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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. Assist: State of being sustained
deleterious
harrangue
Sustenance
zealot
2. Not a straight line: round about
ciruitous
orifice
excoriate
defunct
3. Praise: formal expression of high praise
quiescent
pusillanimous
encomium
dolor
4. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
malice
unstinting
encomium
acidulous
5. Falsehood
spurious
deleterious
nascent
churlish
6. Generous/Kind: compassionate
grandiloquent
clement
enigmatic
revile
7. Embarrass: ashamed
penultimate
enmity
abash
defamation
8. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
mendacious/ mendacity
diffidence
inveigh
banal
9. Death/ Mourning: representing death
macabre
obdurate
disparge
plaintive
10. Truth
recalcitrant
waver
sincere
bacchanlian
11. Terse
enmity
scion
succinct
diffidence
12. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
revile
epoch
endogamous
disconsolate
13. Dictorial: tyrant
tyro
indubitable
tyrannical
defer
14. Bad Mood: Snappish
exacerbate
prolix
platitude
Wapish
15. Weaken
periphrastic
rescind
enervate
interregnum
16. Stubborn
peremptory
obdurate
ameliorate
defile
17. Criticize/criticism: vehement speech
licentious
tirade
flippant
elegiac
18. Hatred
obsitnate
millennium
salutary
meander
19. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
recondite
Callow
gibe
forlorn
20. Copy: to imitate
emulate
Audacious
interjustice
iconoclast
21. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
esoteric
cadaver
garrulous
venerate
22. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
portentous
cadaver
anomalous
rescind
23. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
acerbic
fetter
Bilious
cryptic
24. Falsehood: speak falsely
Synopsis
prevaricate
admonish
assay
25. Hatred: loathed
anathema
diffident
Cursory
raillery
26. Easy to understand
kismet
detestation
placate
eloquent
27. Timid/timidity: tremor
insipid
perfidious
discomfort
trepidation
28. Death/ Mourning: funeral ceremony
Inchoate
obsequies
decamp
gainsay
29. Assist
auspice
injurious
frankness
Ancillary
30. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
raucous
Pique
providental
hector
31. Withdrawal/Retreat
enjoin
miserly
recidivism
sardonic
32. Predict
peruse
chicanery
prescient
dictum
33. Gaps/Openings: narrow opening
abash
baleful
abnegate
fissure
34. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
vituperation
platitude
Proselyte
garrulous
35. Nag: to plead
remonstrate
Countenance
encomium
fratricide
36. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
carom
Abridge
specious
anachronism
37. Forgive: free from guilt
bemusing
absolve
fetid
Headlong
38. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
progenitor
abjure
fatuous
enigmatic
39. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
recalcitrant
platitude
anomaly
sooth
40. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
aberration
periphrastic
dour
peremptory
41. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
odium
fervid
erudite
quintessence
42. Not a straight line: side glance
noxious
aperture
askance
berate
43. Changing quickly: changeable
mercurial
tantamount
abstruse
indolent
44. Terse: concise
bromide
strident
filial
compendious
45. Boring:dull remark
salutary
platitude
auspice
wraith
46. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
moribound
licentious
decamp
lament
47. Weaken: elminate
obviate
hegemonic
vindicate
fissure
48. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
sojourn
diatribe
inhibit
odious
49. Forgive:
remonstrate
equivocate
redress
decry
50. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
doctrinaire
fatuous
Inchoate
insipid