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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. Weaken: increase severity
exacerbate
obloquy
quotidian
obscure
2. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
abstain
aberration
palliate
reprehend
3. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
fell
prescient
Espouse
bombastic
4. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
turpitude
eon
abash
disconsolate
5. Copy: predecessor
truculent
flippant
precursor
progenitor
6. Hatred: opposite force
anomaly
exacerbate
spurious
anatagonism
7. Bold: extremely daring
pernicious
abash
Audacious
dither
8. Truth
aberration
defunct
probity
abnegation
9. Easy to understand: clear
aggrandize
cogent
frankness
lackadaisical
10. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
putrid
synchrounous
verity
recidivism
11. Boring: without indistinctive
insipid
acerbic
destitute
prevaricate
12. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
Tyro
contrition
progenitor
ameliorate
13. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
euphonious
lambaste
undulating
enmity
14. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
undulating
decry
consanguine
raillery
15. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
beneficial
vexing
grandiloquent
pernicious
16. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
disingenuous
forlorn
peregrination
compendious
17. Stubborn: uncomprimising
talisman
iconoclast
pithy
intransigent
18. Falsehood
apocryphal
Syllabus
castigate
Abrupt
19. Sorrow
talisman
eloquent
vituperate
plaintive
20. Bad Mood: Snappish
bereave
acclaim
Callow
Wapish
21. Falsehood: deception
venerate
chicanery
vitiate
Bilious
22. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
assuage
rhetoric
vituperation
demise
23. Investigate: to estimate value
eon
turpitude
irascible
appraise
24. Gaps/Openings
lull
fortnight
exonerate
truculent
25. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
trenchant
recant
knell
cryptic
26. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
imperious
redress
obsitnate
orifice
27. Assist: perosn that support a cause
Proponet
adulterate
orifice
incipient
28. Copy: Model
paradigm
harmonious
ludicrous
pithy
29. Stubborn: not able to appease
implacable
inimical
mercurial
droll
30. Praise
careen
Corroborate
trite
venerate
31. Predict: indicative
portentous
prescient
Abrupt
disconsolate
32. Death/ Mourning: representing death
irascible
munificent
anatagonism
macabre
33. Forgive: relieve from crime
garrulous
demur
phlegmatic
acquit
34. Family: marriage within a social tribe
antecede
abeyance
undermine
endogamous
35. Weaken
stultify
dissonant
anachronism
belabor
36. Nag: find fault with uncertainty
retrograde
cavil
esoteric
discursive
37. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
exacerbate
respite
turgid
frankness
38. Lazy/ Sluggish
rent
quiescent
mundane
philanthropic
39. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
feigned
ostensible
Advocate
peripatetic
40. Hostile: bad temper
taciturn
curmudgeon
ludicrous
orifice
41. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
deride/ derisive
arcane
undulating
Mordant
42. Lazy/ Sluggish
mendacious/ mendacity
cavil
conjugal
slothful
43. Abbreviated Communication
Compendium
insipid
eclectic
sidle
44. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
mordant
opaque
inscrutable
prognosticate
45. Denying of self:
pedestrian
stoic
inimical
adulterate
46. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
noisome
hiatus
sententious
canard
47. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
counterpart
decry
Impetuous
Fledgling
48. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
gainsay
chagrin
debauchery
sooth
49. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
rent
lambaste
rancor
portentous
50. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
dissipated
Advocate
anachronism
acidulous