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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. Time/Duration/Order: going before in time
mercurial
anterior
duplicity
auspicious
2. Not a straight line: rotartory movement
vortex
insipid
ribald
Headlong
3. Luck: something by chance
adventitious
accolade
oscillate
pusillanimous
4. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
truism
dolorous
perfidy
retrograde
5. Prevent/Obstruct
temporal
philanthropic
inhibit
abatement
6. Bad Mood: Anger
levity
ingenuous
intractable
Dudgeon
7. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
revile
absolve
truculent
mordant
8. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
grandiloquent
munificent
chicanery
spartan
9. Family: marriage
indigent
conjugal
Novitiate
lull
10. Hatred
equitable
detestation
slake
encomium
11. Denying of self: self restrained
rhetoric
detestation
temperate
invidious
12. Generous/Kind:
lucid
recant
assuage
largess
13. Assist- Very Generous
rescind
compendious
Munificent
torpid
14. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
malevolent
insipid
Pique
paradigm
15. Criticize/criticism: berate sharply
opprobrium
apocryphal
objurgate
anomalous
16. Praise: to solute
bombastic
spurious
acclaim
vexing
17. Harmful
lament
scathing
anathema
pernicious
18. Timid/timidity: tremor
trepidation
inimical
dauntless
curmudgeon
19. Death/ Mourning: representing death
appraise
inhibit
macabre
rapacious
20. Hatred
obviate
vicarious
salutary
phlegmatic
21. Eccentric/ dissimilar: separate
discrete
Neophyte
Syllabus
peremptory
22. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
peremptory
acidulous
asperity
flippant
23. Greedy
recreant
gullible
covetous
assuage
24. Bad Mood: Annoyance
pillory
equivocate
Terse
Umbrage
25. Time/Duration/Order: marked by characteristic of earlier period
archaic
specious
abeyance
rescind
26. Withdrawal/Retreat: repeat
ameliorate
rescind
Abrupt
dogmatic
27. Generous/Kind
mordacious
unstinting
defamation
magnanimous
28. Boring: lacking in freshness
recant
ostensible
trite
enervate
29. Boring: dull
prosaic
hiatus
talisman
fatuous
30. Praise
Callow
extol
abnegate
Wapish
31. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
cirumlocution
spurious
sepulchral
defamation
32. Carousal: sexually unrestrainted
Engender
licentious
Mainstay
scion
33. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
adulterate
partisan
tyro
fell
34. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
strident
iconoclast
irascible
anomalous
35. Pacify/Satisfy
undulating
defer
harmonious
Proselyte
36. Stubborn: to annoy
abrogate
elegiac
apothegm
vexing
37. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
magnanimous
renege
hector
reprove
38. Hatred
enmity
eclectic
decamp
novitiate
39. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
miserly
conjugal
Callow
esoteric
40. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
discrete
orifice
imperious
descry
41. Funny: waggish
ersatz
jocular
opaque
inveigh
42. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
baleful
defile
abnegate
expatiate
43. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
Fledgling
lethargic
ameliorate
limpid
44. Harmful
inimical
Tyro
factitious
sinuous
45. Truth: cannot be doubted
extol
indubitable
frankness
sooth
46. Wandering
impugn
admonish
expatiate
Tyro
47. Carousal: corrupt
depraved
belabor
demise
verity
48. Carousal: shameful
sepulchral
facetious
turpitude
belabor
49. Disgusting/Offensive:
ostensible
defamation
noisome
spartan
50. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
Engender
stultify
discursive
revile