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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. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
revile
peripatetic
Proselyte
beneficial
2. Praise
disingenuous
venerate
kismet
antecede
3. Falsehood: misleading
caustic
miserly
fallacious
adulterate
4. Praise: to solute
depraved
acidulous
acclaim
ribald
5. Time/Duration/Order
mercurial
temporal
Sustenance
renitent
6. Healthy
salubrious
pillory
perfidious
detestation
7. Gaps/Openings: small narrow space
interjustice
obloquy
limpid
noisome
8. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
vituperate
rebuke
strident
droll
9. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
quiescent
prognosticate
quintessence
acidulous
10. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
exonerate
fissure
dither
loquacious
11. Wandering: temporary stay
odious
sojourn
dogmatic
Impetuous
12. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
novitiate
indolent
abrogate
encumber
13. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
inscrutable
extol
evident
Stalwart
14. Forgive: free from guilt
respite
penultimate
vituperation
exculpate
15. Pacify/Satisfy
turgid
perspicacious
satiate
threnody
16. Luck
gaucherie
demur
fortuitous
encumber
17. Walking About
Dudgeon
Bilious
truculent
itinerant
18. Stubborn
paradigm
inimical
obsitnate
rebarbative
19. Gaps/Openings
asperity
inexorable
distaff
respite
20. Truth
sincere
acidulous
gibe
candor/candid
21. Criticize/criticism: berate sharply
rift
abstruse
objurgate
lucid
22. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
turgid
Asperity
malice
epoch
23. Nasty: stinking
decry
Wapish
fortend
fetid
24. Harsh-Sounding:
dissonant
waver
unstinting
slothful
25. Terse: reserved in speech
taciturn
opprobrium
grandiloquent
temporal
26. Hatred
loathing
guile
frankness
simulated
27. Insincere: conceal truth
excoriate
ameliorate
decamp
dissemble
28. Pacify/Satisfy
quiescent
authoritarian
sooth
rift
29. Harmful
Abridge
injurious
extol
emulate
30. Prevent/Obstruct
Umbrage
specious
fetter
extol
31. Sorrow; grief
cryptic
salubrious
dolor
belittle
32. Assist: State of being sustained
knell
acrimonious
Sustenance
Corroborate
33. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
calmuny
exhort
diurnal
anomalous
34. Carousal: corrupt
cadaver
martinet
equity
depraved
35. Praise: to praise highly
abash
meander
providental
eulogize
36. Boring: lacking in freshness
trite
dissonant
probity
Audacious
37. Family: a descendant
scion
fervid
banal
pettish
38. Changing quickly: erractic
Petulant
Audacious
capricious
remission
39. Sorrow: gloomily
impede
avaricious
defer
morose
40. Diffcult ot understand
erroneous
abstruse
unctuous
kismet
41. Prevent/Obstruct
undermine
discomfort
hinder
beneficial
42. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
injurious
equivocate
hiatus
scathing
43. Embarrass: awkwardness
cavil
Headlong
deride/ derisive
gaucherie
44. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
encomium
candor/candid
ludicrous
lament
45. Sorrow: funeral song
ostensible
threnody
craven
quintessence
46. Weaken
ribald
gyrate
undermine
volatile
47. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
anatagonism
impede
Mordant
vicarious
48. Pacify/Satisfy
defer
reprobate
exonerate
scathing
49. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
feigned
periphrastic
quotidian
vituperate
50. Insincere: pretended
exacerbate
ostensible
libidinous
vitriolic