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SAT Word Groups
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Abbreviated Communication
exhort
Synopsis
Compendium
Umbrage
2. Eccentric/ dissimilar: abnormal
scathing
morose
aberrant
extol
3. Carousal: shameful
turpitude
despotic
noxious
Burgeoning
4. Dictorial:pertaining to autocratic
quiescent
calmuny
volatile
despotic
5. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
laud/laudatory
palliate
disconsolate
truculent
6. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
lucid
baleful
ephemeral
Tyro
7. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
mordant
venal
duplicity
Synopsis
8. Criticize/criticism: shameful
abeyance
opprobrium
implacable
churlish
9. Wisdom
phlegmatic
aphorism
astute
apothegm
10. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
objurgate
eclectic
Inchoate
occlued
11. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
vindictive
Abridge
belittle
canny
12. Falsehood: treachery
trepidation
reprehend
perfidy
meander
13. Generous/Kind
unstinting
auspice
Engender
untoward
14. Funny: to taunt; deride
munificent
gibe
intransigent
verity
15. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
vitriolic
amulet
Dilettante
anomaly
16. Diffcult ot understand:
fell
Tyro
ambiguous
rent
17. Withdrawal/Retreat
odious
aggrandize
abortive
disparge
18. Not a straight line: round about
emulate
excoriate
ciruitous
threnody
19. Weaken
adulterate
zealot
venal
odious
20. Gaps/Openings
Querulous
aberrant
raucous
respite
21. Withdrawal/Retreat: renounce
recondite
reprehend
renege
portentous
22. Weaken
prolix
invidious
serrated
vitiate
23. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
pellucid
Mordant
factitious
inscrutable
24. Praise: any honor
accolade
vortex
capricious
respite
25. Investigate: to find out definitely
ascertain
anterior
depraved
capricious
26. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
lambaste
stoic
Precipiate
raillery
27. Gaps/Openings
disparge
interregnum
probity
synchrounous
28. Sorrow: gloomily
morose
remission
fell
revile
29. Forgive: make amends
paradigm
expiate
perfidy
lament
30. Harmful
injurious
Apace
serrated
doctrinaire
31. Disgusting/Offensive: odor of decaying flesh
putrid
quotidian
lethargic
enigmatic
32. Bad Mood: Complaining
prescient
gibe
temporal
Querulous
33. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
depraved
cryptic
Fledgling
antedate
34. Forgive: free from guilt
expatiate
careen
exculpate
pellucid
35. Insincere: moralistic fervor
esoteric
gaucherie
unctuous
chortle
36. Boring: dull
specious
prosaic
opaque
peregrination
37. Timid/timidity: lacking confident
diffident
sonorous
deleterious
amulet
38. Bold: extremely daring
equitable
Audacious
synchrounous
trepidation
39. Nag: to urge
naive
sententious
absolve
admonish
40. Truth: speaking the truth
Petulant
veracious
dissipated
melodious
41. Dictorial: opinionated
portentous
mollify
dogmatic
articulate
42. Sorrow: expressing sorrow
elegiac
defile
baneful
auspice
43. Weaken
philanthropic
circumvent
enervate
curt
44. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
Proponet
caustic
slake
Tyro
45. Prevent/Obstruct
discomfort
truculent
forage
deleterious
46. Carousal
anathema
perspicacious
bacchanlian
euphonious
47. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
reprobate
rent
acerbic
lackadaisical
48. Bad Mood: Anger
obviate
revile
Dudgeon
raucous
49. Weaken
trenchant
exacerbate
satiate
stultify
50. Wandering
beneficial
mendacious/ mendacity
expatiate
baleful