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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. Predict
hiatus
undulating
fortnight
prognosticate
2. Investigate: to detect
philanthropic
defunct
descry
slake
3. Not a straight line: strike and rebound
acidulous
carom
mordacious
disparge
4. Hesitate: vacillate
Impetuous
Inchoate
admonish
dither
5. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
rent
lethargic
prosaic
ameliorate
6. Family: having same ancestry
mollify
fortnight
slothful
consanguine
7. Insincere: pretended
sooth
ostensible
decry
exacerbate
8. Sorrow: funeral song
deride/ derisive
Pique
threnody
rapacious
9. Weaken
taciturn
pillory
acrimonious
adulterate
10. Disgusting/Offensive: hateful
odious
hackneyed
indisputable
talisman
11. Generous/Kind
philanthropic
cryptic
harrangue
tyro
12. Praise: to solute
satiate
acclaim
distaff
torpid
13. Assist- Very Generous
forlorn
Munificent
mercurial
baneful
14. Easy to understand: clear
lackadaisical
irascible
defunct
cogent
15. Terse: concise
courageous
abstain
compendious
raucous
16. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
altrustic
defamation
melodious
hiatus
17. Predict: indicative
impugn
portentous
vicarious
recant
18. Death/ Mourning: near death
eloquent
carom
abnegation
moribound
19. Lazy/ Sluggish:
munificent
taciturn
ameliorate
lackadaisical
20. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
cavil
libidinous
oblique
Burgeoning
21. Hesitate: to show doubt
churlish
anachronism
waver
detestation
22. Bad Mood: Snappish
jocular
libidinous
Wapish
imperious
23. Family: biologically ancestor
interjustice
inveigh
magnanimous
progenitor
24. Hatred: habitual dislike
pedestrian
indisputable
pusillanimous
antipathy
25. Embarrass: awkwardness
fulsome
riposte
gaucherie
inert
26. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
pernicious
fawn
spurious
aspersion
27. Nag: to urge
penurious
peripatetic
abstain
admonish
28. Equal: fairness
fawn
recidivism
equitable
raillery
29. Assist
equivocate
incipient
succinct
Countenance
30. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
antithetic
arcane
anomaly
teeter
31. Harmful
sonorous
salacious
insidious
pedestrian
32. Hesitate: wobble
remission
berate
untoward
teeter
33. Pacify/Satisfy
Abet
trenchant
insidious
sooth
34. Death/ Mourning: pertaining to burial
moribound
peripatetic
disconsolate
sepulchral
35. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
inexorable
adage
epoch
diatribe
36. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
vexing
iconoclast
chagrin
odium
37. Truth
bemusing
undermine
fealty
probity
38. Truth
odium
ciruitous
sincere
Synopsis
39. Falsehood: give false appearance
foible
Wapish
cirumlocution
dissemble
40. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
laconic
enigmatic
dissemble
Fledgling
41. Gaps/Openings: opening made by rending on fissure
rent
dissemble
diffidence
abash
42. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
prescient
facetious
abstain
trenchant
43. Carousal: obscene
turbid
elegy
abstain
salacious
44. Death/ Mourning: mournful
elegiac
belittle
scion
dolorous
45. Changing quickly: erractic
guile
mundane
auspicious
capricious
46. Criticize/criticism
abjure
reprove
anachronism
rift
47. Carousal: corrupt
Abrupt
depraved
disconsolate
reproof
48. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
careen
sidle
portentous
renege
49. Bad Mood: impatient/irritation
taciturn
novitiate
prolix
Petulant
50. Praise: to praise highly
renege
encumber
eulogize
anterior