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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. Easy to understand:
auspice
expatiate
articulate
moribound
2. Walking About
askance
hiatus
peripatetic
gullible
3. Death/ Mourning: near death
authoritarian
simulated
compendious
moribound
4. Family: having same ancestry
consanguine
Corroborate
disingenuous
Engender
5. Gaps/Openings
interregnum
gyrate
cacophony
redress
6. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
acquit
intractable
destitute
aberrant
7. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
accolade
turbid
sooth
calmuny
8. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
hinder
perspicacious
interjustice
rift
9. Bold: Brave
grandiloquent
sententious
lament
courageous
10. Luck: fortunate
malice
hackneyed
dauntless
providental
11. Wisdom
obloquy
Munificent
pusillanimous
aphorism
12. Abbreviated Communication
Compendium
beneficial
bereave
articulate
13. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
lambaste
diffident
obsequies
acerbic
14. Generous/Kind:
articulate
largess
salutary
obviate
15. Luck: something by chance
gibe
talisman
pedestrian
adventitious
16. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
obscure
mitigate
Cursory
discursive
17. Criticize/criticism: abuse
pillory
acrimonious
endogamous
hiatus
18. Predict: indicative
portentous
synchrounous
harrangue
misanthropic
19. Investigate: to estimate value
eclectic
undulating
appraise
prognosticate
20. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): violent condemnation
ersatz
vituperation
mercenary
macabre
21. Truth
foible
rebuke
indisputable
iconoclast
22. Investigate: examine in detail
peruse
opaque
obscure
candor/candid
23. Diffcult ot understand:
recondite
putrid
diatribe
lament
24. Boring:dull remark
Dilettante
palliate
gibe
platitude
25. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
temporal
discomfort
acrimonious
portentous
26. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
perfidy
rent
Querulous
lethargic
27. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
peripatetic
injurious
quiescent
antedate
28. Funny: to taunt; deride
oblique
gibe
Advocate
verity
29. Pleasant-Sounding
demise
harmonious
lugubrious
implacable
30. Truth: speaking the truth
Querulous
abjure
veracious
inhibit
31. Harmful
teeter
insidious
fetter
Abridge
32. Harmful: treacherous
exhort
dither
auspice
perfidious
33. Copy: duplication
counterpart
cacophony
millennium
peremptory
34. Nag: rebuke
reproof
Neophyte
abeyance
rapacious
35. Beginning/Young: procreate
demur
tirade
antedate
Engender
36. Changing quickly: changeable
novitiate
volatile
appraise
mercurial
37. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
sidle
euphonious
Curtail
imperious
38. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scornful
contrition
vindictive
caustic
sardonic
39. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
doleful
turpitude
depraved
garrulous
40. Assist
lambaste
Ancillary
Umbrage
pillory
41. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement giving general view
obsitnate
platitude
Synopsis
lugubrious
42. Boring: lacking in freshness
anachronism
cirumlocution
spartan
trite
43. Withdrawal/Retreat: give up
renitent
abnegation
Proponet
vindictive
44. Funny: a humor riducule
raillery
odious
perspicacious
itinerant
45. Beginner/ Amateur:
defile
elegiac
avaricious
Proselyte
46. Forgive: make amends
fortend
vicarious
expiate
harmonious
47. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
penultimate
peregrination
miserly
fealty
48. Weaken
adventitious
licentious
adulterate
deleterious
49. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
fortend
ambulatory
doleful
Inchoate
50. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
timorous
sententious
din
disconsolate