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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. Harsh-Sounding:
minatory
lugubrious
remonstrate
dissonant
2. Bold: Brave
courageous
adulterate
aspersion
riposte
3. Time/Duration/Order: beginning of distinctive period
lull
elegy
epoch
peruse
4. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
ambiguous
fissure
feigned
threnody
5. Nag: to urge
aspersion
admonish
fortuitous
redress
6. Praise
grandiloquent
laud/laudatory
interjustice
loquacious
7. Boring: foolish
verity
disingenuous
fatuous
defunct
8. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
esoteric
castigate
exhort
Fledgling
9. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
equivocate
impugn
propitiate
forage
10. Carousal: wicked/ drunken person
disparge
reprobate
fell
denounce
11. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
recondite
Tyro
awry
chagrin
12. Time/Duration/Order: to go before
antecede
antithetic
itinerant
gullible
13. Truth: candor
Apace
macabre
Bilious
frankness
14. Poor: having no money
peruse
respite
impecunious
iconoclast
15. Equal: fairness
Syllabus
unctuous
equitable
sardonic
16. Bad Mood: Snappish
taciturn
Wapish
disparge
precursor
17. Praise: any honor
fratricide
Novitiate
peripatetic
accolade
18. Assist: State of being sustained
abatement
peripatetic
Sustenance
Ancillary
19. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
antedate
incipient
iconoclast
esurient
20. Unusual: act of deviating from the norm
veracious
acquit
caustic
aberration
21. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
dogmatic
probity
erroneous
acerbic
22. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
abrogate
precursor
apothegm
esoteric
23. Hatred
specious
verity
careen
loathing
24. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
curmudgeon
insipid
emulate
placate
25. Falsehood
obsitnate
apocryphal
eulogize
abstain
26. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
Advocate
riposte
scathing
sordid
27. Not a straight line: turn to side
discrete
awry
abortive
implacable
28. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
ameliorate
Novitiate
dissonant
rift
29. Sorrow: unhappy or miserable
forlorn
libertine
gainsay
caustic
30. Wisdom
serrated
trenchant
lament
truism
31. Prevent/Obstruct
portentous
encumber
trepidation
opaque
32. Dictorial: opinionated
specious
canard
emulate
dogmatic
33. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
enervate
aspersion
Audacious
fetter
34. Smart/Learned: clever
astute
baneful
rancor
compendious
35. Diffcult ot understand: not clear
Munificent
opaque
quintessence
intransigent
36. Family:
probity
prognosticate
distaff
abstruse
37. Denying of self:
naive
obscure
abnegate
authoritarian
38. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatic
fortuitous
zealot
ciruitous
detestation
39. Diffcult ot understand
intransigent
obscure
abnegate
dictum
40. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
Precipiate
magnanimous
lugubrious
mitigate
41. Terse: brief
assay
pithy
Proselyte
anathema
42. Abbreviated Communication: lessen duration
reprobate
raucous
vitiate
Abridge
43. Carousal: wicked
iniquity
morose
rue
anatagonism
44. Biting (as in wit or temperament):
diffident
fetid
Mordant
acclaim
45. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
magnanimous
vacillate
scion
renitent
46. Generous/Kind
venerate
simper
inexorable
philanthropic
47. Timid/timidity: fearflu
iniquity
Apace
vacillate
timorous
48. Gaps/Openings
enjoin
respite
elegy
serrated
49. Changing quickly: erractic
capricious
asperity
opaque
ardor/ ardent
50. Funny: a silly smile
rebarbative
appease
expiate
simper