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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. Withdrawal/Retreat; temporary decrease
remission
aphorism
gaucherie
irascible
2. Luck: protecting charm
lugubrious
riposte
amulet
auspicious
3. Greedy: acting merely for money
salutary
mercenary
abstruse
Abet
4. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
succinct
redress
defamation
peruse
5. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
placate
Novitiate
indigent
Headlong
6. Hostile: cruel
Audacious
chagrin
truculent
intransigent
7. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
salacious
detestation
prognosticate
Abridge
8. Gaps/Openings: reduction
discursive
turbid
abatement
renege
9. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
duplicity
axiom
Curtail
fetid
10. Beginner/ Amateur
avaricious
orifice
Dilettante
remission
11. Criticize/criticism
reprove
Audacious
facetious
hector
12. Criticize/criticism: abuse
axiom
pillory
arcane
antecede
13. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
turbid
cavil
harmonious
ascertain
14. Easy to understand: clear
facetious
limpid
placate
spartan
15. Withdrawal/Retreat
threnody
recidivism
synchrounous
melancholy
16. Harsh-Sounding
turgid
appease
antithetic
cacophony
17. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
compunction
taciturn
garrulous
exculpate
18. Forgive: relieve from crime
malevolent
beneficial
loathing
acquit
19. Praise
recalcitrant
extol
Curtail
doleful
20. Withdrawal/Retreat
churlish
erroneous
courageous
abortive
21. Truth: cannot be doubted
astute
admonish
indubitable
limpid
22. Nag: to urge
diffidence
admonish
magnanimous
precursor
23. Wandering
expatiate
occlued
undulating
recondite
24. Bad Mood: Eaisly angered
irascible
Sustenance
pettish
Callow
25. Assist
Countenance
lament
abrogate
remission
26. Hesitate: to show doubt
waver
harrangue
Callow
stultify
27. Lazy/ Sluggish
torpid
recalcitrant
esoteric
acerbic
28. Wisdom
sordid
opprobrium
aphorism
candor/candid
29. Hostile
interregnum
penurious
antithetic
eulogize
30. Unusual
iconoclast
lugubrious
admonish
cavil
31. Copy: Model
truculent
avaricious
paradigm
diatribe
32. Easy to understand:
renege
articulate
dissemble
aberration
33. Harsh-Sounding:
probity
raucous
ardor/ ardent
libertine
34. Family: having same ancestry
opprobrium
consanguine
assuage
anachronism
35. Luck: marvelous
temporal
anachronism
portentous
mundane
36. Beginning/Young: procreate
Engender
tendentious
recidivism
altrustic
37. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
mendacious/ mendacity
fatuous
equivocate
fetter
38. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
fealty
curt
diffident
idiosyncrasy
39. Terse: brief
aspersion
deride/ derisive
curt
volatile
40. Luck: desirable
Proselyte
ostensible
optimum
untoward
41. Harmful; full of menancing influence
raucous
periphrastic
baleful
arcane
42. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
fortnight
asperity
axiom
inscrutable
43. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
lambaste
lament
orifice
oblique
44. Investigate: to analyze
martinet
assay
noxious
Proponet
45. Greedy
adventitious
penultimate
covetous
perfidy
46. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
succinct
inimical
decry
archaic
47. Copy: exact copy
ostensible
cogent
fervid
facsimile
48. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
undermine
expiate
remonstrate
elegy
49. Falsehood
stoic
Headlong
odium
apocryphal
50. Carousal: corrupt
chicanery
adulterate
fratricide
depraved