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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. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
recidivism
inimical
trenchant
ameliorate
2. Sorrow: mournful
doleful
temperate
Stalwart
mercenary
3. Truth: sincere in speech
forage
Callow
capricious
candor/candid
4. Overblown/ Wordy:
Mordant
sordid
exacerbate
bombastic
5. Wisdom
platitude
gyrate
careen
melancholy
6. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
intractable
decamp
trite
Callow
7. Funny
serrated
fallacious
ludicrous
renege
8. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
fortuitous
baleful
malevolent
placate
9. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
asperity
acerbic
vitriolic
Munificent
10. Easy to understand:
sententious
aggrandize
untoward
articulate
11. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
Precipiate
mitigate
filial
reprehend
12. Funny: lacking in seriouness
prognosticate
flippant
assuage
recreant
13. Harmful
insidious
baleful
verbose
riposte
14. Dictorial: tyrant
foible
mitigate
tyrannical
sonorous
15. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
inscrutable
rent
doctrinaire
quiescent
16. Assist
Ancillary
truculent
abjure
indigent
17. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
partisan
ambulatory
flippant
frankness
18. Generous/Kind:
reprove
minatory
largess
loathing
19. Hatred
portentous
enmity
curmudgeon
retrograde
20. Copy: duplication
caustic
optimum
counterpart
covetous
21. Prevent/Obstruct
endogamous
bemusing
impede
remonstrate
22. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
simulated
injurious
Petulant
anatagonism
23. Boring: lack of originality
Headlong
turpitude
temporal
banal
24. Time/Duration/Order: 1000 year
pernicious
vitiate
slothful
millennium
25. Terse: using few words
esurient
laconic
rebarbative
chicanery
26. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
archaic
enmity
insipid
renege
27. Time/Duration/Order: going before in time
anterior
inimical
deride/ derisive
sooth
28. Terse: concise
truculent
compendious
Ancillary
mercenary
29. Prevent/Obstruct
discomfort
equitable
excoriate
remonstrate
30. Easy to understand: clear
vexing
loathing
lucid
appraise
31. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
caustic
forage
iconoclast
emulate
32. Assist-To make more clear
Corroborate
capricious
depraved
Inchoate
33. Changing quickly: changeable
baleful
facsimile
baleful
mercurial
34. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
Inchoate
aspersion
contrition
depraved
35. Wandering
talisman
factitious
forage
forlorn
36. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
cirumlocution
authoritarian
salacious
malevolent
37. Hesitate:
noisome
curmudgeon
oscillate
esoteric
38. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
ambiguous
fetter
denounce
Umbrage
39. Time/Duration/Order: to go before
despotic
abnegate
antecede
bombastic
40. Hostile: boorish; rude
impecunious
reprobate
churlish
novitiate
41. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
harrangue
verity
churlish
libertine
42. Harsh-Sounding:
dissonant
knell
lucid
ostensible
43. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
lament
recalcitrant
credulous
baleful
44. Smart/Learned
feigned
harrangue
canny
obviate
45. Insincere: insincerely lavish
cavil
fulsome
plaintive
insidious
46. Healthy
canard
fell
beneicent
salubrious
47. Luck: fortunate
recreant
detestation
providental
ciruitous
48. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
mordacious
Proselyte
consanguine
feigned
49. Copy: acting as a substitute
emulate
esurient
vicarious
defer
50. Innocent/ Inexperienced
naive
ludicrous
gibe
droll