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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. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
clement
renege
loquacious
laud/laudatory
2. Innocent/ Inexperienced: innocent
ingenuous
fortnight
distaff
discomfort
3. Timid/timidity: fearflu
anomaly
Dudgeon
prognosticate
timorous
4. Predict: a favorable sign
indisputable
ersatz
implacable
auspice
5. Changing quickly: erractic
capricious
odious
gibe
tantamount
6. Not a straight line: grooved edge
spurious
dither
equitable
serrated
7. Assist: Example Stalwart light house
abatement
tendentious
encomium
Stalwart
8. Time/Duration/Order: 1000 year
noisome
millennium
melodious
eon
9. Easy to understand: clear
lucid
discrete
scion
anathema
10. Hatred
millennium
rancor
turgid
frankness
11. Terse: brief
pithy
undulating
levity
recalcitrant
12. Walking About
peruse
mordacious
recondite
itinerant
13. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
obloquy
castigate
axiom
rhetoric
14. Greedy:
Mordant
avaricious
bereave
Espouse
15. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
prolix
Munificent
diffidence
dissipated
16. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement giving general view
mercenary
irascible
Synopsis
enmity
17. Pleasant-Sounding
diatribe
inexorable
mitigate
euphonious
18. Bold: extremely daring
macabre
Audacious
fortuitous
defamation
19. Luck
sordid
kismet
cadaver
fortuitous
20. Generous/Kind: compassionate
orifice
credulous
clement
sardonic
21. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scornful
penurious
sardonic
acquit
Inchoate
22. Gaps/Openings
ephemeral
untoward
turbid
interregnum
23. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
abstruse
gainsay
foible
remonstrate
24. Lazy/ Sluggish
slothful
droll
implacable
gullible
25. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
abstain
bemusing
epoch
admonish
26. Investigate: to find out definitely
peregrination
acrimonious
pernicious
ascertain
27. Nag: long speech
melodious
harrangue
scathing
berate
28. Praise: honor
defile
Synopsis
authoritarian
aggrandize
29. Time/Duration/Order; indefinetly lon period of time
vexing
eon
abortive
diatribe
30. Terse: brief
erroneous
carom
canny
curt
31. Hostile
rue
disconsolate
slothful
antithetic
32. Carousal: full of sexual act
dauntless
libidinous
novitiate
aphorism
33. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
Inchoate
irascible
disingenuous
melodious
34. Boring:dull remark
platitude
succinct
synchrounous
articulate
35. Easy to understand: plain
Precipiate
impecunious
remonstrate
evident
36. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
gyrate
Neophyte
orifice
depraved
37. Pleasant-Sounding
Countenance
fealty
melodious
guile
38. Diffcult ot understand:
ambiguous
mercurial
obviate
expatiate
39. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
ardor/ ardent
enigmatic
harrangue
disconsolate
40. Nag: to urge
admonish
vituperate
interjustice
altrustic
41. Wisdom
interjustice
sordid
aphorism
Proselyte
42. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
chagrin
Abet
odious
churlish
43. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
munificent
perfidious
Querulous
bemusing
44. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
anomaly
opaque
temperate
mollify
45. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
aberrant
iconoclast
revile
slake
46. Criticize/criticism: blame
reprehend
implacable
fervid
Mainstay
47. Unusual
Abrupt
iconoclast
facsimile
defunct
48. Falsehood: misleading
recalcitrant
taciturn
idiosyncrasy
fallacious
49. Hostile: bad temper
Burgeoning
timorous
curmudgeon
limpid
50. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
Asperity
malevolent
recidivism
knell