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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: to condemn
levity
decry
feigned
Mordant
2. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
undulating
calmuny
ephemeral
reprehend
3. Funny: waggish
excoriate
jocular
harrangue
obsitnate
4. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
prognosticate
tyrannical
putrid
mordant
5. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
injurious
evident
verity
calmuny
6. Prevent/Obstruct
untoward
occlued
abash
dolorous
7. Insincere: conceal truth
dissemble
defamation
cavil
fell
8. Family: not having a relation of a child to a parent
chagrin
filial
intransigent
strident
9. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
Abrupt
obdurate
irascible
acerbic
10. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
recreant
cacophony
amulet
quintessence
11. Criticize/criticism: abusive language
simper
admonish
strident
obloquy
12. Nasty
dissemble
vicarious
zealot
noxious
13. Weaken
lugubrious
din
torpid
enervate
14. Funny
levity
dissemble
macabre
Precipiate
15. Smart/Learned: characterized by great knowlege
Audacious
indubitable
erudite
acidulous
16. Carousal: full of sexual act
admonish
peremptory
libidinous
acquit
17. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
expiate
belittle
bacchanlian
remonstrate
18. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
garrulous
emulate
licentious
fetid
19. Embarrass: feeling of anxiety caused by regret
synchrounous
compunction
Compendium
bombastic
20. Truth
probity
temporal
epigram
vortex
21. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
appease
encomium
lull
Cursory
22. Forgive: to clear
meander
fetid
mordant
vindicate
23. Not a straight line: round about
hinder
dogmatic
stultify
ciruitous
24. Boring: foolish
lament
fatuous
appraise
odium
25. Beginning/Young: to begin to grow
Burgeoning
Inchoate
dissemble
grandiloquent
26. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
stoic
curt
aberration
dolorous
27. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
penultimate
doleful
credulous
phlegmatic
28. Investigate: examine in detail
lament
peruse
remonstrate
recreant
29. Poor
temperate
demur
destitute
sidle
30. Assist- Very Generous
noisome
Asperity
rescind
Munificent
31. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
venerate
pellucid
gyrate
Munificent
32. Insincere: pretended
melodious
putrid
ostensible
renege
33. Stubborn
recidivism
clement
amulet
obdurate
34. Copy: predecessor
diffident
precursor
rancor
abhorrence
35. Nasty
abash
noisome
erudite
Apace
36. Smart/Learned: clever
Dudgeon
miserly
astute
labyrinth
37. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
equity
diatribe
acidulous
din
38. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
esoteric
trite
acerbic
slake
39. Greedy: acting merely for money
mercenary
Espouse
calmuny
mordant
40. Nag: repeatedly than necessary
careen
belabor
specious
diurnal
41. Praise: to solute
axiom
acclaim
counterpart
zealot
42. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
Proselyte
inscrutable
noisome
magnanimous
43. Nasty: stinking
eloquent
fetid
lambaste
serrated
44. Funny:
evident
verbose
facetious
tyrannical
45. Harmful
Cursory
detestation
insidious
vindicate
46. Gaps/Openings: reduction
despotic
melancholy
abatement
aggrandize
47. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
abhorrence
Callow
iniquity
retrograde
48. Prevent/Obstruct
cirumlocution
hinder
Syllabus
perspicacious
49. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
frankness
iconoclast
ribald
fortuitous
50. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
craven
scion
inveigh
turbid