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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. Pleasant-Sounding
unstinting
melodious
vexing
imperious
2. Funny
augur
apothegm
ludicrous
vindicate
3. Pacify/Satisfy
defer
Bolster
exhort
berate
4. Stubborn: not obedient
din
remonstrate
pettish
recalcitrant
5. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
Audacious
inveigh
stoic
lament
6. Nag: long speech
harrangue
equitable
pettish
appraise
7. Nag;
decry
rapacious
hector
lackadaisical
8. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
bemusing
simper
exacerbate
elegy
9. Death/ Mourning: dead body
fulsome
cadaver
slake
eon
10. Pleasant-Sounding
harmonious
accolade
erudite
dissemble
11. Forgive:
baleful
redress
lament
Advocate
12. Timid/timidity: tremor
specious
credulous
trepidation
anomalous
13. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
fissure
bereave
rift
awry
14. Sorrow: mournful
despotic
doleful
Bilious
rancor
15. Nag: stubbornly adheres to rules
martinet
abstruse
diffident
fawn
16. Beginner/ Amateur:
Proselyte
abrogate
mercurial
Bilious
17. Death/ Mourning: mournful
vituperation
dolorous
craven
sonorous
18. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
vacillate
odious
din
elegy
19. Terse: reserved in speech
taciturn
lambaste
discomfort
fortend
20. Harsh-Sounding:
moribound
exculpate
anathema
raucous
21. Falsehood: false story
Mordant
canard
rapacious
inimical
22. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
dither
mollify
Syllabus
putrid
23. Truth: candor
iconoclast
prognosticate
specious
frankness
24. Embarrass: to feel regret
Dudgeon
dauntless
quotidian
rue
25. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
noisome
pettish
garrulous
defile
26. Criticize/criticism: abusive language
retrograde
obloquy
adventitious
abeyance
27. Dictorial: complete obedience
Bilious
propitiate
meander
authoritarian
28. Biting (as in wit or temperament): caustic behavior
mordant
ersatz
acrimonious
forlorn
29. Copy: to imitate
mitigate
peripatetic
emulate
belittle
30. Hostile: bad temper
rhetoric
amulet
aggrandize
curmudgeon
31. Copy: predecessor
precursor
Querulous
gainsay
droll
32. Criticize/criticism: belitte
baneful
Stalwart
disparge
anachronism
33. Carousal: shameful
conjugal
turpitude
quotidian
discrete
34. Nag: repeatedly than necessary
aperture
belabor
temporal
hegemonic
35. Sorrow: gloomy state or mind
philanthropic
erroneous
melancholy
vindictive
36. Boring: without indistinctive
extol
insipid
irascible
conjugal
37. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
Asperity
fetid
distaff
axiom
38. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
ascetic
Syllabus
caustic
Callow
39. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
exonerate
orifice
Terse
loquacious
40. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
euphonious
specious
anachronism
orifice
41. Generous/Kind
Precipiate
enjoin
unstinting
sententious
42. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
rebarbative
decamp
defunct
renitent
43. Harmful:
deleterious
interregnum
loathing
counterpart
44. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
defamation
scathing
extol
ostensible
45. Beginning/Young: procreate
pusillanimous
Pique
Engender
mercurial
46. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
frankness
cryptic
mundane
perspicacious
47. Lazy/ Sluggish
torpid
truculent
aspersion
cirumlocution
48. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
carom
harrangue
idiosyncrasy
dissonant
49. Innocent/ Inexperienced: innocent
ingenuous
fell
duplicity
volatile
50. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
abstain
pellucid
diffidence
inert