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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. Predict
macabre
augur
mendacious/ mendacity
antipathy
2. Greedy:
aggrandize
dogmatic
synchrounous
avaricious
3. Nag: to urge
philanthropic
admonish
belabor
stoic
4. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
simper
undulating
placate
calmuny
5. Luck
fortuitous
rebuke
kismet
dissemble
6. Beginner/ Amateur
calmuny
libertine
dogmatic
Dilettante
7. Truth: sincere in speech
malice
discursive
candor/candid
depraved
8. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
acrimonious
contrition
calmuny
opaque
9. Timid/timidity
pusillanimous
deride/ derisive
gullible
aberrant
10. Truth
probity
rhetoric
excoriate
recreant
11. Falsehood: deception
chicanery
anachronism
Bolster
trenchant
12. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
perfidy
astute
meander
prognosticate
13. Not a straight line: turn to side
amulet
Countenance
labyrinth
awry
14. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
decry
Cursory
quintessence
Ancillary
15. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
vicarious
mendacious/ mendacity
munificent
nascent
16. Praise
Synopsis
extol
dogmatic
destitute
17. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
lambaste
sententious
waver
doctrinaire
18. Criticize/criticism: blame
curmudgeon
reprehend
auspicious
indigent
19. Overblown/ Wordy:
lucid
arcane
gaucherie
periphrastic
20. Falsehood
odium
apocryphal
torpid
forage
21. Healthy
penurious
bemusing
salubrious
carom
22. Hesitate: vacillate
abnegation
vindicate
dither
munificent
23. Forgive: to clear
altrustic
salutary
vindicate
asperity
24. Assist
esurient
rebuke
Countenance
phlegmatic
25. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
ingenuous
ciruitous
excoriate
perfidious
26. Predict: a favorable sign
enigmatic
minatory
providental
auspice
27. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
stultify
lament
prolix
adulterate
28. Insincere: insincerely lavish
impede
cirumlocution
peregrination
fulsome
29. Family: biologically ancestor
baleful
prescient
progenitor
vicarious
30. Dictorial: overbearing
antecede
credulous
harmonious
imperious
31. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
descry
iconoclast
calmuny
ribald
32. Stubborn: not able to appease
Inchoate
implacable
levity
knell
33. Copy: acting as a substitute
vicarious
Mainstay
bereave
peruse
34. Overblown/ Wordy
obloquy
verbose
gaucherie
adage
35. Wisdom: proverb
ameliorate
adage
undermine
philanthropic
36. Time/Duration/Order: going before in time
anterior
anachronism
Pique
fissure
37. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
din
periphrastic
Pique
obsitnate
38. Weaken: elminate
palliate
probity
salutary
obviate
39. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
enigmatic
itinerant
rent
noisome
40. Death/ Mourning: visible spirit
vacillate
consanguine
wraith
abnegation
41. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
Abet
oblique
volatile
aggrandize
42. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
reprobate
macabre
Compendium
dogmatic
43. Easy to understand: plain
anterior
courageous
fallacious
evident
44. Death/ Mourning: representing death
tendentious
assay
macabre
peripatetic
45. Assist- Very Generous
exonerate
ribald
portentous
Munificent
46. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
Novitiate
penurious
adventitious
raucous
47. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
truculent
remonstrate
fallacious
Precipiate
48. Carousal: corrupt
reprehend
depraved
millennium
optimum
49. Praise: any honor
libertine
insipid
accolade
gaucherie
50. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
prescient
opaque
accolade
incipient