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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. Nag: rebuke
harmonious
reproof
sojourn
ascetic
2. Withdrawal/Retreat; temporary decrease
prolix
tantamount
remission
beneficial
3. Funny
noisome
riposte
deleterious
fratricide
4. Diffcult ot understand:
ambiguous
mollify
expatiate
dolor
5. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
altrustic
inhibit
Headlong
bromide
6. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
Espouse
oblique
gyrate
salacious
7. Hatred
aberration
detestation
melodious
simper
8. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
redress
loathing
lament
cavil
9. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
dictum
Petulant
impecunious
acerbic
10. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
rebuke
largess
pedestrian
careen
11. Insincere: conceal truth
eulogize
trenchant
castigate
dissemble
12. Copy: not natural
epoch
consanguine
rescind
factitious
13. Investigate: examine in detail
diatribe
impugn
fallacious
peruse
14. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
Curtail
laconic
spartan
articulate
15. Forgive: to clear
churlish
macabre
despotic
vindicate
16. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
arcane
occlued
Abridge
exonerate
17. Sorrow
plaintive
Audacious
quiescent
libidinous
18. Nag: find fault with uncertainty
Callow
demise
awry
cavil
19. Family:
vexing
distaff
flippant
reproof
20. Prevent/Obstruct
Fledgling
pedestrian
impede
grandiloquent
21. Wisdom
impecunious
obscure
platitude
lucid
22. Nag: to urge
ardor/ ardent
Corroborate
exhort
dour
23. Truth: sincere in speech
untoward
altrustic
candor/candid
verity
24. Death/ Mourning: dead/ not operating
vindicate
caustic
fetid
defunct
25. Harsh-Sounding
idiosyncrasy
cacophony
Bilious
Synopsis
26. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
chortle
factitious
venerate
mordant
27. Innocent/ Inexperienced: innocent
Terse
loquacious
ingenuous
obsitnate
28. Praise
ersatz
laud/laudatory
progenitor
assuage
29. Luck: fortunate
salacious
elegy
sordid
providental
30. Luck: desirable
dissemble
curt
optimum
abstain
31. Hesitate: to show doubt
lucid
renege
waver
lament
32. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
auspicious
intractable
ardor/ ardent
morose
33. Dictorial: tyrant
libidinous
askance
tyrannical
recalcitrant
34. Not a straight line: side glance
antipathy
askance
rent
malevolent
35. Harmful:
dauntless
obsitnate
deleterious
fetter
36. Funny
disparge
absolve
levity
flippant
37. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
succinct
clement
opprobrium
Mordant
38. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
portentous
odium
Cursory
phlegmatic
39. Pleasant-Sounding
lull
counterpart
eloquent
sonorous
40. Criticize/criticism: belitte
melancholy
Petulant
disparge
millennium
41. Family: marriage
conjugal
ephemeral
interregnum
gibe
42. Harmful
dictum
injurious
disparge
martinet
43. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
diffident
ambiguous
equitable
iconoclast
44. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): brutally harsh
fulsome
truculent
Dilettante
revile
45. Hesitate: wobble
teeter
Abet
Bilious
perfidious
46. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
appraise
filial
fell
bromide
47. Praise: to praise highly
rift
eulogize
specious
remission
48. Bad Mood: peevish
garrulous
compendious
probity
pettish
49. Predict; fated to die
eloquent
acerbic
reprove
fey
50. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
verity
acidulous
axiom
propitiate