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SAT Word Groups
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement giving general view
depraved
abash
Synopsis
dictum
2. Dictorial: opinionated
renitent
portentous
dogmatic
excoriate
3. Forgive: free from guilt
berate
prosaic
obviate
exonerate
4. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
appease
inert
excoriate
vitriolic
5. Lazy/ Sluggish
epoch
contrition
lethargic
acerbic
6. Death/ Mourning: near death
reprove
perfidy
endogamous
moribound
7. Generous/Kind: compassionate
adulterate
clement
redress
temporal
8. Sorrow
vitiate
lament
defamation
pillory
9. Stubborn
ersatz
obdurate
progenitor
admonish
10. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
lament
quotidian
rift
assuage
11. Carousal
Querulous
doleful
acclaim
bacchanlian
12. Boring: to make common by frequent use
demur
lugubrious
hackneyed
ascetic
13. Praise: to solute
acclaim
remonstrate
extol
dither
14. Stubborn: improper
remonstrate
untoward
vindicate
bemusing
15. Changing quickly: erractic
iconoclast
capricious
vituperation
opprobrium
16. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
riposte
excoriate
spurious
obviate
17. Overblown/ Wordy
verbose
excoriate
pedestrian
Apace
18. Sorrow: funeral song
threnody
capricious
aphorism
curmudgeon
19. Predict; fated to die
chagrin
compendious
bromide
fey
20. Family: biologically ancestor
Advocate
doctrinaire
precursor
progenitor
21. Embarrass: ashamed
abash
undulating
irascible
meander
22. Easy to understand: clear
fulsome
waver
lucid
lament
23. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
slake
partisan
anatagonism
excoriate
24. Assist
Espouse
arcane
banal
nascent
25. Investigate: to detect
millennium
prevaricate
descry
acidulous
26. Assist-A person or thing that acts as chief support
harrangue
propitiate
turgid
Mainstay
27. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
retrograde
Tyro
ardor/ ardent
partisan
28. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
discursive
precursor
invidious
belittle
29. Time/Duration/Order
temperate
diffidence
excoriate
temporal
30. Hatred: extreme repugnance
elegiac
bombastic
abhorrence
capricious
31. Innocent/ Inexperienced: beginner in learning anything
circumvent
tyro
anachronism
ameliorate
32. Assist
inexorable
rhetoric
distaff
Bolster
33. Favoring/ Not impartial: enthusiam
rebuke
reprehend
ascetic
fervid
34. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
absolve
tendentious
defamation
aberration
35. Generous/Kind: kindness
prescient
eon
beneicent
exhort
36. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
verbose
impede
scathing
inveigh
37. Praise
fawn
undulating
reprobate
abatement
38. Falsehood: treachery
perfidy
orifice
mendacious/ mendacity
millennium
39. Hesitate: vacillate
progenitor
dither
assay
gullible
40. Nasty
anomalous
Impetuous
noxious
acquit
41. Greedy
timorous
baleful
miserly
temporal
42. Denying of self: extreme denial
Mainstay
axiom
renege
ascetic
43. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement of main point
Syllabus
licentious
invidious
belabor
44. Pacify/Satisfy
satiate
obsitnate
abjure
ingenuous
45. Nag: to plead
excoriate
disparge
remonstrate
inimical
46. Funny: lacking in seriouness
unstinting
flippant
discursive
esoteric
47. Criticize/criticism: to scold
obdurate
spurious
ingenuous
berate
48. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
droll
gullible
lament
despotic
49. Not a straight line: intricate path to exit
labyrinth
arcane
partisan
laud/laudatory
50. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
canard
nascent
denounce
compendious