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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. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
depraved
antedate
lambaste
abjure
2. Wisdom: trite saying
Ancillary
fealty
reprehend
bromide
3. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
libertine
tantamount
mercenary
remonstrate
4. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
Cursory
peremptory
abrogate
putrid
5. Luck: lucky
auspicious
denounce
fealty
veracious
6. Bad Mood: peevish
pettish
amulet
ardor/ ardent
simulated
7. Funny
awry
serrated
riposte
objurgate
8. Insincere: pretended
bemusing
reprehend
ostensible
timorous
9. Disgusting/Offensive:
demise
Petulant
succinct
noisome
10. Carousal
anterior
bacchanlian
ascetic
appraise
11. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
Compendium
canard
Burgeoning
portentous
12. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
martinet
prolix
partisan
Inchoate
13. Predict
portentous
augur
simper
sordid
14. Withdrawal/Retreat
abortive
enervate
vicarious
caustic
15. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
extol
rent
interjustice
Callow
16. Hatred: extreme repugnance
forage
abhorrence
untoward
mordant
17. Embarrass: humiliation
veracious
chagrin
cryptic
mercenary
18. Family:
orifice
discomfort
distaff
ludicrous
19. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
compunction
renege
disconsolate
perspicacious
20. Truth: cannot be doubted
millennium
sooth
extol
indubitable
21. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
calmuny
turbid
fortnight
Bolster
22. Copy: not natural
credulous
eclectic
salutary
factitious
23. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
enmity
epoch
antedate
astute
24. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
calmuny
excoriate
doctrinaire
avaricious
25. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
palliate
insidious
encumber
bemusing
26. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
abash
decamp
recant
enigmatic
27. Criticize/criticism: berate severly
churlish
lethargic
excoriate
dolor
28. Changing quickly: erractic
capricious
meander
bombastic
Bilious
29. Prevent/Obstruct
mendacious/ mendacity
arcane
careen
hinder
30. Terse: reserved in speech
taciturn
turgid
mordant
distaff
31. Not a straight line: move sideways
sidle
meander
mollify
pillory
32. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
obscure
abeyance
slothful
teeter
33. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
simper
impugn
inert
plaintive
34. Wandering: passing aimlessly
expiate
discursive
distaff
incipient
35. Timid/timidity
doleful
eloquent
expiate
recreant
36. Forgive: make amends
expiate
amulet
stultify
melodious
37. Act quickly
wraith
peruse
truculent
Apace
38. Beginning/Young: procreate
Engender
timorous
elegiac
lambaste
39. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
malice
acerbic
obviate
partisan
40. Act quickly
interjustice
miserly
Abrupt
Syllabus
41. Stubborn
untoward
obdurate
demise
Corroborate
42. Pacify/Satisfy
bromide
progenitor
renege
satiate
43. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
martinet
anterior
abhorrence
Fledgling
44. Withdrawal/Retreat
decamp
recant
scathing
indigent
45. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
peregrination
acclaim
droll
magnanimous
46. Denying of self: extreme denial
libidinous
Tyro
ascetic
diffident
47. Boring: foolish
fatuous
dour
eclectic
grandiloquent
48. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
dogmatic
despotic
fatuous
malevolent
49. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
abhorrence
facetious
abeyance
Terse
50. Hostile: boorish; rude
ambulatory
periphrastic
churlish
prescient