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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. Pacify/Satisfy
defer
mollify
Dudgeon
despotic
2. Wisdom
interregnum
aphorism
defunct
unctuous
3. Gaps/Openings: opening by splitting
Asperity
rift
insipid
threnody
4. Embarrass: remorse for doing wrong
abortive
naive
lethargic
contrition
5. Forgive: to clear
awry
vexing
Munificent
vindicate
6. Boring: without indistinctive
abhorrence
salutary
insipid
tendentious
7. Forgive: to relieve
remonstrate
aspersion
undermine
palliate
8. Forgive: free from guilt
partisan
propitiate
exculpate
Proselyte
9. Criticize/criticism: disapproval
undermine
remonstrate
enmity
canard
10. Bad Mood: Complaining
Querulous
amulet
Abet
turgid
11. Disgusting/Offensive: causing annoyance
rebarbative
recondite
lugubrious
dither
12. Bad Mood: Snappish
facetious
renitent
Wapish
anathema
13. Truth
sincere
rescind
abatement
forlorn
14. Overblown/ Wordy: exaggeration
diurnal
melodious
fortnight
rhetoric
15. Assist
enmity
sinuous
acrimonious
Ancillary
16. Insincere: pretended
sonorous
guile
rapacious
ostensible
17. Falsehood: tellind lies
mendacious/ mendacity
lugubrious
impecunious
oblique
18. Criticize/criticism: to condemn
courageous
wraith
decry
mundane
19. Lazy/ Sluggish: inactive
noisome
guile
anterior
inert
20. Harmful:
abstruse
deleterious
anathema
canny
21. Not a straight line: circuitous movement
meander
calmuny
dither
opprobrium
22. Abbreviated Communication: cut short
Curtail
adventitious
anterior
belittle
23. Copy: perfect embodiment of something
quintessence
truculent
fatuous
mercenary
24. Funny: lacking in seriouness
unctuous
itinerant
Abet
flippant
25. Pacify/Satisfy
aberration
assuage
iniquity
arcane
26. Funny:
dissipated
facetious
aggrandize
opaque
27. Generous/Kind
philanthropic
sooth
destitute
pedestrian
28. Criticize/criticism: regard as less impressive
exacerbate
diffident
belittle
apocryphal
29. Weaken: increase severity
exacerbate
melancholy
gullible
threnody
30. Dictorial: imperious
admonish
peremptory
eloquent
pernicious
31. Death/ Mourning: mournful poem
abrogate
elegy
rebarbative
morose
32. Hesitate: wobble
discursive
teeter
esoteric
careen
33. Copy: Model
noxious
paradigm
demise
tirade
34. Assist
reproof
libertine
Abet
noisome
35. Beginning/Young: beginning to exist
itinerant
exculpate
nascent
rift
36. Sorrow
Neophyte
lugubrious
propitiate
abhorrence
37. Withdrawal/Retreat: retract
specious
Countenance
prevaricate
abjure
38. Abbreviated Communication: brief statement giving general view
obdurate
adventitious
Synopsis
precursor
39. Funny: waggish; humorous
laud/laudatory
canny
asperity
droll
40. Withdrawal/Retreat: temporary inactivity
chortle
loathing
abeyance
Synopsis
41. Hesitate: to waver in opinion
despotic
simper
inexorable
vacillate
42. Denying of self: extreme denial
mollify
succinct
vacillate
ascetic
43. Dictorial: complete obedience
partisan
authoritarian
morose
ersatz
44. Pacify/Satisfy
jocular
appease
veracious
plaintive
45. Funny: to taunt; deride
fallacious
gibe
encumber
Dilettante
46. Nasty
aphorism
libertine
circumvent
noxious
47. Timid/timidity: cowardly
disingenuous
eulogize
nascent
craven
48. Falsehood: deception
chicanery
deride/ derisive
implacable
exacerbate
49. Copy: duplication
destitute
encomium
noxious
counterpart
50. Stubborn: not obedient
recalcitrant
mendacious/ mendacity
expatiate
bombastic