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SAT Word Groups
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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. Falsehood; incorrect
erroneous
augur
facetious
peremptory
2. Prevent/Obstruct
cogent
penultimate
indisputable
encumber
3. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
prescient
enjoin
peremptory
anomalous
4. Truth: sincere in speech
inexorable
providental
candor/candid
acclaim
5. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
adulterate
hiatus
gullible
nascent
6. Greedy:
fetid
avaricious
anterior
admonish
7. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
loquacious
baneful
serrated
consanguine
8. Beginner/ Amateur: A beginner or novice
irascible
orifice
Neophyte
abrogate
9. Assist: Example Stalwart light house
mordacious
Stalwart
iniquity
hiatus
10. Family: person who kill his or her brother
expiate
despotic
fratricide
Abet
11. Hesitate: to show doubt
vitriolic
indolent
vitiate
waver
12. Hostile: boorish; rude
chicanery
churlish
antipathy
excoriate
13. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
mundane
Neophyte
synchrounous
bereave
14. Falsehood: misleading
denounce
fallacious
enigmatic
spurious
15. Overblown/ Wordy:
morose
venal
bombastic
canny
16. Hatred: loathed
recidivism
dissipated
unctuous
anathema
17. Prevent/Obstruct
sojourn
carom
impede
hackneyed
18. Pacify/Satisfy
phlegmatic
defer
turbid
credulous
19. Weaken
apothegm
abhorrence
knell
adulterate
20. Nag: to urge
sinuous
exhort
epigram
portentous
21. Poor: lacking food
portentous
denounce
prognosticate
indigent
22. Time/Duration/Order
temporal
Audacious
obsequies
decry
23. Wandering: passing aimlessly
lament
fortuitous
discursive
lackadaisical
24. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
accolade
sincere
ardor/ ardent
melancholy
25. Denying of self: extreme denial
doctrinaire
ascetic
Burgeoning
banal
26. Denying of self:
enervate
spartan
sojourn
Precipiate
27. Terse: brief
lucid
mercurial
simulated
pithy
28. Nasty: stinking
progenitor
canard
mordacious
fetid
29. Falsehood
dauntless
reprehend
spurious
magnanimous
30. Terse: using few words
chicanery
recalcitrant
laconic
defile
31. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
Inchoate
esoteric
elegiac
Cursory
32. Stubborn: uncomprimising
intransigent
Novitiate
mordacious
epigram
33. Copy: predecessor
abjure
precursor
auspicious
chortle
34. Timid/timidity: tremor
oscillate
trepidation
eclectic
zealot
35. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
baleful
raucous
perspicacious
Terse
36. Pleasant-Sounding
baleful
euphonious
salutary
ingenuous
37. Pacify/Satisfy
chicanery
slake
melancholy
impede
38. Easy to understand: plain
acerbic
sincere
awry
evident
39. Weaken
enervate
fulsome
calmuny
decamp
40. Poor: hungry greedy
demise
diurnal
esurient
abrogate
41. Not a straight line: move sideways
gaucherie
idiosyncrasy
sidle
Espouse
42. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
abstain
turpitude
slothful
Headlong
43. Harmful: treacherous
prescient
destitute
credulous
perfidious
44. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
inert
astute
cavil
beneicent
45. Assist
Mainstay
conjugal
emulate
Espouse
46. Wisdom
lull
redress
truism
Neophyte
47. Sorrow: funeral song
axiom
threnody
temporal
descry
48. Time/Duration/Order; indefinetly lon period of time
vituperate
eon
disconsolate
consanguine
49. Criticize/criticism: belitte
beneficial
disparge
Dudgeon
fey
50. Gaps/Openings:
aperture
millennium
Audacious
naive