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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. Investigate: to analyze
probity
altrustic
assay
beneficial
2. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
propitiate
laconic
abstain
diatribe
3. Gaps/Openings: reduction
pedestrian
abatement
loquacious
anomaly
4. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
filial
Proselyte
mordacious
rhetoric
5. Denying of self:
baneful
stoic
fortnight
probity
6. Diffcult ot understand:
nascent
recondite
rapacious
platitude
7. Terse
succinct
peruse
Proponet
euphonious
8. Withdrawal/Retreat
rift
anatagonism
eon
demur
9. Healthy
salubrious
astute
Wapish
harmonious
10. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
veracious
defamation
impecunious
abortive
11. Hesitate: to show doubt
craven
wraith
waver
intractable
12. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
grandiloquent
indisputable
fortend
belittle
13. Terse: concise
compendious
fetid
fortend
calmuny
14. Forgive: to clear
lambaste
putrid
vindicate
Petulant
15. Harmful; full of menancing influence
baleful
ciruitous
incipient
odium
16. Act quickly
anomaly
vortex
Apace
Tyro
17. Not a straight line: tip to one side in motion
careen
prescient
vindicate
redress
18. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
implacable
meander
reprehend
obdurate
19. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
ingenuous
inscrutable
din
providental
20. Not a straight line: turn to side
carom
awry
erroneous
aberrant
21. Harmful: threatening
reprobate
enjoin
archaic
minatory
22. Sorrow: funeral song
threnody
rift
archaic
sardonic
23. Pacify/Satisfy: to appease
careen
turgid
mollify
sordid
24. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
curmudgeon
vindictive
fulsome
synchrounous
25. Funny: a silly smile
morose
lugubrious
melancholy
simper
26. Funny: waggish
jocular
temperate
discursive
chortle
27. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
noisome
Fledgling
inscrutable
denounce
28. Pleasant-Sounding
morose
counterpart
sonorous
curmudgeon
29. Lazy/ Sluggish
fissure
prolix
caustic
quiescent
30. Predict: indicative
vicarious
obdurate
penurious
portentous
31. Falsehood: decieve
abjure
authoritarian
duplicity
gainsay
32. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
tendentious
quintessence
antedate
platitude
33. Bad Mood: Cranky
strident
Bilious
beneficial
taciturn
34. Withdrawal/Retreat: moving backward
gainsay
retrograde
caustic
strident
35. Prevent/Obstruct
hinder
foible
careen
simulated
36. Eccentric/ dissimilar: belonging to a select few
perfidy
minatory
esoteric
Bilious
37. Insincere: insincerely lavish
redress
fulsome
dictum
ameliorate
38. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
perspicacious
calmuny
sooth
obsequies
39. Favoring/ Not impartial: adherent person or party
partisan
astute
ribald
cogent
40. Bad Mood: Complaining
turbid
Querulous
vindicate
truism
41. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
untoward
zealot
droll
Espouse
42. Hostile: revengeful spirit
abash
vindictive
astute
arcane
43. Not a straight line: wavelike motion
libertine
altrustic
esoteric
undulating
44. Nag: to urge
waver
harrangue
Umbrage
exhort
45. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
mitigate
altrustic
simulated
bemusing
46. Assist- Very Generous
Munificent
baneful
platitude
flippant
47. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
verbose
remonstrate
ostensible
canard
48. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not in chronological time
remonstrate
diatribe
anachronism
precursor
49. Wandering: temporary stay
cacophony
sojourn
noisome
magnanimous
50. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
threnody
Cursory
Apace
Sustenance