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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): Sharp
mercenary
Mordant
acidulous
specious
2. Poor: hungry greedy
implacable
largess
mercenary
esurient
3. Carousal: wicked
encumber
awry
iniquity
frankness
4. Wandering
teeter
expatiate
decry
fey
5. Greedy:
macabre
imperious
limpid
avaricious
6. Diffcult ot understand: perplexing
rapacious
renitent
enigmatic
mordant
7. Luck: desirable
aberration
optimum
auspice
stultify
8. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): corrotive
gaucherie
probity
mordant
riposte
9. Hesitate: to show doubt
fulsome
sincere
waver
rhetoric
10. Withdrawal/Retreat
recidivism
venerate
erroneous
noxious
11. Criticize/criticism: condemn publicly
ribald
denounce
curmudgeon
lament
12. Criticize/criticism: belitte
elegiac
disparge
pellucid
objurgate
13. Boring: usual
quotidian
vituperation
temporal
fawn
14. Investigate: to analyze
harmonious
cacophony
trepidation
assay
15. Diffcult ot understand: incapable of being analyze
inscrutable
sordid
insidious
apocryphal
16. Hatred: opposite force
capricious
gyrate
anatagonism
laconic
17. Biting (as in wit or temperament): severly sarcastic
vindictive
inert
mordacious
invidious
18. Criticize/criticism: criticize severly
ingenuous
martinet
objurgate
castigate
19. Easy to understand:
acidulous
articulate
expiate
inhibit
20. Boring: to make common by frequent use
disingenuous
dour
unctuous
hackneyed
21. Truth: being true
oblique
verity
Mainstay
aberrant
22. Changing quickly: erractic
Abrupt
portentous
tyro
capricious
23. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): violent condemnation
ascertain
mercurial
capricious
vituperation
24. Truth
intractable
indisputable
dogmatic
apocryphal
25. Time/Duration/Order; indefinetly lon period of time
eon
iconoclast
injurious
labyrinth
26. Pacify/Satisfy
sooth
renege
injurious
scathing
27. Beginner/ Amateur: state of being a beginner
Novitiate
plaintive
quiescent
disparge
28. Embarrass: to feel regret
opprobrium
rue
fey
gainsay
29. Hostile: bad temper
orifice
curmudgeon
consanguine
largess
30. Hostile
perfidy
cirumlocution
antithetic
compendious
31. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
depraved
Curtail
credulous
martinet
32. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
slothful
magnanimous
castigate
trenchant
33. Gaps/Openings: reduction
cirumlocution
abatement
rescind
fatuous
34. Time/Duration/Order: next to last
penultimate
fell
malevolent
probity
35. Gaps/Openings: small narrow space
abnegation
covetous
interjustice
libidinous
36. Gaps/Openings: gap or lacuna
occlued
verbose
counterpart
hiatus
37. Sorrow
recondite
exculpate
plaintive
encomium
38. Disgusting/Offensive:
esoteric
authoritarian
Umbrage
noisome
39. Carousal: obscene
arcane
stultify
waver
salacious
40. Weaken
taciturn
despotic
inhibit
Impetuous
41. Boring: dull
expiate
demise
pedestrian
dissonant
42. Hatred
enmity
distaff
vindictive
putrid
43. Stubborn: resistant
gibe
vindictive
labyrinth
renitent
44. Withdrawal/Retreat: depart quickly
arcane
decamp
sonorous
laconic
45. Denying of self:
obviate
adage
stoic
archaic
46. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
beneicent
sordid
askance
libertine
47. Forgive: to clear
vindicate
Syllabus
Proselyte
prescient
48. Praise
laud/laudatory
simulated
magnanimous
rapacious
49. Praise
covetous
rebuke
intransigent
fawn
50. Hostile: revengeful spirit
ascertain
sordid
vindictive
beneicent