Kaplan Word Groups

Question 1

abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse

Answer 1

abbreviated communication

Question 2

abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate

Answer 2

act quickly

Question 3

abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance

Answer 3

assist

Question 4

bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish

Answer 4

bad mood

Question 5

dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro

Answer 5

beginner/amateur

Question 6

burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent

Answer 6

beginning/young

Question 7

acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant

Answer 7

biting (as in wit or temperament)

Question 8

audacious, courageous, dauntless

Answer 8

bold

Question 9

banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite

Answer 9

boring

Question 10

bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude

Answer 10

carousal

Question 11

capricious, mercurial, volatile

Answer 11

changing quickly

Question 12

counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulate, vicarious

Answer 12

copy

Question 13

aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defame, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate

Answer 13

criticize/ criticism

Question 14

bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith

Answer 14

death, mourning

Question 15

abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate

Answer 15

denying of self

Question 16

authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical

Answer 16

dictatorial

Question 17

abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid

Answer 17

difficult to understand

Question 18

defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative

Answer 18

disgusting/offensive

Question 19

articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid

Answer 19

easy to understand

Question 20

aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast

Answer 20

eccentric/dissimilar

Question 21

abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue

Answer 21

embarrass

Question 22

equitable, equity, tantamount

Answer 22

equal

Question 23

apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious

Answer 23

falsehood

Question 24

conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion

Answer 24

family

Question 25

ardent/ardor, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot

Answer 25

favoring/not impartial

Question 26

absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate

Answer 26

forgive/make amends

Question 27

chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper

Answer 27

funny

Question 28

abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift

Answer 28

gaps/openings

Question 29

altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting

Answer 29

generous/kind

Question 30

avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal

Answer 30

greedy

Question 31

asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation

Answer 31

hard-hearted

Question 32

baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious

Answer 32

harmful

Question 33

cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident

Answer 33

harsh-sounding

Question 34

abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor

Answer 34

hatred

Question 35

beneficial, salubrious, salutary

Answer 35

healthy

Question 36

dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver

Answer 36

hesitate

Question 37

antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive

Answer 37

hostile

Question 38

credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro

Answer 38

innocent/inexperienced

Question 39

disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous

Answer 39

insincere

Question 40

appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse

Answer 40

investigate

Question 41

indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid

Answer 41

lazy/sluggish

Question 42

adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, serendipity, talisman

Answer 42

luck

Question 43

admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof

Answer 43

nag

Question 44

fetid, noisome, noxious

Answer 44

nasty

Question 45

askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex

Answer 45

not a straight line

Question 46

bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose

Answer 46

overblown/wordy

Question 47

ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe

Answer 47

pacify, satisfy

Question 48

euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous

Answer 48

pleasant-sounding

Question 49

destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent

Answer 49

poor

Question 50

acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate

Answer 50

praise

Question 51

augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate

Answer 51

predict

Question 52

discomfit, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude

Answer 52

prevent/obstruct

Question 53

astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious

Answer 53

smart/learned

Question 54

disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody

Answer 54

sorrow

Question 55

implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing

Answer 55

stubborn

Question 56

compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn

Answer 56

terse

Question 57

anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal

Answer 57

time/order/duration

Question 58

craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation

Answer 58

timid/timidity

Question 59

candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity

Answer 59

truth

Question 60

aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy

Answer 60

unusual

Question 61

ambulatory, itinerant, meander, peripatetic

Answer 61

walking about

Question 62

discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn

Answer 62

wandering

Question 63

adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate

Answer 63

weaken

Question 64

adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism

Answer 64

wisdom

Question 65

abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrogade

Answer 65

withdrawal/retreat