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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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1. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
platitude
baleful
churlish
abeyance
2. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
vituperate
destitute
churlish
diurnal
3. Copy: acting as a substitute
vicarious
ingenuous
discursive
vacillate
4. Death/ Mourning: death
demise
bombastic
cavil
nascent
5. Nag: repeatedly than necessary
belabor
compunction
occlued
stoic
6. Denying of self: extreme denial
ascetic
obsequies
lambaste
recalcitrant
7. Innocent/ Inexperienced
Petulant
pedestrian
abhorrence
naive
8. Prevent/Obstruct
clement
epoch
inhibit
Burgeoning
9. Pleasant-Sounding
vexing
melodious
sincere
Abrupt
10. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
cryptic
perfidious
teeter
defamation
11. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
occlued
insipid
obsequies
apocryphal
12. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
abortive
ambulatory
antithetic
abrogate
13. Nag;
droll
distaff
hector
auspicious
14. Hatred
apocryphal
loathing
palliate
bacchanlian
15. Poor
dauntless
compunction
trite
destitute
16. Dictorial: overbearing
propitiate
imperious
banal
impecunious
17. Pleasant-Sounding
aphorism
euphonious
Dilettante
ersatz
18. Easy to understand
peregrination
compendious
penurious
eloquent
19. Time/Duration/Order: lasting a short time
anomaly
ephemeral
obloquy
cirumlocution
20. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
abstain
cadaver
propitiate
obsitnate
21. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
bereave
esoteric
aspersion
fawn
22. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
knell
vitiate
forlorn
remission
23. Boring: lacking in freshness
trite
raucous
orifice
odious
24. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
elegy
dissemble
antedate
anterior
25. Greedy:
idiosyncrasy
scathing
canny
avaricious
26. Funny: a humor riducule
abhorrence
miserly
raillery
ambiguous
27. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
indolent
specious
verbose
aspersion
28. Nag: prescribe with authority
diffident
hector
calmuny
enjoin
29. Terse: using few words
rebarbative
laconic
denounce
strident
30. Assist: perosn that support a cause
extol
licentious
disparge
Proponet
31. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
endogamous
fulsome
acrimonious
vacillate
32. Assist
Countenance
archaic
fortuitous
lethargic
33. Eccentric/ dissimilar: made of different source
Callow
Dilettante
fealty
eclectic
34. Diffcult ot understand:
grandiloquent
dither
recondite
Burgeoning
35. Nag: to plead
vindictive
Ancillary
sincere
remonstrate
36. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
lackadaisical
pernicious
Terse
melodious
37. Not a straight line: round about
undulating
Headlong
mercurial
ciruitous
38. Greedy: bribery
venal
redress
waver
gibe
39. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
iconoclast
fell
dauntless
salacious
40. Funny
levity
belabor
Compendium
counterpart
41. Carousal: full of sexual act
zealot
vexing
sojourn
libidinous
42. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
placate
dogmatic
pernicious
sepulchral
43. Boring: without indistinctive
auspice
dogmatic
anachronism
insipid
44. Stubborn: resistant
destitute
exacerbate
carom
renitent
45. Gaps/Openings: narrow opening
specious
expatiate
Apace
fissure
46. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
despotic
prolix
periphrastic
teeter
47. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
melancholy
fallacious
distaff
synchrounous
48. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
progenitor
Petulant
magnanimous
kismet
49. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
castigate
berate
rancor
Burgeoning
50. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
defamation
vacillate
ambiguous
sepulchral