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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. Dictorial: imperious
recant
anathema
pithy
peremptory
2. Lazy/ Sluggish:
accolade
careen
lackadaisical
capricious
3. Disgusting/Offensive:
prosaic
noisome
oscillate
remission
4. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
Mordant
tirade
undulating
portentous
5. Stubborn
placate
noxious
obsitnate
sepulchral
6. Truth
sincere
aperture
ardor/ ardent
obsequies
7. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): miserable
esurient
eulogize
baleful
mordant
8. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
Petulant
impugn
vituperate
abash
9. Copy: exact copy
facsimile
Bilious
berate
phlegmatic
10. Time/Duration/Order: going before in time
probity
anterior
satiate
esoteric
11. Sorrow: expressing sorrow
remonstrate
taciturn
elegiac
iconoclast
12. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
consanguine
prescient
quotidian
fetid
13. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
abeyance
turbid
ciruitous
labyrinth
14. Falsehood: misleading
fallacious
ambiguous
oscillate
pedestrian
15. Stubborn: uncomprimising
respite
cadaver
intransigent
dolorous
16. Assist: Example Stalwart light house
erudite
Stalwart
salacious
melodious
17. Funny: to taunt; deride
antedate
gibe
Abet
tantamount
18. Sorrow: funeral song
pillory
threnody
fervid
prosaic
19. Equal: fairness
erudite
encomium
equitable
exhort
20. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
impugn
tantamount
pithy
Precipiate
21. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
counterpart
undulating
despotic
mitigate
22. Predict
dictum
unctuous
naive
augur
23. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
respite
trepidation
forlorn
trenchant
24. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
auspicious
volatile
vituperation
iconoclast
25. Death/ Mourning: near death
Abridge
counterpart
gibe
moribound
26. Luck: something by chance
ephemeral
Stalwart
demise
adventitious
27. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
sonorous
renitent
exacerbate
partisan
28. Insincere: lacking sincerity
jocular
providental
ribald
disingenuous
29. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
raucous
waver
talisman
altrustic
30. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
respite
abash
iniquity
specious
31. Diffcult ot understand:
ambiguous
respite
enmity
cadaver
32. Criticize/criticism: berate sharply
objurgate
frankness
plaintive
spurious
33. Pacify/Satisfy
Ancillary
renitent
fissure
satiate
34. Pleasant-Sounding
depraved
melodious
portentous
acclaim
35. Funny:
exacerbate
assuage
mundane
facetious
36. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
antithetic
antedate
platitude
oscillate
37. Overblown/ Wordy
adventitious
peregrination
reprobate
verbose
38. Bad Mood: Snappish
filial
Compendium
Wapish
obloquy
39. Boring: without indistinctive
obscure
pettish
insipid
vindicate
40. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
diffidence
meander
circumvent
Synopsis
41. Bold:fearless
dauntless
deleterious
specious
defer
42. Easy to understand: clear
melancholy
oblique
debauchery
cogent
43. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
dissonant
acrimonious
licentious
abstruse
44. Assist: perosn that support a cause
mercurial
ribald
volatile
Proponet
45. Hostile
conjugal
fealty
Dilettante
antithetic
46. Generous/Kind
unstinting
satiate
eulogize
baleful
47. Harmful
insidious
lull
opaque
simper
48. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
dolorous
noisome
despotic
oscillate
49. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
strident
providental
untoward
accolade
50. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
oblique
prognosticate
mordant
dour