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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. Family: a descendant
deleterious
scion
gaucherie
indolent
2. Generous/Kind
calmuny
scion
philanthropic
pettish
3. Family: marriage
excoriate
conjugal
cirumlocution
remission
4. Weaken
axiom
rue
vitiate
Cursory
5. Withdrawal/Retreat: repeat
obsequies
rescind
diurnal
temporal
6. Carousal: excessive indulgence
debauchery
respite
destitute
abrogate
7. Carousal: shameful
impecunious
recreant
turpitude
encomium
8. Unusual
credulous
destitute
lackadaisical
iconoclast
9. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
hackneyed
abrogate
enjoin
millennium
10. Diffcult ot understand
portentous
obscure
remission
diffident
11. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
ludicrous
oblique
retrograde
inert
12. Wisdom
miserly
platitude
dictum
cryptic
13. Truth
indisputable
paradigm
scion
admonish
14. Pleasant-Sounding
paradigm
periphrastic
sonorous
implacable
15. Assist: Example Stalwart light house
knell
magnanimous
Stalwart
undulating
16. Hesitate: vacillate
dither
tyro
bereave
covetous
17. Innocent/ Inexperienced: beginner in learning anything
fratricide
filial
baleful
tyro
18. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
anatagonism
Mordant
castigate
anomaly
19. Timid/timidity
truculent
pusillanimous
phlegmatic
acidulous
20. Praise: honor
aggrandize
accolade
injurious
antecede
21. Predict: a favorable sign
fealty
auspice
libidinous
Espouse
22. Assist
baleful
apothegm
stoic
Abet
23. Overblown/ Wordy:
castigate
indisputable
bombastic
vacillate
24. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
Terse
sojourn
exacerbate
ardor/ ardent
25. Stubborn: not able to appease
defer
harrangue
macabre
implacable
26. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
inhibit
specious
Cursory
verity
27. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
harrangue
frankness
imperious
lambaste
28. Harmful
acclaim
chagrin
morose
inimical
29. Time/Duration/Order: 1000 year
millennium
timorous
truculent
placate
30. Withdrawal/Retreat
contrition
recidivism
aggrandize
vituperation
31. Hatred
salutary
putrid
remonstrate
equitable
32. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
laud/laudatory
reprobate
exonerate
compunction
33. Copy: duplication
bacchanlian
counterpart
diatribe
tirade
34. Criticize/criticism: a scolding attack
candor/candid
harrangue
dolor
rebuke
35. Denying of self:
lucid
stoic
salubrious
disparge
36. Praise: any honor
cogent
accolade
opprobrium
articulate
37. Embarrass: ashamed
abash
noxious
bemusing
expiate
38. Withdrawal/Retreat
imperious
demur
prevaricate
pusillanimous
39. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
arcane
fissure
diurnal
naive
40. Hatred
expiate
insipid
timorous
detestation
41. Death/ Mourning: bell made for a funeral
esoteric
knell
specious
abjure
42. Carousal: obscene
odium
acclaim
castigate
salacious
43. Embarrass
laud/laudatory
expiate
Novitiate
anterior
44. Dictorial: complete obedience
misanthropic
clement
authoritarian
indigent
45. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
magnanimous
rent
providental
vindictive
46. Not a straight line: side glance
askance
simulated
indolent
arcane
47. Carousal: wicked
fetid
iniquity
invidious
vituperation
48. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
Burgeoning
inveigh
stoic
ephemeral
49. Lazy/ Sluggish
endogamous
Espouse
torpid
droll
50. Stubborn: to annoy
grandiloquent
Munificent
vexing
abstain