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SAT Word Groups
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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: retract
indigent
abjure
sordid
iniquity
2. Wisdom
bacchanlian
miserly
Proselyte
platitude
3. Death/ Mourning: visible spirit
hiatus
Countenance
wraith
acquit
4. Wisdom: instructive saying
acclaim
apothegm
insidious
fealty
5. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
placate
dissipated
enervate
doleful
6. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
discursive
Asperity
appease
prescient
7. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): brutally harsh
fervid
truculent
Countenance
meander
8. Sorrow: funeral song
mordacious
threnody
ersatz
facetious
9. Falsehood: tellind lies
evident
mendacious/ mendacity
succinct
rebarbative
10. Assist
Countenance
malevolent
dictum
excoriate
11. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
rift
peripatetic
rebarbative
discrete
12. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
miserly
defile
dither
decamp
13. Terse: using few words
decamp
laconic
odium
noxious
14. Easy to understand:
esoteric
archaic
inveigh
articulate
15. Predict
spartan
inert
Curtail
prognosticate
16. Family: person who kill his or her brother
sidle
decry
fratricide
acrimonious
17. Predict
abortive
prescient
frankness
indigent
18. Forgive: free from guilt
beneicent
exonerate
raucous
licentious
19. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
cirumlocution
iniquity
frankness
Sustenance
20. Embarrass: slight flaw
tirade
licentious
foible
ascetic
21. Death/ Mourning: bell made for a funeral
threnody
mercenary
archaic
knell
22. Stubborn: unalterable
ephemeral
adage
expiate
inexorable
23. Insincere: conceal truth
dissemble
inhibit
riposte
peripatetic
24. Wisdom
Countenance
Mordant
sententious
guile
25. Assist: Example Stalwart light house
Stalwart
diffident
opaque
Pique
26. Easy to understand: plain
evident
riposte
diatribe
extol
27. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
labyrinth
licentious
despotic
pithy
28. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
Cursory
limpid
obviate
vicarious
29. Predict: indicative
fervid
platitude
noisome
portentous
30. Stubborn: to annoy
vexing
sojourn
Sustenance
ambulatory
31. Harsh-Sounding:
excoriate
raucous
invidious
aggrandize
32. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
castigate
strident
fey
defunct
33. Harmful
apothegm
injurious
trite
jocular
34. Falsehood; incorrect
erroneous
mollify
denounce
Dilettante
35. Terse: reserved in speech
taciturn
caustic
acrimonious
knell
36. Prevent/Obstruct
adventitious
odium
discomfort
exculpate
37. Harsh-Sounding
sojourn
carom
cacophony
dissipated
38. Stubborn
Syllabus
retrograde
canard
obsitnate
39. Insincere: pretended
dissemble
ostensible
expiate
vituperate
40. Investigate: to detect
descry
encumber
idiosyncrasy
antecede
41. Nag: prescribe with authority
enjoin
stoic
malevolent
nascent
42. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
sardonic
esoteric
reprobate
antithetic
43. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
defile
mollify
slake
diurnal
44. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
Dilettante
providental
Syllabus
rebarbative
45. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
acidulous
satiate
odium
expiate
46. Not a straight line: round about
ciruitous
aberrant
impecunious
strident
47. Dictorial: complete obedience
authoritarian
absolve
duplicity
recalcitrant
48. Hatred
raucous
lackadaisical
salutary
gyrate
49. Boring:dull remark
tyro
cryptic
noisome
platitude
50. Harmful: deadly
expiate
obscure
baneful
intransigent