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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. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
propitiate
caustic
banal
recidivism
2. Luck: marvelous
anatagonism
Umbrage
reprobate
portentous
3. Death/ Mourning: mourn deeply
bemusing
inhibit
vacillate
lament
4. Weaken: elminate
ambulatory
obviate
interjustice
unctuous
5. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
misanthropic
decry
acerbic
vindictive
6. Not a straight line: rotartory movement
mercenary
vortex
scion
sordid
7. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
prosaic
grandiloquent
zealot
quintessence
8. Greedy: acting merely for money
Advocate
penultimate
fey
mercenary
9. Family: biologically ancestor
Cursory
progenitor
quintessence
droll
10. Hatred
adage
wraith
remonstrate
loathing
11. Funny: lacking in seriouness
clement
flippant
careen
esoteric
12. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
vacillate
pithy
auspice
absolve
13. Denying of self:
renege
temperate
abnegate
emulate
14. Funny
doleful
noisome
ludicrous
Mainstay
15. Falsehood: misleading
indolent
periphrastic
fallacious
sententious
16. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
prognosticate
bereave
millennium
fulsome
17. Criticize/criticism: assail by words
antithetic
dither
impugn
obdurate
18. Copy: not natural
peripatetic
minatory
rebuke
factitious
19. Criticize/criticism : deragatory criticism
tirade
portentous
disingenuous
aspersion
20. Falsehood: deception
chagrin
novitiate
periphrastic
chicanery
21. Nasty: stinking
hackneyed
axiom
equity
fetid
22. Copy: likness
simulated
lethargic
obscure
spurious
23. Assist: Example Stalwart light house
strident
gainsay
Stalwart
quotidian
24. Time/Duration/Order: alteration btwn day and night condition
fratricide
inimical
diurnal
noisome
25. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
meander
expiate
intractable
philanthropic
26. Harmful: threatening
din
riposte
minatory
jocular
27. Stubborn: improper
Inchoate
bacchanlian
untoward
askance
28. Funny: waggish
jocular
putrid
Burgeoning
truism
29. Death/ Mourning: dead body
equitable
eon
cadaver
exonerate
30. Stubborn: unalterable
enervate
decry
waver
inexorable
31. Investigate: examine in detail
Compendium
perspicacious
probity
peruse
32. Overblown/ Wordy: being pompous
abrogate
Mordant
grandiloquent
Apace
33. Boring: dull
mendacious/ mendacity
obsequies
pedestrian
turbid
34. Bad Mood: Anger
reprobate
Fledgling
opprobrium
Dudgeon
35. Nag: to plead
remonstrate
rue
slake
diffidence
36. Equal: fairness
tyro
respite
equitable
kismet
37. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
peripatetic
imperious
enjoin
contrition
38. Overblown/ Wordy: long/ wordy
diffidence
labyrinth
prolix
acclaim
39. Sorrow: mournful
Burgeoning
prosaic
Apace
doleful
40. Embarrass: humiliation
despotic
absolve
chagrin
noxious
41. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
sonorous
decry
rent
dissemble
42. Harmful
salubrious
melancholy
implacable
inimical
43. Weaken
probity
detestation
undermine
Petulant
44. Truth: cannot be doubted
salacious
serrated
specious
indubitable
45. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
retrograde
diatribe
equitable
appease
46. Denying of self:
arcane
reproof
spartan
berate
47. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
ciruitous
malice
anachronism
venal
48. Luck: fate
astute
kismet
eulogize
mordacious
49. Investigate: to analyze
mendacious/ mendacity
prognosticate
auspicious
assay
50. Falsehood: imitated deceptively
dictum
feigned
peruse
Proponet