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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
mendacious/ mendacity
diatribe
sonorous
Abet
2. Harmful:
deleterious
lucid
fetid
abstain
3. Carousal: excessive indulgence
exacerbate
equivocate
destitute
debauchery
4. Time/Duration/Order: to go before
rapacious
anatagonism
partisan
antecede
5. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
flippant
careen
inhibit
cogent
6. Nasty
lambaste
putrid
unctuous
noxious
7. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
anomalous
elegy
bromide
ludicrous
8. Hostile: bad temper
augur
philanthropic
curmudgeon
timorous
9. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
remonstrate
malevolent
prosaic
recreant
10. Embarrass: ashamed
Engender
ameliorate
indisputable
abash
11. Poor: having no money
anomaly
turbid
impecunious
anachronism
12. Denying of self: extreme denial
salubrious
ascetic
precursor
Neophyte
13. Boring: usual
quotidian
conjugal
temporal
Callow
14. Prevent/Obstruct
epigram
undermine
admonish
discomfort
15. Luck: amulet
verbose
talisman
fetter
slothful
16. Copy: not natural
factitious
elegy
Wapish
sardonic
17. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
compunction
curmudgeon
antecede
obsitnate
18. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
anatagonism
decamp
fortend
temporal
19. Harsh-Sounding:
dissonant
placate
eulogize
invidious
20. Truth
probity
esoteric
raillery
asperity
21. Bold: extremely daring
rescind
oblique
providental
Audacious
22. Truth: speaking the truth
Pique
veracious
volatile
Asperity
23. Weaken: elminate
esoteric
progenitor
obviate
Petulant
24. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
decry
munificent
retrograde
exhort
25. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
apocryphal
reprobate
rapacious
Umbrage
26. Family: having same ancestry
indolent
satiate
invidious
consanguine
27. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
ambulatory
articulate
redress
labyrinth
28. Forgive: to clear
discursive
taciturn
vindicate
philanthropic
29. Praise
penurious
Proponet
venerate
diffidence
30. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
anomalous
Advocate
laconic
disparge
31. Hatred: habitual dislike
antipathy
platitude
putrid
forlorn
32. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
bromide
remonstrate
insidious
forlorn
33. Prevent/Obstruct
impecunious
Wapish
occlued
abatement
34. Family:
distaff
vituperation
novitiate
Umbrage
35. Assist
Ancillary
verbose
tyrannical
inhibit
36. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
distaff
enervate
foible
antedate
37. Dictorial: complete obedience
authoritarian
scion
abatement
rue
38. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
scathing
Abrupt
aberration
ciruitous
39. Withdrawal/Retreat
vitriolic
Compendium
recidivism
putrid
40. Nasty: stinking
fetid
canard
admonish
descry
41. Luck: desirable
canard
fetid
dissipated
optimum
42. Praise: any honor
placate
accolade
churlish
truism
43. Wisdom: trite saying
lucid
Stalwart
bromide
turbid
44. Praise: to praise highly
Headlong
perfidious
eulogize
antithetic
45. Terse: reserved in speech
Curtail
anathema
disconsolate
taciturn
46. Falsehood: tellind lies
aggrandize
forlorn
mendacious/ mendacity
sojourn
47. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
undulating
nascent
oscillate
trenchant
48. Truth: candor
frankness
trenchant
anatagonism
lambaste
49. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): violent condemnation
vituperation
fatuous
levity
abortive
50. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
bereave
penultimate
vituperation
propitiate