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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: appease/ concillated
curmudgeon
propitiate
pillory
baneful
2. Carousal: excessive indulgence
debauchery
progenitor
exonerate
abjure
3. Luck: fortunate
providental
irascible
dissipated
aberration
4. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
ribald
discomfort
diurnal
libidinous
5. Investigate: to find out definitely
ascertain
opaque
ciruitous
gaucherie
6. Falsehood: crafty deception
guile
debauchery
Proponet
labyrinth
7. Hatred
implacable
recidivism
enmity
rent
8. Truth: candor
frankness
Pique
pedestrian
elegy
9. Lazy/ Sluggish:
dissipated
sinuous
lackadaisical
respite
10. Prevent/Obstruct
recondite
fetter
eclectic
defunct
11. Timid/timidity: tremor
impede
mercurial
trepidation
libidinous
12. Terse: reserved in speech
taciturn
enjoin
slake
fell
13. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
specious
mordacious
covetous
renege
14. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
ameliorate
Synopsis
acrimonious
prolix
15. Equal: fair
inhibit
enjoin
equity
periphrastic
16. Wandering: temporary stay
bromide
sojourn
absolve
intractable
17. Praise
unstinting
defunct
capricious
venerate
18. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
Asperity
anomalous
fealty
Precipiate
19. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
nascent
pellucid
asperity
noxious
20. Timid/timidity: fearflu
Callow
appraise
raucous
timorous
21. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
Novitiate
disconsolate
putrid
apocryphal
22. Overblown/ Wordy
salacious
verbose
dissemble
mollify
23. Criticize/criticism: mock
foible
excoriate
hiatus
deride/ derisive
24. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
naive
iconoclast
caustic
meander
25. Family: marriage
volatile
dolorous
conjugal
opaque
26. Stubborn: not able to appease
turpitude
implacable
fealty
ribald
27. Nasty: stinking
rent
adventitious
ersatz
fetid
28. Walking About
distaff
expatiate
laconic
peripatetic
29. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
succinct
lament
acerbic
quotidian
30. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
deleterious
expiate
acrimonious
31. Family: person who kill his or her brother
counterpart
destitute
fratricide
astute
32. Wisdom
fortuitous
beneficial
decry
dictum
33. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
bombastic
defile
credulous
absolve
34. Innocent/ Inexperienced: beginner in learning anything
gainsay
abhorrence
tyro
impede
35. Assist: State of being sustained
Sustenance
gullible
remission
deleterious
36. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
acclaim
sordid
discursive
Abridge
37. Bold:fearless
ersatz
optimum
dauntless
inexorable
38. Copy: likness
simulated
pillory
truculent
deride/ derisive
39. Weaken
oblique
Petulant
circumvent
vitiate
40. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
succinct
Wapish
fervid
nascent
41. Luck: presenting in favorable condition
irascible
loathing
awry
propitiate
42. Generous/Kind
hackneyed
unstinting
apothegm
calmuny
43. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
recalcitrant
contrition
awry
denounce
44. Investigate: to estimate value
appraise
recant
iconoclast
fortend
45. Death/ Mourning: mournful
dolorous
accolade
Ancillary
temporal
46. Forgive: free from guilt
exculpate
erroneous
inscrutable
auspice
47. Falsehood
spurious
apothegm
redress
intractable
48. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
rhetoric
orifice
gibe
ascertain
49. Withdrawal/Retreat
discomfort
harmonious
minatory
recidivism
50. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
distaff
noisome
irascible
vituperate