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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. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
pusillanimous
appease
libertine
debauchery
2. Greedy
vexing
Abet
miserly
Headlong
3. Denying of self: to hold oneself back
hegemonic
courageous
rue
abstain
4. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
compunction
abjure
inveigh
garrulous
5. Family: a descendant
hector
augur
fratricide
scion
6. Family: marriage
exhort
despotic
conjugal
evident
7. Falsehood: serving as a substitute
asperity
ersatz
recalcitrant
penurious
8. Praise: honor
cogent
abnegation
fetid
aggrandize
9. Forgive: free from guilt
dissonant
exonerate
beneicent
obscure
10. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
remonstrate
bromide
accolade
platitude
11. Denying of self:
anterior
stoic
iniquity
indigent
12. Withdrawal/Retreat; temporary decrease
opprobrium
remission
decry
mordacious
13. Beginning/Young: not fully developed
unstinting
turgid
Inchoate
abnegate
14. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
specious
dissonant
placate
trepidation
15. Generous/Kind
lament
laud/laudatory
philanthropic
emulate
16. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
recant
salubrious
vacillate
courageous
17. Eccentric/ dissimilar: attack beliefs based on error of superstition
craven
hinder
iconoclast
assuage
18. Smart/Learned
demise
canny
inert
riposte
19. Funny: to taunt; deride
revile
ambulatory
gibe
abatement
20. Copy: duplication
Proponet
oblique
counterpart
misanthropic
21. Carousal
perfidy
verity
defunct
bacchanlian
22. Generous/Kind: compassionate
clement
insipid
lament
iconoclast
23. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
Mainstay
Curtail
ambulatory
wraith
24. Nag: to plead
forage
obdurate
remonstrate
inhibit
25. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): diffcult
astute
diffidence
dour
morose
26. Wisdom: trite saying
renitent
prevaricate
bromide
salubrious
27. Greedy: bribery
rescind
venal
minatory
craven
28. Criticize/criticism: abusive language
inhibit
obloquy
peremptory
Audacious
29. Eccentric/ dissimilar: not fitting in a common type
anomalous
diurnal
slake
munificent
30. Criticize/criticism: reprimand
esoteric
facsimile
rebuke
reproof
31. Pleasant-Sounding
compunction
inveigh
euphonious
Curtail
32. Pacify/Satisfy: more satisfactory
ameliorate
hector
indolent
Apace
33. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
orifice
untoward
disconsolate
garrulous
34. Funny: waggish; humorous
peruse
odium
droll
fratricide
35. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
eulogize
fetter
trite
penultimate
36. Terse: using few words
prosaic
laconic
doleful
Countenance
37. Smart/Learned: clever
ludicrous
Tyro
astute
frankness
38. Beginner/ Amateur: beginner in learning anything
obdurate
eclectic
Tyro
accolade
39. Investigate: to estimate value
insidious
appraise
chagrin
emulate
40. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
malice
platitude
prosaic
moribound
41. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
malevolent
abrogate
banal
torpid
42. Criticize/criticism: abuse
pillory
adulterate
obsitnate
epoch
43. Weaken
philanthropic
dither
enervate
lull
44. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
orifice
demur
demise
bombastic
45. Criticize/criticism: berate harshly
lambaste
credulous
expiate
pettish
46. Timid/timidity
rancor
pusillanimous
disconsolate
detestation
47. Not a straight line: to go around
mundane
phlegmatic
gaucherie
circumvent
48. Weaken: increase severity
imperious
wraith
exacerbate
despotic
49. Time/Duration/Order
erroneous
perfidious
anomalous
temporal
50. Truth: being true
epigram
verity
lull
progenitor