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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. Family: having same ancestry
Countenance
Syllabus
hiatus
consanguine
2. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
demise
Callow
limpid
rebarbative
3. Criticize/criticism
reprove
raillery
baleful
volatile
4. Pleasant-Sounding
melodious
quiescent
turpitude
curmudgeon
5. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
remonstrate
trepidation
cadaver
spurious
6. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
sooth
acrimonious
canny
plaintive
7. Terse: brief
duplicity
Querulous
curt
Mordant
8. Hostile
assuage
Dudgeon
antithetic
macabre
9. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
asperity
Headlong
obviate
10. Criticize/criticism: abuse
abash
pillory
verity
factitious
11. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
platitude
euphonious
antedate
platitude
12. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
temperate
craven
Terse
undulating
13. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
Munificent
undulating
anomalous
abhorrence
14. Copy: predecessor
esurient
cadaver
precursor
scathing
15. Greedy: extremely stingy
astute
dissemble
anachronism
penurious
16. Harmful
injurious
rhetoric
noxious
novitiate
17. Time/Duration/Order: 2 weeks
facsimile
odium
fortnight
libertine
18. Carousal: shameful
turpitude
misanthropic
dour
foible
19. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
expiate
abstain
optimum
inveigh
20. Overblown/ Wordy:
truculent
bombastic
torpid
eon
21. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
pillory
hackneyed
providental
malice
22. Boring: without indistinctive
Engender
propitiate
insipid
laud/laudatory
23. Nasty
craven
Audacious
macabre
noisome
24. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
knell
fetid
fortend
reprobate
25. Stubborn: to annoy
decamp
auspicious
fissure
vexing
26. Weaken: increase severity
pellucid
enigmatic
prevaricate
exacerbate
27. Gaps/Openings: narrow opening
salubrious
Advocate
Cursory
fissure
28. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
ambiguous
bemusing
vituperate
specious
29. Withdrawal/Retreat; temporary decrease
vexing
remission
decamp
encumber
30. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
paradigm
fratricide
vituperation
inveigh
31. Sorrow
assuage
Advocate
penultimate
lament
32. Harsh-Sounding:
debauchery
dissonant
consanguine
temperate
33. Unusual
mitigate
scathing
iconoclast
ingenuous
34. Assist- Support by argument
indigent
fratricide
talisman
Advocate
35. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
turpitude
peruse
diatribe
salacious
36. Truth: cannot be doubted
caustic
indubitable
verbose
enjoin
37. Stubborn: unalterable
quintessence
Mordant
circumvent
inexorable
38. Not a straight line: to go around
prescient
Neophyte
circumvent
flippant
39. Hesitate: to show doubt
truism
waver
prolix
Abet
40. Boring: common/ banal
cavil
mundane
peremptory
aphorism
41. Stubborn
obsitnate
irascible
enervate
nascent
42. Wisdom: instructive saying
consanguine
apothegm
demur
volatile
43. Falsehood: deception
rhetoric
chicanery
adulterate
obdurate
44. Falsehood: crafty deception
guile
Headlong
excoriate
enmity
45. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
Engender
despotic
gullible
intransigent
46. Lazy/ Sluggish
enigmatic
fulsome
quiescent
munificent
47. Hatred: intense dislike
cadaver
odium
Compendium
assay
48. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
itinerant
Pique
compunction
aspersion
49. Withdrawal/Retreat
circumvent
sooth
lethargic
abortive
50. Dictorial: overbearing
articulate
imperious
compendious
Cursory