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SAT Critical Reading Vocab
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sat
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Unfriendly and aggressive
glowing
belligerent
magnify
feign
2. Something that encourages you to do sth
bustling
compile
incentive
warily
3. All the animal living in an area or in a particular period of history
droll
rescind
fauna
flimsy
4. Title or set of instructions of book or exam
progenitor
obsequious
rubric
magnify
5. To make sth happen or be produced
spawn
pseudonym
ghastly
eradication
6. Very high (loft=attic)
monotonously
genial
captive
lofty
7. Most important and noticeable
miserly
salient
exterminate
havoc
8. To look like or be similar to another person or thing
offbeat
prescribed
patron
resemble
9. Too small; (of a person) hating to spend money
displace
perturbed
lambaste
miserly
10. A false idea many people believe to be true; a logic false in thinking about sth
glowing
fallacy
enthrall with
prescribed
11. To have foretold vision
relish
stipend
omit
envision
12. Using only a few words to say sth
laconic
heirloom
trivial
frugal
13. A series of unpleasant things that happen
prudence
delve into
rash
distraught
14. Very angry
applicable
divulge
incensed
annex
15. To fill with water and sink; to fail because of a particular problem
instrumental
probity
impetus
founder
16. A gradual decline of sth
rout
erosion
dearth
placate
17. Needing great effort and energy
upbraid
bequeath
strenuous
dexterous
18. (formal) to prove that sth is wrong; to say that sth is not true or fair
incentive
farce
fidelity
refute
19. To perform a play or act a part in a play; to pass a law
lofty
enact
displace
monetary
20. That can be done; that will be successful (= feasible); (biology) capable of developing and surviving independently
erosion
viable
able-bodied
undertake
21. How serious - important - large sth is
lambaste
hasty
extent
preeminent
22. Extremely dangerous or harmful and quick to have a n effect
virulent
chivalry
frugal
prompt
23. A situation of earning less than owed of spent
incentive
deficit
precarious
penchant
24. Violent and brutal
perturbed
reapportion
ascetic
viciously
25. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
meager
exuberant
benchmark
surpass
26. (formal) to understand sb's words or action wrongly
salutary
misconstrue
humility
wistfully
27. An animal or a plant of parents from different species
hybrid
prevalent
addendum
aggravate
28. A funny play for the theater based on ridiculous and unlikely situation and events
trivial
vassal
benchmark
farce
29. Not showing much emotion or interest; remaining always the same and not reacting or changing
insinuate
penchant
stolid
jangle
30. Hurried - especially when this has bad results
hasty
leaden
rout
niche
31. To make sth bigger - louder - stronger
misconstrue
magnify
integrity
venue
32. A political situation in which people are angry and likely to pretest or fight
mercenary
unrest
entitle
hierarchical
33. Unpleasant and not easy to accept
imprudence
periphery
unpalatable
jangle
34. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
ascetic
prompt
accomplice
probity
35. To make sth into catalogue
bequeath
demolish
catalogue
stolid
36. In syncopated rhythm the strong beats are made weak and the weak beats are made strong
syncopated
pyromaniac
titillate
trivial
37. To accept sth wrong or treat it as it is not serious
vexed
cyanide
procure
condone
38. (literary) to increase then decrease in strength - importance - etc. over a period of time
deficit
chivalry
wax and wane
lanky
39. Sensible and careful when you make judgments and decisions - avoiding unnecessary risks
prudence
glowing
totter
timorous
40. To give sb the right to do sth
entitle
venerate
retelling
plummet
41. Never changing
genial
disseminate
unvarying
illuminate
42. A person who gives money or other help to a person or an organization
benefactor
tentative
cognizant
salutary
43. Rule as emperor - king - or queen
monetary
reign over
feral
fallacy
44. To strongly criticize sb/sth that you think is wrong - illegal - etc.
harbinger
subvert
denounce
reticent
45. To become gradually weaker or less important
syncopated
wane
writ
able-bodied
46. Having a good effect on sb/sth - though often seeming unpleasant
hierarchical
surpass
repulsed
salutary
47. Not clear in a person's mind
vague
retelling
venerate
spurious
48. Dirty of any kind
grudgingly
flimsy
catalogue
deprecate
49. Being lack of variety
leaden
monotony
arid
sole
50. Not wise or sensible
strenuous
imprudence
mercenary
reapportion