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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Poor: hungry greedy
gainsay
penultimate
esurient
noisome
2. Predict; fated to die
fey
morose
Mainstay
Dudgeon
3. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
insidious
aberration
retrograde
lethargic
4. Insincere: pretended
gainsay
elegiac
misanthropic
ostensible
5. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
interregnum
precursor
gibe
Burgeoning
6. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
abstain
Petulant
intransigent
dogmatic
7. Generous/Kind
unstinting
temporal
reproof
rebuke
8. Luck: something by chance
mendacious/ mendacity
adventitious
eulogize
acquit
9. Sorrow: funeral song
strident
threnody
prosaic
fey
10. Funny:
emulate
mundane
facetious
pellucid
11. Copy: exact copy
adulterate
millennium
facsimile
talisman
12. Praise: to solute
Headlong
acclaim
dissipated
contrition
13. Pacify/Satisfy
abjure
defer
levity
abstruse
14. Wisdom
mollify
gainsay
truism
Terse
15. Greedy
tirade
peregrination
covetous
decamp
16. Prevent/Obstruct
fetter
harmonious
candor/candid
aspersion
17. Nag;
taciturn
riposte
ephemeral
hector
18. Criticize/criticism: mock
disingenuous
deride/ derisive
mundane
eclectic
19. Walking About
lament
itinerant
authoritarian
garrulous
20. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
erroneous
jocular
acidulous
hiatus
21. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
indolent
rhetoric
sincere
prescient
22. Diffcult ot understand: mysterious in meaning
levity
cryptic
slake
nascent
23. Weaken
truism
equity
inscrutable
vitiate
24. Weaken
exacerbate
enervate
ambiguous
diffident
25. Embarrass: awkwardness
dissemble
anomalous
gaucherie
vindicate
26. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
rift
quintessence
rebarbative
ingenuous
27. Carousal: shameful
turpitude
partisan
Burgeoning
dictum
28. Poor: having no money
undermine
impecunious
prescient
Headlong
29. Family: marriage within a social tribe
esoteric
mercenary
endogamous
credulous
30. Prevent/Obstruct
Bolster
Terse
platitude
fortend
31. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
turbid
Precipiate
Proponet
fealty
32. Dictorial: overbearing
fatuous
vindicate
imperious
stultify
33. Gaps/Openings
interregnum
loathing
mordant
antipathy
34. Overblown/ Wordy
verbose
imperious
indisputable
detestation
35. Criticize/criticism: abuse
forage
inert
inexorable
pillory
36. Greedy: bribery
Bolster
vitiate
hegemonic
venal
37. Smart/Learned: clever
eloquent
reprobate
acidulous
astute
38. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
ardor/ ardent
pillory
Impetuous
feigned
39. Bad Mood: peevish
vituperate
iconoclast
pettish
articulate
40. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
augur
caustic
lackadaisical
enigmatic
41. Time/Duration/Order: 2 weeks
fortnight
feigned
fawn
teeter
42. Criticize/criticism: shameful
Ancillary
hinder
opprobrium
anathema
43. Harmful: deadly
inhibit
sonorous
baneful
respite
44. Changing quickly: changeable
volatile
threnody
anachronism
aberration
45. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
reprobate
din
invidious
Impetuous
46. Insincere: lacking sincerity
dissemble
decamp
disingenuous
factitious
47. Easy to understand: clear
cogent
rue
fulsome
remonstrate
48. Diffcult ot understand: obscure
vindicate
largess
arcane
obviate
49. Truth: being true
foible
verity
peruse
moribound
50. Boring: without indistinctive
foible
aberration
remonstrate
insipid