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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. Poor
vacillate
portentous
prolix
destitute
2. Wisdom: proverb
tantamount
expiate
counterpart
adage
3. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement giving general view
bromide
Synopsis
opaque
hinder
4. Truth: speaking the truth
harrangue
libertine
veracious
orifice
5. Not a straight line: rotartory movement
vortex
perspicacious
dogmatic
occlued
6. Weaken
satiate
inhibit
occlued
irascible
7. Family: biologically ancestor
diffident
sepulchral
disingenuous
progenitor
8. Harmful:
verity
hackneyed
deleterious
Audacious
9. Funny: a silly smile
simper
hiatus
salutary
harrangue
10. Pacify/Satisfy
esoteric
satiate
counterpart
lucid
11. Wisdom: trite saying
gyrate
Terse
Proponet
bromide
12. Terse: concise
ameliorate
compendious
mordant
dither
13. Sorrow; grief
dolor
levity
Bilious
munificent
14. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
reprehend
augur
chicanery
defamation
15. Harsh-Sounding:
labyrinth
axiom
dissonant
opaque
16. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
ciruitous
abjure
articulate
mollify
17. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
inhibit
recreant
circumvent
melancholy
18. Assist: perosn that support a cause
Proponet
redress
injurious
Stalwart
19. Denying of self:
spartan
vacillate
aperture
vindicate
20. Wandering: passing aimlessly
turbid
Fledgling
discursive
denounce
21. Eccentric/ dissimilar: made of different source
rescind
doctrinaire
eclectic
libidinous
22. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
altrustic
sepulchral
eulogize
nascent
23. Stubborn
portentous
obsitnate
pernicious
fratricide
24. Family:
banal
truism
distaff
antecede
25. Forgive:
noisome
absolve
redress
epoch
26. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
circumvent
garrulous
Inchoate
largess
27. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
assay
teeter
acidulous
synchrounous
28. Not a straight line: to go around
salutary
circumvent
vicarious
antecede
29. Diffcult ot understand:
undermine
Syllabus
recondite
perspicacious
30. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
ameliorate
churlish
compunction
Syllabus
31. Changing quickly: erractic
capricious
gaucherie
propitiate
equity
32. Praise: formal expression of high praise
encomium
foible
augur
extol
33. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
jocular
idiosyncrasy
reprove
malevolent
34. Copy: predecessor
specious
precursor
truculent
deride/ derisive
35. Harmful
facsimile
intractable
turbid
inimical
36. Sorrow: mournful
pernicious
quiescent
antecede
doleful
37. Truth: candor
rift
truculent
frankness
prolix
38. Luck: desirable
strident
dissemble
optimum
Compendium
39. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
Pique
curmudgeon
chagrin
Bolster
40. Equal:
Dilettante
tantamount
mitigate
undermine
41. Truth
ostensible
remonstrate
opaque
sincere
42. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
abnegate
defer
phlegmatic
penultimate
43. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
raillery
raucous
denounce
misanthropic
44. Overblown/ Wordy:
curmudgeon
abnegation
bombastic
articulate
45. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
anatagonism
Compendium
dolorous
trenchant
46. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
belittle
minatory
equitable
diffidence
47. Investigate: to estimate value
deleterious
truculent
eclectic
appraise
48. Greedy: extremely stingy
sardonic
penurious
ascertain
demur
49. Assist: State of being sustained
esoteric
itinerant
Sustenance
chortle
50. Boring: dull
hector
Umbrage
pillory
prosaic