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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. Hesitate:
oscillate
expiate
erroneous
abortive
2. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
Cursory
sardonic
admonish
oscillate
3. Greedy
capricious
covetous
tantamount
archaic
4. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
recant
truculent
anomaly
impugn
5. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
Dudgeon
expiate
iconoclast
truculent
6. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
Ancillary
euphonious
aspersion
auspice
7. Generous/Kind
bereave
abortive
unstinting
Abet
8. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
decry
sincere
miserly
scathing
9. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
mitigate
simulated
renege
despotic
10. Falsehood: give false appearance
fallacious
dissemble
spurious
oscillate
11. Criticize/criticism: abuse
abortive
vitiate
pillory
forage
12. Criticize/criticism: to scold
berate
oblique
dolorous
redress
13. Terse: reserved in speech
pillory
Dudgeon
cogent
taciturn
14. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
Burgeoning
altrustic
vitiate
beneicent
15. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
chagrin
noisome
prolix
decamp
16. Wandering: passing aimlessly
discursive
aspersion
opprobrium
equity
17. Hatred
foible
rancor
Countenance
accolade
18. Luck: desirable
incipient
optimum
rebarbative
Proponet
19. Copy: likness
lucid
enjoin
simulated
apocryphal
20. Withdrawal/Retreat: repeat
Asperity
fortend
invidious
rescind
21. Greedy: inordinately greedy
equivocate
Querulous
rapacious
aphorism
22. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
fratricide
epoch
nascent
rescind
23. Unusual
aberration
ameliorate
iconoclast
assuage
24. Stubborn: to annoy
vexing
unstinting
Bilious
jocular
25. Bad Mood: Complaining
facsimile
orifice
Querulous
esoteric
26. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
taciturn
inscrutable
decry
adage
27. Death/ Mourning: bell made for a funeral
cavil
misanthropic
knell
scathing
28. Luck: fate
abnegate
decamp
kismet
taciturn
29. Nasty: stinking
fetid
factitious
antithetic
aphorism
30. Beginner/ Amateur:
belabor
diffidence
Proselyte
salutary
31. Luck: marvelous
palliate
abeyance
portentous
intractable
32. Time/Duration/Order: 2 weeks
exculpate
circumvent
salutary
fortnight
33. Overblown/ Wordy
verbose
fell
temporal
iconoclast
34. Truth: faithfulness
Countenance
dither
fealty
antedate
35. Weaken
lackadaisical
adage
undermine
exhort
36. Praise
venerate
vituperation
harrangue
occlued
37. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
lament
hackneyed
oscillate
propitiate
38. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
turbid
appraise
rhetoric
feigned
39. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
oblique
laconic
indisputable
meander
40. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
largess
hiatus
appraise
objurgate
41. Forgive: make amends
expiate
inhibit
Advocate
evident
42. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
truculent
despotic
acrimonious
Corroborate
43. Sorrow: gloomily
cryptic
gaucherie
morose
sinuous
44. Assist
opprobrium
libidinous
Bolster
frankness
45. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
recreant
remonstrate
rhetoric
expiate
46. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
libertine
conjugal
timorous
assay
47. Diffcult ot understand
abstruse
antipathy
cadaver
fetter
48. Harmful: threatening
impecunious
gibe
minatory
antecede
49. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
curt
chagrin
peregrination
Curtail
50. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
rift
cirumlocution
mordacious
ameliorate