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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. Boring: common/ banal
objurgate
acquit
mundane
fawn
2. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
altrustic
serrated
endogamous
prognosticate
3. Copy: exact copy
facsimile
expiate
ludicrous
progenitor
4. Easy to understand:
perspicacious
auspice
debauchery
articulate
5. Pleasant-Sounding
ardor/ ardent
melodious
loquacious
admonish
6. Insincere: pretended
fetid
Bilious
ostensible
antithetic
7. Dictorial: predominance
hegemonic
elegiac
fervid
equitable
8. Predict: indicative
axiom
inhibit
portentous
rift
9. Harmful: treacherous
cavil
Cursory
perfidious
inert
10. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
rebarbative
Bolster
Advocate
mitigate
11. Sorrow
lugubrious
ostensible
dolorous
riposte
12. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
facsimile
mercenary
rhetoric
ameliorate
13. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
magnanimous
trepidation
inert
respite
14. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
undulating
Audacious
pillory
objurgate
15. Not a straight line: side glance
askance
renege
consanguine
aberrant
16. Hostile
elegy
Abridge
Corroborate
antithetic
17. Criticize/criticism: blame
reprehend
dolor
abeyance
augur
18. Criticize/criticism: berate sharply
sinuous
acrimonious
erudite
objurgate
19. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
archaic
obsequies
serrated
epoch
20. Wisdom
pillory
dictum
aberration
venerate
21. Weaken: elminate
magnanimous
acclaim
discursive
obviate
22. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
zealot
anatagonism
clement
sincere
23. Truth
ribald
indisputable
doleful
mordant
24. Death/ Mourning: bell made for a funeral
amulet
prolix
hackneyed
knell
25. Timid/timidity
temperate
recreant
aberration
propitiate
26. Beginner/ Amateur
Dilettante
talisman
Bilious
irascible
27. Lazy/ Sluggish
fratricide
lethargic
doleful
perfidy
28. Overblown/ Wordy
Compendium
loathing
torpid
verbose
29. Gaps/Openings: small narrow space
emulate
invidious
Synopsis
interjustice
30. Funny
levity
pernicious
elegiac
discursive
31. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
obscure
stoic
rift
cacophony
32. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
factitious
inscrutable
candor/candid
sooth
33. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
fell
fetid
sepulchral
Terse
34. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
defile
penultimate
counterpart
obviate
35. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
anomalous
Bilious
Neophyte
retrograde
36. Investigate: to estimate value
compendious
appraise
novitiate
esoteric
37. Criticize/criticism: mock
craven
deride/ derisive
aphorism
epigram
38. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
curmudgeon
undermine
odium
credulous
39. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
rift
taciturn
dissipated
foible
40. Funny
acrimonious
ludicrous
Proselyte
macabre
41. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
retrograde
fell
stultify
lethargic
42. Death/ Mourning: near death
moribound
diatribe
serrated
exacerbate
43. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
pernicious
lament
compunction
libidinous
44. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
dictum
abjure
Callow
teeter
45. Pacify/Satisfy
dauntless
slake
insipid
Compendium
46. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
inveigh
platitude
Cursory
miserly
47. Prevent/Obstruct
factitious
inhibit
Abridge
platitude
48. Dictorial: imperious
peremptory
fortuitous
recant
objurgate
49. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
prolix
peregrination
peripatetic
fell
50. Withdrawal/Retreat
distaff
abortive
churlish
prolix