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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. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
objurgate
Neophyte
rift
Headlong
2. Greedy: acting merely for money
mercenary
aphorism
cadaver
abstruse
3. Falsehood; incorrect
candor/candid
dour
erroneous
levity
4. Dictorial: tyrant
odium
sooth
tyrannical
awry
5. Luck: protecting charm
platitude
amulet
Pique
undulating
6. Overblown/ Wordy:
Sustenance
askance
periphrastic
ribald
7. Criticize/criticism: to contradict
orifice
facsimile
gainsay
defer
8. Gaps/Openings
respite
unstinting
impede
acclaim
9. Falsehood; pleasing to the eye but not authentic/ deceptive
Synopsis
specious
descry
interregnum
10. Harmful
baleful
lugubrious
inimical
demur
11. Prevent/Obstruct
acrimonious
discomfort
pillory
Inchoate
12. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
salacious
laud/laudatory
rent
expiate
13. Poor: having no money
ascertain
apocryphal
impecunious
baneful
14. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
moribound
Ancillary
reprobate
peregrination
15. Stubborn: resistant
renitent
expiate
Sustenance
unstinting
16. Withdrawal/Retreat: give up
sincere
abnegation
Burgeoning
obdurate
17. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
perspicacious
insipid
plaintive
quotidian
18. Luck: something by chance
placate
pettish
adventitious
defer
19. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
Querulous
inveigh
fortuitous
Mordant
20. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
Querulous
Abridge
demise
melancholy
21. Weaken
inhibit
elegy
tendentious
unstinting
22. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
abjure
vicarious
levity
Petulant
23. Bold: extremely daring
eloquent
taciturn
ribald
Audacious
24. Embarrass: slight flaw
anathema
diffident
foible
decry
25. Denying of self: extreme denial
aberrant
axiom
ascetic
raucous
26. Embarrass
obscure
pithy
portentous
expiate
27. Lazy/ Sluggish
doctrinaire
torpid
recondite
ameliorate
28. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
wraith
peremptory
filial
acidulous
29. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
aggrandize
acerbic
succinct
bombastic
30. Innocent/ Inexperienced: guillible
Abridge
credulous
spartan
levity
31. Weaken: elminate
obviate
threnody
Munificent
Tyro
32. Falsehood: tellind lies
fortuitous
rebuke
quiescent
mendacious/ mendacity
33. Pleasant-Sounding
pettish
frankness
destitute
sonorous
34. Criticize/criticism: berate sharply
objurgate
asperity
conjugal
pettish
35. Easy to understand
eloquent
truculent
abash
mercenary
36. Wisdom: proverb
slake
diurnal
anomalous
adage
37. Stubborn: not able to appease
implacable
dither
din
acquit
38. Hesitate: vacillate
dither
prognosticate
rapacious
compunction
39. Gaps/Openings: reduction
abatement
ambulatory
intransigent
macabre
40. Wandering: passing aimlessly
rhetoric
chagrin
discursive
libidinous
41. Beginner/ Amateur
Dilettante
Callow
intractable
largess
42. Stubborn: not obedient
expiate
dauntless
enjoin
recalcitrant
43. Lazy/ Sluggish
odium
slothful
askance
rapacious
44. Harmful: deadly
equitable
rebarbative
baneful
hinder
45. Wisdom
sententious
rescind
portentous
tantamount
46. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
acrimonious
dour
trite
Abrupt
47. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
hiatus
decry
dissipated
forlorn
48. Carousal: vulgar speech
pettish
ludicrous
antithetic
ribald
49. Bad Mood: Cranky
Bilious
odious
dauntless
waver
50. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
impugn
dither
abhorrence
largess