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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. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
noxious
lament
esoteric
Advocate
2. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
equivocate
detestation
largess
elegy
3. Wisdom
knell
disingenuous
sonorous
epigram
4. Copy: acting as a substitute
impecunious
vicarious
aberration
fawn
5. Sorrow
plaintive
lull
objurgate
chagrin
6. Death/ Mourning: representing death
rapacious
melodious
macabre
esurient
7. Changing quickly: changeable
volatile
beneficial
forlorn
labyrinth
8. Stubborn: not able to appease
implacable
renitent
Headlong
antedate
9. Not a straight line: to go around
circumvent
levity
synchrounous
cavil
10. Nag: repeatedly than necessary
lethargic
assuage
belabor
macabre
11. Prevent/Obstruct
harrangue
Fledgling
diffidence
fortend
12. Criticize/criticism: mock
vituperation
deride/ derisive
truism
fallacious
13. Weaken
largess
Tyro
debauchery
inhibit
14. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
partisan
duplicity
perfidy
serrated
15. Sorrow
naive
lugubrious
diurnal
sidle
16. Greedy:
fetid
archaic
avaricious
anachronism
17. Disgusting/Offensive:
noisome
Wapish
noxious
rhetoric
18. Hatred
indisputable
lucid
loathing
libertine
19. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
miserly
implacable
abrogate
assuage
20. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
elegy
despotic
gainsay
Synopsis
21. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
rue
cirumlocution
pellucid
Dudgeon
22. Weaken: increase severity
Pique
pusillanimous
exacerbate
acquit
23. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
inveigh
dissemble
expiate
contrition
24. Forgive: make amends
expiate
disconsolate
noisome
aggrandize
25. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
sepulchral
lambaste
grandiloquent
Countenance
26. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scathing
vitriolic
misanthropic
dauntless
demise
27. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
zealot
retrograde
penultimate
optimum
28. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
peruse
Cursory
bemusing
laud/laudatory
29. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
zealot
partisan
reprehend
Tyro
30. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
perspicacious
truculent
wraith
anachronism
31. Gaps/Openings:
indubitable
acrimonious
asperity
aperture
32. Death/ Mourning: death
articulate
demise
factitious
churlish
33. Dictorial: imperious
prescient
peremptory
rue
fratricide
34. Generous/Kind: kindness
beneicent
largess
simulated
occlued
35. Weaken
enervate
taciturn
anterior
inimical
36. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
palliate
libertine
facsimile
simper
37. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
erudite
canny
reprobate
ersatz
38. Hostile: cruel
optimum
trepidation
truculent
Callow
39. Gaps/Openings: narrow opening
recidivism
fratricide
absolve
fissure
40. Funny:
jocular
Abet
facetious
mendacious/ mendacity
41. Overblown/ Wordy:
unctuous
bombastic
euphonious
reprove
42. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
sonorous
disconsolate
turpitude
ambulatory
43. Predict
hinder
augur
temperate
anatagonism
44. Praise: formal expression of high praise
dour
beneicent
encomium
portentous
45. Denying of self:
decry
stoic
rent
craven
46. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scornful
sardonic
licentious
clement
lament
47. Falsehood: misleading
insipid
knell
portentous
fallacious
48. Pacify/Satisfy
rue
turgid
satiate
philanthropic
49. Nasty
renege
inhibit
detestation
noxious
50. Smart/Learned
articulate
melodious
Compendium
canny