29. Stubborn: resistant
specious
waver
renitent
awry
30. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
remission
esurient
impugn
depraved
31. Diffcult ot understand
chicanery
equity
defile
obscure
32. Easy to understand: clear
enigmatic
perfidy
cogent
abortive
33. Smart/Learned
conjugal
canny
Bolster
slake
34. Bold: extremely daring
authoritarian
Audacious
turbid
insipid
35. Prevent/Obstruct
diatribe
fortend
defile
libidinous
36. Innocent/ Inexperienced: state of being novice
novitiate
compunction
Asperity
disconsolate
37. Generous/Kind: kindness
knell
ephemeral
beneicent
indisputable
38. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
asperity
awry
sardonic
excoriate
39. Greedy: bribery
volatile
venal
anathema
anomaly
40. Pleasant-Sounding
melodious
paradigm
salubrious
hinder
41. Weaken
undermine
abnegation
rancor
ambiguous
42. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
equivocate
Pique
abhorrence
diatribe
43. Praise: to solute
dour
fetid
esoteric
acclaim
44. Boring: common/ banal
Corroborate
mundane
elegiac
apocryphal
45. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
Munificent
enervate
discomfort
magnanimous
46. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
taciturn
turgid
impede
remission
47. Walking About
peripatetic
dauntless
philanthropic
lackadaisical
48. Death/ Mourning: near death
moribound
undermine
enigmatic
diurnal
49. Nasty: stinking
fetid
curmudgeon
defer
churlish
50. Death/ Mourning: dead body
cadaver
canny
raillery
bereave