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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: harsh abusive language
vituperate
temperate
levity
placate
2. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
ersatz
frankness
abrogate
din
3. Carousal: wicked
iniquity
recidivism
defunct
fetid
4. Overblown/ Wordy: bombastic
turgid
Burgeoning
obdurate
morose
5. Insincere: conceal truth
anterior
dissemble
slothful
assay
6. Sorrow
noisome
elegiac
plaintive
Abridge
7. Prevent/Obstruct
dolorous
careen
banal
discomfort
8. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
undulating
eloquent
enmity
augur
9. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
loathing
platitude
odious
prolix
10. Generous/Kind:
gainsay
mordant
munificent
Abridge
11. Pleasant-Sounding
euphonious
facsimile
mollify
recondite
12. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
vindictive
lull
mendacious/ mendacity
axiom
13. Copy: acting as a substitute
contrition
objurgate
absolve
vicarious
14. Greedy: bribery
venal
tantamount
volatile
propitiate
15. Criticize/criticism: vehement speech
ambulatory
tirade
dour
baleful
16. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
Asperity
fetter
aperture
talisman
17. Wisdom
mercenary
rebuke
probity
platitude
18. Disgusting/Offensive:
noisome
descry
bacchanlian
torpid
19. Funny: lacking in seriouness
encumber
cirumlocution
vexing
flippant
20. Boring: dull
exhort
pedestrian
philanthropic
absolve
21. Boring: lacking in freshness
cirumlocution
trite
cavil
hegemonic
22. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
ludicrous
auspice
labyrinth
encumber
23. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
retrograde
sidle
bemusing
hinder
24. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
orifice
riposte
exacerbate
oblique
25. Act quickly
Abrupt
altrustic
enjoin
abhorrence
26. Wisdom
sententious
undulating
aberration
interregnum
27. Dictorial: predominance
peripatetic
cirumlocution
objurgate
hegemonic
28. Act quickly
philanthropic
acidulous
progenitor
Apace
29. Falsehood: false story
limpid
venal
canard
gibe
30. Carousal: shameful
candor/candid
turpitude
evident
discrete
31. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): brutally harsh
diatribe
truculent
intractable
volatile
32. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
Proselyte
equivocate
sepulchral
idiosyncrasy
33. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
revile
impede
guile
garrulous
34. Weaken: increase severity
exacerbate
prolix
wraith
irascible
35. Harsh-Sounding
deleterious
riposte
auspice
cacophony
36. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
antipathy
renitent
sidle
impugn
37. Predict: indicative
portentous
penultimate
Syllabus
laconic
38. Assist
mercurial
inscrutable
plaintive
Bolster
39. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
lament
portentous
archaic
morose
40. Harmful:
deleterious
perfidious
covetous
salutary
41. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
peripatetic
recondite
Cursory
ameliorate
42. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
careen
optimum
antedate
archaic
43. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
lament
indubitable
occlued
Headlong
44. Death/ Mourning: death
munificent
spartan
demise
bombastic
45. Falsehood: speak falsely
endogamous
prevaricate
reprehend
mollify
46. Death/ Mourning: bell made for a funeral
trite
knell
acerbic
esoteric
47. Denying of self:
demise
Sustenance
stoic
salacious
48. Healthy
bombastic
salubrious
abnegate
compunction
49. Criticize/criticism: berate sharply
simper
careen
objurgate
doleful
50. Insincere: lacking sincerity
inveigh
turpitude
adulterate
disingenuous