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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Overblown/ Wordy
verbose
covetous
extol
anatagonism
2. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
nascent
indolent
diatribe
factitious
3. Diffcult ot understand: understood by a selected few
dissipated
esoteric
mollify
eloquent
4. Harmful
sepulchral
inimical
rebuke
ardor/ ardent
5. Funny: a humor riducule
rhetoric
raillery
temporal
prosaic
6. Falsehood: misleading
interjustice
fallacious
zealot
philanthropic
7. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
peripatetic
irascible
anomalous
baleful
8. Greedy:
indisputable
bemusing
avaricious
doleful
9. Greedy
meander
riposte
covetous
iniquity
10. Easy to understand
truculent
eloquent
minatory
frankness
11. Generous/Kind
unstinting
occlued
Sustenance
novitiate
12. Diffcult ot understand
baneful
abstruse
Proselyte
limpid
13. Copy: likness
simulated
truculent
deride/ derisive
chagrin
14. Boring: usual
quotidian
Petulant
strident
flippant
15. Generous/Kind
abstruse
Abridge
philanthropic
discomfort
16. Embarrass: slight flaw
foible
endogamous
fetid
renitent
17. Wandering
exculpate
Asperity
curmudgeon
expatiate
18. Copy: predecessor
apocryphal
munificent
precursor
undulating
19. Greedy: acting merely for money
munificent
occlued
appraise
mercenary
20. Time/Duration/Order: error in chronology in which event assign to wrong date
penultimate
anachronism
vituperate
discomfort
21. Wisdom: instructive saying
prosaic
truculent
apothegm
factitious
22. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
disparge
teeter
astute
aspersion
23. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
apothegm
rent
noisome
oblique
24. Luck: something by chance
esoteric
demise
adventitious
intransigent
25. Pacify/Satisfy
euphonious
appease
interregnum
torpid
26. Praise: any honor
accolade
altrustic
fallacious
apocryphal
27. Withdrawal/Retreat
encomium
recidivism
gainsay
abnegation
28. Sorrow; grief
dolor
ambiguous
disparge
slake
29. Carousal: wicked
castigate
extol
iniquity
articulate
30. Poor: hungry greedy
Mordant
esurient
noxious
fervid
31. Not a straight line: to go around
obdurate
circumvent
pernicious
acclaim
32. Embarrass
Novitiate
simper
expiate
slothful
33. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
ciruitous
diffident
intransigent
garrulous
34. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
Syllabus
sooth
knell
libertine
35. Sorrow
torpid
fortend
simper
lugubrious
36. Pleasant-Sounding
beneficial
doctrinaire
caustic
harmonious
37. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful/ give offense
invidious
fervid
curt
extol
38. Terse: using few words
oblique
Proselyte
antedate
laconic
39. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
Precipiate
forage
melancholy
serrated
40. Bad Mood: Cranky
cacophony
trenchant
Bilious
baleful
41. Luck: fortunate
impecunious
bromide
lethargic
providental
42. Carousal: shameful
turpitude
abeyance
cacophony
Novitiate
43. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
veracious
trenchant
abnegate
putrid
44. Funny
aperture
fortuitous
spartan
ludicrous
45. Embarrass: humiliation
chagrin
minatory
descry
insipid
46. Wisdom
truism
undermine
expiate
Cursory
47. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
recondite
endogamous
altrustic
tirade
48. Carousal:filthy
sordid
interjustice
abjure
waver
49. Family: a descendant
fallacious
scion
astute
anomaly
50. Greedy
iconoclast
miserly
prolix
gaucherie