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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. Boring: usual
craven
antedate
Tyro
quotidian
2. Easy to understand: clear
awry
pellucid
temporal
fey
3. Act quickly- bring about prematurely; suddenly
fervid
reprehend
portentous
Precipiate
4. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Sharp
Curtail
acidulous
fetid
harrangue
5. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
abjure
avaricious
naive
disparge
6. Truth: speaking the truth
veracious
lambaste
contrition
Ancillary
7. Investigate: to detect
tantamount
imperious
prolix
descry
8. Unusual: deviation from the common rule
calmuny
anomaly
anomalous
Inchoate
9. Investigate: to estimate value
diurnal
rhetoric
vortex
appraise
10. Wisdom
wraith
inexorable
inert
platitude
11. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
absolve
laud/laudatory
acrimonious
vacillate
12. Carousal: excessive devotion to pleasure
Proselyte
dissipated
taciturn
truculent
13. Criticize/criticism: belitte
fatuous
prescient
debauchery
disparge
14. Truth
Apace
fatuous
Syllabus
indisputable
15. Assist: perosn that support a cause
exonerate
abatement
diurnal
Proponet
16. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
inert
sinuous
antecede
acquit
17. Weaken: increase severity
exacerbate
progenitor
lament
disconsolate
18. Walking About
itinerant
dither
ephemeral
reproof
19. Boring: lack of originality
mollify
putrid
banal
abnegate
20. Dictorial: predominance
remonstrate
descry
hegemonic
pillory
21. Pacify/Satisfy: to make less severe
kismet
Corroborate
mitigate
defer
22. Family: biologically ancestor
progenitor
dour
quintessence
succinct
23. Time/Duration/Order
synchrounous
specious
temporal
philanthropic
24. Stubborn: uncomprimising
intransigent
esoteric
encomium
extol
25. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
feigned
harmonious
tyrannical
vicarious
26. Hesitate: to show doubt
waver
ameliorate
vortex
indigent
27. Pleasant-Sounding
euphonious
loathing
Proponet
peregrination
28. Overblown/ Wordy: indirect speaking
cirumlocution
probity
appease
plaintive
29. Predict: a favorable sign
auspice
iniquity
waver
fealty
30. Pacify/Satisfy
synchrounous
slake
occlued
pedestrian
31. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
dour
deride/ derisive
Apace
unctuous
32. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
Wapish
millennium
abeyance
slake
33. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
rhetoric
contrition
sordid
pernicious
34. Nag;
hector
despotic
paradigm
apocryphal
35. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scornful
adventitious
sardonic
rescind
exculpate
36. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
zealot
disparge
sententious
equivocate
37. Generous/Kind
propitiate
avaricious
philanthropic
adage
38. Criticize/criticism: malicious statement
calmuny
ostensible
equivocate
Advocate
39. Truth
eloquent
inexorable
fealty
sincere
40. Favoring/ Not impartial: fervor passion
archaic
jocular
millennium
ardor/ ardent
41. Criticize/criticism: shameful
progenitor
opprobrium
Petulant
assuage
42. Nasty: stinking
raucous
apothegm
fetid
euphonious
43. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
prosaic
Novitiate
canny
remonstrate
44. Beginner/ Amateur: inexperience person
Fledgling
vacillate
chicanery
synchrounous
45. Criticize/criticism: false injury of good reputation
defamation
expatiate
fatuous
recondite
46. Wisdom
facsimile
fealty
epigram
apocryphal
47. Favoring/ Not impartial: fanatical
flippant
temperate
sincere
doctrinaire
48. Assist
Abet
inimical
bacchanlian
vitiate
49. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
diatribe
Espouse
recondite
fortnight
50. Family: having same ancestry
portentous
consanguine
circumvent
obviate