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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. Abbreviated Communication: going rapidly over something
Cursory
Abet
bereave
beneficial
2. Innocent/ Inexperienced: state of being novice
ingenuous
debauchery
disingenuous
novitiate
3. Carousal: corrupt
eloquent
lambaste
depraved
arcane
4. Sorrow: hopelessly unhappy
disconsolate
abortive
Burgeoning
laconic
5. Assist-To make more clear
odious
Corroborate
cavil
mordant
6. Investigate: to estimate value
baneful
disingenuous
respite
appraise
7. Funny: waggish
peripatetic
fortuitous
jocular
moribound
8. Funny
ludicrous
factitious
unctuous
acquit
9. Boring: lack of originality
banal
Abrupt
morose
arcane
10. Time/Duration/Order: 1000 year
intransigent
millennium
adage
untoward
11. Disgusting/Offensive: stinking
propitiate
forage
fetid
Abridge
12. Time/Duration/Order: occuring at the same time
sincere
serrated
odium
synchrounous
13. Wisdom
dictum
mundane
acerbic
archaic
14. Hardhearted (unmerciful; pitiless): injurious
laud/laudatory
anomaly
scathing
aperture
15. Stubborn
quintessence
exacerbate
obsitnate
verbose
16. Forgive: free from guilt
absolve
gibe
perfidy
precursor
17. Not a straight line: move sideways
sidle
penultimate
salubrious
reprehend
18. Carousal: full of sexual act
antithetic
perfidious
libidinous
tirade
19. Prevent/Obstruct
ingenuous
hector
sooth
impede
20. Criticize/criticism: harsh abusive language
avaricious
pusillanimous
vituperate
retrograde
21. Not a straight line: turn to side
stoic
careen
awry
inert
22. Criticize/criticism: vehement speech
providental
tirade
lugubrious
interjustice
23. Truth: speaking the truth
cryptic
veracious
nascent
Espouse
24. Hatred: opposite force
ingenuous
anatagonism
abhorrence
prolix
25. Falsehood: misleading
vituperate
Countenance
fallacious
defile
26. Lazy/ Sluggish: slothful
largess
gibe
indolent
reprove
27. Truth: sincere in speech
fervid
pedestrian
candor/candid
elegiac
28. Predict
prescient
abhorrence
miserly
adage
29. Harsh-Sounding: making harsh sound
lament
nascent
strident
noxious
30. Withdrawal/Retreat: to put aside
itinerant
melancholy
forlorn
abrogate
31. Praise
periphrastic
turgid
acerbic
venerate
32. Prevent/Obstruct
bemusing
encumber
lambaste
curmudgeon
33. Copy: Model
sidle
dissemble
intransigent
paradigm
34. Biting (as in wit or temperament): Harsh temper
bromide
acerbic
exhort
castigate
35. Easy to understand: clear
fatuous
hackneyed
authoritarian
lucid
36. Bad Mood: Cranky
Bilious
platitude
moribound
Countenance
37. Wisdom: self truth requires no proof
objurgate
axiom
askance
acerbic
38. Criticize/criticism: to speak abusively
hinder
revile
dissemble
depraved
39. Carousal: shameful
turpitude
Corroborate
chagrin
limpid
40. Weaken
axiom
Novitiate
taciturn
vitiate
41. Greedy: acting merely for money
mercenary
fatuous
awry
grandiloquent
42. Easy to understand
eloquent
abatement
Callow
sententious
43. Criticize/criticism: sharply abusive
emulate
diatribe
abatement
ephemeral
44. Abbreviated Communication: effectively concise; brief
propitiate
Terse
inhibit
fulsome
45. Lazy/ Sluggish
peripatetic
phlegmatic
Impetuous
melodious
46. Harmful
prevaricate
insidious
decry
adage
47. Death/ Mourning: to deprive by death
bereave
obscure
indolent
tendentious
48. Not a straight line: to move in a circle
elegy
gyrate
encomium
inert
49. Assist
Abet
placate
Cursory
undulating
50. Hatred: inflict harm bc of dislike
harrangue
chicanery
malice
oscillate