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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: regard as less impressive
belittle
antecede
ciruitous
progenitor
2. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
Bilious
vindictive
bemusing
Petulant
3. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
jocular
Precipiate
Burgeoning
labyrinth
4. Hatred
antedate
perspicacious
enmity
sojourn
5. Timid/timidity
perfidy
apocryphal
recidivism
pusillanimous
6. Embarrass: awkwardness
perfidy
gaucherie
inveigh
turgid
7. Boring: lacking in freshness
intransigent
rescind
salacious
trite
8. Withdrawal/Retreat: give up
abnegation
circumvent
bromide
venal
9. Stubborn
progenitor
obsitnate
fetid
rebuke
10. Falsehood: tellind lies
craven
fealty
mendacious/ mendacity
laconic
11. Withdrawal/Retreat: repeat
pellucid
rescind
temporal
auspice
12. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
carom
fetid
partisan
esoteric
13. Death/ Mourning: mournful
dolorous
erudite
salacious
harrangue
14. Nag: to urge
cadaver
admonish
expatiate
tyro
15. Praise: formal expression of high praise
Proselyte
abatement
peruse
encomium
16. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
magnanimous
fallacious
erudite
inimical
17. Greedy
calmuny
miserly
cadaver
stultify
18. Prevent/Obstruct
inhibit
caustic
dissemble
abhorrence
19. Falsehood
noisome
spurious
minatory
forage
20. Harmful: deadly
aberrant
gainsay
baneful
succinct
21. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
facsimile
temporal
expiate
quintessence
22. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
contrition
truism
orifice
denounce
23. Truth
Querulous
acerbic
probity
ephemeral
24. Pacify/Satisfy
admonish
defer
prescient
salubrious
25. Timid/timidity: cowardly
destitute
adulterate
craven
canard
26. Wisdom
distaff
ephemeral
enervate
platitude
27. Hostile
Dudgeon
mercenary
antithetic
probity
28. Denying of self:
courageous
abnegate
bemusing
taciturn
29. Harsh-Sounding:
naive
palliate
mollify
dissonant
30. Wisdom
Mordant
fortuitous
aphorism
amulet
31. Innocent/ Inexperienced: eaisly trick
expiate
lambaste
enigmatic
gullible
32. Hesitate:
askance
oscillate
intractable
objurgate
33. Sorrow: funeral song
harmonious
mercenary
peremptory
threnody
34. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
vituperate
mordant
beneficial
cogent
35. Pacify/Satisfy
Pique
cryptic
evident
slake
36. Changing quickly: changeable
mercurial
elegiac
baleful
recondite
37. Poor: having no money
impecunious
recidivism
verity
Sustenance
38. Forgive:
slake
dolor
redress
vacillate
39. Dictorial: tyrant
synchrounous
dolor
tyrannical
eulogize
40. Wandering
diffidence
abrogate
expatiate
dauntless
41. Withdrawal/Retreat
pernicious
recant
simulated
articulate
42. Copy: Model
paradigm
chagrin
venerate
anathema
43. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
conjugal
inscrutable
jocular
erudite
44. Generous/Kind
unstinting
ciruitous
prolix
laconic
45. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
placate
gibe
recreant
fissure
46. Hesitate: to show doubt
veracious
waver
endogamous
deleterious
47. Harmful; full of menancing influence
iconoclast
baleful
Proponet
lackadaisical
48. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
acrimonious
aberrant
fissure
Synopsis
49. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
limpid
anomaly
Asperity
remonstrate
50. Not a straight line: side glance
anomalous
tantamount
abstain
askance