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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
anterior
caustic
Abridge
obloquy
2. Overblown/ Wordy:
spartan
diurnal
harrangue
periphrastic
3. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
Proselyte
anachronism
equitable
scathing
4. Nag: to plead
remonstrate
accolade
misanthropic
deride/ derisive
5. Weaken
salacious
auspice
adulterate
Impetuous
6. Prevent/Obstruct
Callow
imperious
vexing
impede
7. Poor: lacking food
turpitude
indigent
aphorism
remonstrate
8. Family: a descendant
raillery
scion
satiate
impede
9. Luck: desirable
lull
optimum
fissure
libidinous
10. Act quickly- quickly and suddenly
dogmatic
raucous
Headlong
injurious
11. Sorrow; grief
dolor
providental
putrid
fetid
12. Boring: to make common by frequent use
hackneyed
torpid
anomaly
trenchant
13. Terse: brief
penultimate
awry
pithy
erroneous
14. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
fissure
Abrupt
axiom
impede
15. Diffcult ot understand: to confuse
asperity
bemusing
perfidious
synchrounous
16. Generous/Kind: generous in forgiving
canard
calmuny
enervate
magnanimous
17. Praise
aberration
obsequies
venerate
impugn
18. Prevent/Obstruct
ostensible
disingenuous
remission
discomfort
19. Timid/timidity
pusillanimous
belabor
Apace
rebarbative
20. Funny: a silly smile
fallacious
ludicrous
simper
acclaim
21. Disgusting/Offensive:
obsequies
Precipiate
noisome
orifice
22. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
rift
Advocate
abnegate
mollify
23. Assist
erudite
mercenary
Countenance
inimical
24. Denying of self: extreme denial
truculent
ascetic
amulet
din
25. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): scornful
sardonic
trenchant
penurious
Neophyte
26. Innocent/ Inexperienced: innocent
auspice
epoch
ingenuous
Corroborate
27. Act quickly
accolade
Abrupt
turpitude
mitigate
28. Assist
Ancillary
Abrupt
mitigate
Proselyte
29. Beginning/Young: immature/inexperience
spartan
aggrandize
Callow
threnody
30. Criticize/criticism: attack vehemently with words
precursor
exculpate
fortnight
inveigh
31. Funny: waggish; humorous
diatribe
exacerbate
droll
tyrannical
32. Praise: honor
epigram
epoch
aggrandize
Sustenance
33. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
rhetoric
abhorrence
altrustic
obviate
34. Smart/Learned: having keen vision
melancholy
perspicacious
volatile
tendentious
35. Gaps/Openings: reduction
esoteric
abatement
exculpate
depraved
36. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
revile
Neophyte
obscure
pellucid
37. Embarrass: quality of being different
opaque
diffidence
belabor
chagrin
38. Nag: long speech
periphrastic
harrangue
evident
raillery
39. Weaken: elminate
wraith
perspicacious
cadaver
obviate
40. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
curt
Terse
slake
acerbic
41. Terse
Mainstay
despotic
vindictive
succinct
42. Weaken
enervate
Fledgling
Terse
anachronism
43. Hatred
enmity
ephemeral
taciturn
duplicity
44. Stubborn:
intractable
reprove
imperious
prescient
45. Embarrass: humiliation
guile
peripatetic
chagrin
peremptory
46. Time/Duration/Order: to be older date than
antedate
peripatetic
periphrastic
trepidation
47. Not a straight line: round about
Pique
ciruitous
pernicious
diatribe
48. Act quickly
contrition
Apace
tirade
diurnal
49. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless)
fissure
minatory
cirumlocution
fell
50. Not a straight line: diverging from a straight line
meander
consanguine
oblique
spurious