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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
esoteric
philanthropic
inhibit
laconic
2. Hatred: loathed
eloquent
fallacious
anathema
Tyro
3. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
Burgeoning
fratricide
fallacious
antedate
4. Generous/Kind: kindness
beneicent
vituperation
fetid
fetter
5. Luck: desirable
compunction
equivocate
veracious
optimum
6. Embarrass: slight flaw
peremptory
trenchant
foible
Fledgling
7. Criticize/criticism: mock
Querulous
placate
augur
deride/ derisive
8. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
Cursory
slake
dissipated
mitigate
9. Luck: presenting in favorable condition
acclaim
propitiate
asperity
calmuny
10. Truth: cannot be doubted
dissemble
cirumlocution
interregnum
indubitable
11. Gaps/Openings
Precipiate
fetid
propitiate
respite
12. Falsehood: false story
canard
abash
timorous
naive
13. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
anachronism
aperture
prolix
naive
14. Carousal: vulgar speech
Mainstay
demur
ribald
bereave
15. Assist- Support by argument
scathing
Advocate
putrid
fetid
16. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
pernicious
scathing
obviate
itinerant
17. Wisdom
antedate
beneficial
sententious
succinct
18. Biting (as in wit or temperament): harness of temper
authoritarian
ascertain
Asperity
philanthropic
19. Sorrow: funeral song
hector
salutary
redress
threnody
20. Pacify/Satisfy
adage
salubrious
discursive
appease
21. Nag;
hector
pillory
diffident
appraise
22. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
equivocate
excoriate
archaic
truculent
23. Time/Duration/Order
sepulchral
diffident
temporal
interregnum
24. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
verity
diurnal
sonorous
magnanimous
25. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
iconoclast
cogent
penurious
propitiate
26. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
rebuke
fell
deride/ derisive
raillery
27. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
spurious
dolorous
reprobate
synchrounous
28. Copy: likness
iconoclast
vindictive
paradigm
simulated
29. Funny
riposte
gaucherie
tantamount
caustic
30. Greedy:
Advocate
avaricious
indisputable
iconoclast
31. Diffcult ot understand:
intractable
dissonant
lambaste
ambiguous
32. Praise
fawn
waver
millennium
ascertain
33. Weaken
bereave
vitiate
truculent
mundane
34. Terse: brief
tirade
pithy
assay
dissonant
35. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
Callow
obsequies
fissure
berate
36. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
Inchoate
torpid
disparge
tyro
37. Hostile: revengeful spirit
vindictive
careen
adventitious
appraise
38. Copy: predecessor
carom
dauntless
capricious
precursor
39. Innocent/ Inexperienced: beginner in learning anything
propitiate
denounce
ingenuous
tyro
40. Lazy/ Sluggish
indolent
abatement
phlegmatic
Cursory
41. Hesitate: wobble
teeter
epoch
encomium
dissemble
42. Criticize/criticism: to scold
obdurate
berate
prevaricate
fell
43. Dictorial: tyrant
tyrannical
cadaver
belabor
Mainstay
44. Not a straight line: turn to side
incipient
zealot
awry
fissure
45. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
expatiate
obsitnate
vituperate
occlued
46. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
abash
abrogate
cryptic
defer
47. Prevent/Obstruct
salutary
encumber
sordid
enigmatic
48. Predict: a favorable sign
auspice
doleful
compendious
rebarbative
49. Easy to understand: clear
labyrinth
pellucid
mordant
fetter
50. Sorrow: gloomily
iconoclast
morose
intransigent
erroneous