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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. Timid/timidity: fearflu
timorous
specious
licentious
probity
2. Harmful
inimical
gyrate
abnegate
augur
3. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
melancholy
discrete
prolix
erudite
4. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
gibe
filial
acidulous
Dudgeon
5. Pacify/Satisfy
trenchant
assuage
abrogate
extol
6. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
ludicrous
untoward
hinder
castigate
7. Prevent/Obstruct
occlued
grandiloquent
ersatz
arcane
8. Praise: to praise highly
eulogize
fealty
banal
laconic
9. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
decry
melancholy
palliate
lucid
10. Insincere: moralistic fervor
fissure
adulterate
aberrant
unctuous
11. Falsehood: treachery
perfidy
trite
Proponet
lackadaisical
12. Dictorial: opinionated
dogmatic
churlish
novitiate
appease
13. Assist
obsequies
torpid
Countenance
mundane
14. Pacify/Satisfy
noisome
slake
askance
ribald
15. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
inscrutable
belabor
deride/ derisive
Umbrage
16. Terse: reserved in speech
obloquy
prescient
taciturn
recant
17. Criticize/criticism: shameful
appease
guile
prosaic
opprobrium
18. Easy to understand: clear
Apace
peregrination
pellucid
erudite
19. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
Inchoate
baleful
insipid
eon
20. Carousal:filthy
sordid
Novitiate
melodious
consanguine
21. Harsh-Sounding:
reproof
ciruitous
dissonant
feigned
22. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
philanthropic
intransigent
acerbic
iconoclast
23. Greedy: inordinately greedy
anathema
invidious
rapacious
abjure
24. Investigate: to find out definitely
ascertain
interjustice
facetious
recant
25. Carousal: excessive indulgence
dour
debauchery
slake
hector
26. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
diffident
obsitnate
augur
tyro
27. Embarrass: awkwardness
talisman
aberrant
appease
gaucherie
28. Praise
pedestrian
extol
aperture
misanthropic
29. Harsh-Sounding
cacophony
idiosyncrasy
nascent
cirumlocution
30. Predict
antedate
inhibit
augur
harrangue
31. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
admonish
salacious
Abridge
trite
32. Diffcult ot understand
penurious
din
obscure
mundane
33. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
penultimate
talisman
nascent
facetious
34. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
mollify
axiom
careen
exonerate
35. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
vacillate
Stalwart
discursive
raucous
36. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
defamation
dictum
remonstrate
craven
37. Carousal: shameful
scion
turpitude
defunct
interjustice
38. Assist-A person or thing that acts as chief support
decamp
Mainstay
lackadaisical
mitigate
39. Gaps/Openings:
pusillanimous
aperture
encumber
dolorous
40. Praise: any honor
accolade
scion
anterior
stoic
41. Pleasant-Sounding
laconic
sonorous
discrete
esurient
42. Hatred: intense dislike
droll
odium
covetous
diffidence
43. Predict: indicative
novitiate
portentous
partisan
tyro
44. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful/ give offense
trite
beneficial
invidious
abnegate
45. Changing quickly: changeable
fatuous
occlued
indolent
mercurial
46. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
trepidation
diurnal
enjoin
equivocate
47. Lazy/ Sluggish
expiate
phlegmatic
largess
beneficial
48. Hatred: loathed
anathema
inveigh
antithetic
indigent
49. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
cacophony
Apace
din
sinuous
50. Predict: a favorable sign
tantamount
archaic
auspice
gullible