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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: to scold
inscrutable
berate
epigram
scion
2. Not a straight line: round about
compendious
ciruitous
extol
opaque
3. Funny
dissonant
levity
inimical
baleful
4. Bad Mood: Cranky
Bilious
bombastic
gyrate
indisputable
5. Bold: Brave
intractable
courageous
encumber
venerate
6. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
vacillate
epoch
filial
melodious
7. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
rhetoric
axiom
dour
sojourn
8. Assist
wraith
Countenance
orifice
remonstrate
9. Funny: to taunt; deride
courageous
gibe
paradigm
beneicent
10. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
platitude
fervid
Petulant
epigram
11. Luck: desirable
flippant
optimum
lackadaisical
iconoclast
12. Stubborn: uncomprimising
portentous
licentious
succinct
intransigent
13. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
disconsolate
macabre
bereave
acrimonious
14. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
acclaim
Dilettante
ascertain
acidulous
15. Nag: stubbornly adheres to rules
flippant
martinet
anomalous
peruse
16. Timid/timidity: tremor
trepidation
vicarious
frankness
implacable
17. Predict
salutary
prognosticate
obsequies
quiescent
18. Death/ Mourning: near death
cadaver
appraise
moribound
apothegm
19. Healthy
beneficial
pedestrian
impecunious
antecede
20. Embarrass: humiliation
quiescent
epigram
aberrant
chagrin
21. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
hiatus
Abrupt
euphonious
fey
22. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): miserable
baleful
esoteric
idiosyncrasy
enmity
23. Bold:fearless
credulous
enjoin
dauntless
defamation
24. Prevent/Obstruct
mitigate
inhibit
Pique
dauntless
25. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
diffident
flippant
Ancillary
diatribe
26. Embarrass: to feel regret
canard
rue
discomfort
indigent
27. Denying of self: self restrained
mercenary
temperate
fortuitous
factitious
28. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): harmful
malevolent
defile
obdurate
penurious
29. Falsehood: misleading
fallacious
vitriolic
idiosyncrasy
renitent
30. Easy to understand: clear
emulate
limpid
sonorous
defer
31. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
obdurate
apothegm
Neophyte
rent
32. Assist: perosn that support a cause
Proponet
canard
hiatus
sordid
33. Wisdom
fetid
bromide
hegemonic
epigram
34. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
articulate
indolent
vortex
naive
35. Carousal: corrupt
depraved
sidle
acerbic
dissemble
36. Death/ Mourning: visible spirit
pellucid
sardonic
assuage
wraith
37. Embarrass: slight flaw
aphorism
foible
naive
minatory
38. Weaken
cacophony
apothegm
adulterate
beneicent
39. Luck: presenting in favorable condition
Advocate
lugubrious
propitiate
insipid
40. Investigate: to detect
dauntless
mercurial
descry
discrete
41. Hesitate: vacillate
inimical
astute
indubitable
dither
42. Diffcult ot understand
zealot
appraise
obscure
gyrate
43. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
minatory
fetid
apothegm
Synopsis
44. Greedy
miserly
aphorism
equitable
vitriolic
45. Greedy:
iniquity
distaff
hiatus
avaricious
46. Praise
fawn
Espouse
Munificent
emulate
47. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
morose
acquit
obsitnate
Inchoate
48. Nag: find fault with uncertainty
cavil
endogamous
gyrate
enjoin
49. Pacify/Satisfy
fawn
defer
dissipated
careen
50. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
precursor
exculpate
dissonant
defamation