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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. Insincere: moralistic fervor
miserly
inert
orifice
unctuous
2. Time/Duration/Order: going before in time
riposte
ostensible
courageous
anterior
3. Gaps/Openings: opening of a tuberent
Abridge
lugubrious
orifice
verbose
4. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
redress
vindicate
Curtail
chortle
5. Praise
mordant
eulogize
truism
venerate
6. Withdrawal/Retreat
mercenary
demur
ardor/ ardent
asperity
7. Pleasant-Sounding
melodious
vicarious
fatuous
vortex
8. Falsehood: unclear expression to decieve
equivocate
Proselyte
Synopsis
mercenary
9. Prevent/Obstruct
contrition
meander
rue
encumber
10. Weaken
ephemeral
adulterate
enjoin
encumber
11. Timid/timidity
Dudgeon
anomaly
pusillanimous
indolent
12. Criticize/criticism: belitte
inhibit
disparge
pedestrian
lethargic
13. Sorrow; grief
Wapish
fulsome
rue
dolor
14. Weaken
stultify
garrulous
ludicrous
melancholy
15. Pacify/Satisfy: appease
compendious
placate
vituperate
feigned
16. Truth
indisputable
esoteric
tirade
Stalwart
17. Hatred: opposite force
anatagonism
dolorous
contrition
probity
18. Luck: something by chance
verbose
adventitious
Novitiate
pettish
19. Harsh-Sounding: loud noise
baleful
temperate
abjure
din
20. Carousal: person who is sexually unrestrained
vitriolic
torpid
libertine
probity
21. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
recidivism
revile
turgid
odium
22. Investigate: examine in detail
tantamount
ambiguous
peruse
exonerate
23. Family: person who kill his or her brother
Headlong
fratricide
levity
Proponet
24. Funny: waggish; humorous
clement
sententious
droll
impede
25. Wisdom: proverb
propitiate
ostensible
lambaste
adage
26. Stubborn
obdurate
Corroborate
beneicent
decry
27. Boring: to make common by frequent use
consanguine
hackneyed
absolve
craven
28. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): violent condemnation
clement
vituperation
hector
impecunious
29. Wandering
Wapish
anterior
iniquity
forage
30. Family: having same ancestry
epoch
perfidious
inhibit
consanguine
31. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
harrangue
Bolster
disconsolate
libertine
32. Hatred: intense dislike
propitiate
sinuous
odium
simulated
33. Nasty
noisome
impede
canny
factitious
34. Favoring/ Not impartial: bias
tendentious
debauchery
mordacious
untoward
35. Predict
diffidence
ingenuous
prognosticate
absolve
36. Denying of self:
indubitable
idiosyncrasy
impecunious
spartan
37. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): miserable
satiate
anathema
interjustice
baleful
38. Greedy: inordinately greedy
accolade
sardonic
rapacious
malevolent
39. Predict: a favorable sign
teeter
auspice
miserly
anachronism
40. Overblown/ Wordy: talkative
sincere
untoward
obscure
loquacious
41. Generous/Kind: devoted to welfare of others
disingenuous
implacable
altrustic
acquit
42. Denying of self:
objurgate
minatory
stoic
Audacious
43. Pacify/Satisfy
vituperate
absolve
sooth
venal
44. Denying of self: extreme denial
vituperate
Fledgling
perspicacious
ascetic
45. Unusual: perculiar manner
recreant
idiosyncrasy
riposte
obscure
46. Not a straight line: having curves/ bends
exacerbate
expiate
nascent
sinuous
47. Embarrass: quality of being different
itinerant
diffidence
equitable
caustic
48. Disgusting/ Offensive: to make dirty
destitute
recalcitrant
defile
temporal
49. Falsehood: deception
chicanery
ingenuous
Ancillary
debauchery
50. Generous/Kind: kindness
inimical
beneicent
apothegm
aggrandize