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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. Embarrass: quality of being different
detestation
turpitude
diffidence
propitiate
2. Pleasant-Sounding
euphonious
quintessence
sententious
gainsay
3. Nag: prescribe with authority
enjoin
lugubrious
equity
minatory
4. Changing quickly: changeable
equity
imperious
mercurial
Neophyte
5. Terse: brief
eloquent
turbid
curt
lull
6. Carousal:filthy
sordid
vitriolic
Neophyte
platitude
7. Truth
indisputable
recreant
fealty
veracious
8. Weaken: increase severity
exacerbate
flippant
truculent
ingenuous
9. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
curt
encomium
calmuny
nascent
10. Pleasant-Sounding
Mainstay
iconoclast
sonorous
cirumlocution
11. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
compunction
decamp
discursive
gainsay
12. Healthy
noisome
beneficial
peremptory
beneicent
13. Insincere: conceal truth
dissemble
fervid
turbid
tyrannical
14. Diffcult ot understand: obscure
arcane
depraved
simulated
impugn
15. Investigate: to estimate value
sooth
appraise
defer
frankness
16. Unusual: perculiar manner
sepulchral
covetous
idiosyncrasy
descry
17. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
askance
endogamous
reprove
altrustic
18. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
gainsay
prevaricate
intractable
asperity
19. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
undulating
belittle
castigate
disingenuous
20. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
belabor
ameliorate
anterior
inimical
21. Not a straight line: move sideways
Neophyte
rescind
berate
sidle
22. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
labyrinth
laud/laudatory
reprehend
remonstrate
23. Boring: foolish
dissemble
fatuous
rhetoric
Petulant
24. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
Bilious
abstruse
magnanimous
portentous
25. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
perspicacious
putrid
lethargic
Precipiate
26. Falsehood: decieve
simper
duplicity
askance
vicarious
27. Funny
threnody
riposte
waver
eclectic
28. Truth: sincere in speech
gibe
candor/candid
abnegation
demur
29. Stubborn
askance
imperious
mercenary
obsitnate
30. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
accolade
labyrinth
apocryphal
disconsolate
31. Changing quickly: erractic
libertine
capricious
conjugal
vindicate
32. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
odium
platitude
fortend
dour
33. Beginning/Young: procreate
berate
bromide
Engender
Mainstay
34. Harmful:
flippant
progenitor
deleterious
dissonant
35. Truth: speaking the truth
awry
antithetic
Curtail
veracious
36. Poor: lacking food
baleful
contrition
indigent
labyrinth
37. Pacify/Satisfy
redress
sooth
verbose
accolade
38. Embarrass: ashamed
opaque
abash
authoritarian
strident
39. Terse: brief
inimical
cogent
pithy
intransigent
40. Praise: any honor
martinet
accolade
Terse
dour
41. Gaps/Openings: small narrow space
inscrutable
objurgate
harrangue
interjustice
42. Nag: long speech
harrangue
ersatz
Syllabus
sinuous
43. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
Pique
serrated
facsimile
minatory
44. Withdrawal/Retreat; temporary decrease
aspersion
remission
enmity
wraith
45. Timid/timidity
vicarious
vituperate
pusillanimous
sardonic
46. Hatred: habitual dislike
antipathy
licentious
peruse
perspicacious
47. Criticize/criticism
reprove
anomaly
exonerate
obviate
48. Overblown/ Wordy:
fissure
acclaim
periphrastic
fortuitous
49. Terse: concise
sonorous
unstinting
rancor
compendious
50. Generous/Kind: kindness
beneicent
anachronism
sordid
untoward