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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. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
peruse
bemusing
diatribe
melancholy
2. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
minatory
truculent
antedate
accolade
3. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
portentous
reprove
laud/laudatory
4. Insincere: pretended
accolade
ostensible
doleful
mundane
5. Truth: faithfulness
fealty
expatiate
astute
abnegation
6. Boring: dull
exonerate
recidivism
palliate
prosaic
7. Stubborn: resistant
renitent
prognosticate
oblique
dolorous
8. Changing quickly: erractic
capricious
prevaricate
Curtail
rhetoric
9. Walking About
indolent
askance
bombastic
itinerant
10. Hatred
detestation
erroneous
abatement
perfidious
11. Timid/timidity: fearflu
fulsome
stultify
exculpate
timorous
12. Not a straight line: move sideways
sidle
iconoclast
impecunious
contrition
13. Investigate: to detect
inhibit
irascible
obdurate
descry
14. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
naive
loathing
abrogate
careen
15. Not a straight line: side glance
bereave
askance
labyrinth
antedate
16. Praise: any honor
facsimile
articulate
accolade
evident
17. Boring: usual
mendacious/ mendacity
quotidian
minatory
satiate
18. Carousal: obscene
salacious
obsequies
articulate
noisome
19. Pleasant-Sounding
sonorous
injurious
acrimonious
erroneous
20. Denying of self:
spartan
renege
denounce
dictum
21. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
truculent
Bilious
strident
Precipiate
22. Luck: protecting charm
knell
largess
amulet
asperity
23. Luck: presenting in favorable condition
sidle
eloquent
inert
propitiate
24. Copy: likness
grandiloquent
probity
peruse
simulated
25. Assist- Support by argument
equitable
Advocate
appease
abnegate
26. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): violent condemnation
pellucid
vituperation
appease
decry
27. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
lament
vicarious
abrogate
iconoclast
28. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
temperate
imperious
dour
penultimate
29. Act quickly- Sudden or rash action/emotion
bereave
Impetuous
conjugal
enigmatic
30. Bad Mood: Complaining
Querulous
banal
labyrinth
noisome
31. Hatred
incipient
rancor
aperture
Audacious
32. Funny
Abrupt
riposte
caustic
fell
33. Pleasant-Sounding
authoritarian
succinct
demise
harmonious
34. Family:
distaff
dissipated
inexorable
forage
35. Bad Mood: Sharp irriation
abash
Pique
retrograde
odious
36. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
obloquy
esoteric
appease
iconoclast
37. Poor: having no money
hinder
tyrannical
impecunious
belabor
38. Truth
reprobate
loquacious
probity
zealot
39. Wisdom
Precipiate
deleterious
epigram
acidulous
40. Lazy/ Sluggish
Espouse
equivocate
intractable
lethargic
41. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
Pique
Terse
flippant
consanguine
42. Investigate: to find out definitely
elegy
axiom
ascertain
vexing
43. Boring: foolish
noxious
sidle
turgid
fatuous
44. Funny
levity
demise
impugn
euphonious
45. Stubborn: to annoy
vexing
caustic
serrated
partisan
46. Diffcult ot understand
obscure
Synopsis
appraise
clement
47. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
lament
malice
destitute
aperture
48. Withdrawal/Retreat: give up
fell
impugn
augur
abnegation
49. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
respite
spurious
aberrant
truculent
50. Hatred: opposite force
anatagonism
sooth
Abrupt
meander