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SAT Critical Reading Vocab
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Subjects
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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. Short fight between groups (clash=conflict)
clash with
incentive
mime
effusive
2. Money paid regularly to sb as wages
stipend
excommunicate
cognizant
hull
3. To move away sth
cognizant
venue
delve into
displace
4. A bad sense of something will happen
lethargy
tentative
premonition
surpass
5. To suddenly cause sth bad to happen
clump
precipitate
convoluted
writ
6. To break under pressure
venue
lambaste
shear
monotonously
7. To make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way
heirloom
dilution
disrupt
deficit
8. Small and poor in quality
havoc
meager
obsequious
vassal
9. A funny play for the theater based on ridiculous and unlikely situation and events
morale
repudiate
extolling
farce
10. To be worried and anxious
acerbic
prescribed
perturbed
replicate
11. Critical in a direct and rather cruel way
acerbic
bequeath
sodden
rail at
12. How serious - important - large sth is
bombastic
entreat
annex
extent
13. Search inside sth
misconstrue
incentive
placid
delve into
14. Not clear in a person's mind
deplete
vague
metes out
accomplice
15. Nervous and easily frightened
envision
timorous
genial
demolish
16. An animal or a plant of parents from different species
applicable
obtuse
compartmentalize
hybrid
17. (formal - disapproving) using or containing more words than are neede
rarefy
verbose
mournful
glum
18. Full of people moving around in a busy way
fidelity
alias
bustling
able-bodied
19. To pretend to have a particular feeling
proponent
feign
spawn
promiscuous
20. (informal) different from what most people expect
candor
offbeat
utilitarian
ghastly
21. Unexpectedly amusing
coax
droll
spawn
alias
22. To make sth smaller or weak
ghastly
eradication
diminish
chivalry
23. To look like or be similar to another person or thing
spawn
patriarchal
resemble
periphery
24. A situation of destruction - damage and confusion
grant
relinquish
havoc
misconstrue
25. To enjoy or desire much
titillate
dreary
relish
dilution
26. Hurried - especially when this has bad results
alias
agnostic
courtly
hasty
27. To get onto a sheep
haste
embark
altruistic
envision
28. Of many kinds; having great variety
multifarious
pseudonym
altruistic
meager
29. Kind and gentle
stolid
monotonously
benign
illuminate
30. Rude because sth done quickly or using very few words
dilution
curt
acerbic
arbitrary
31. A person who can't control himself to set fire on things
unpalatable
provincial
pyromaniac
deplete
32. A false idea many people believe to be true; a logic false in thinking about sth
fallacy
humility
verbose
upbraid
33. Needing great effort and energy
inept
repulsed
prudence
strenuous
34. Very serious
forlorn
curt
dire
reservoir
35. Extremely complicated and difficult to follow; (formal) having many twits or curves
heirloom
convoluted
rarefy
leaden
36. Not safe and certain; dangerous
subsidize
laconic
hinges on
precarious
37. give up
hasty
misnomer
relinquish
periphery
38. To make sth happen or be produced
exuberant
amorous
mundane
spawn
39. (formal) to start to do sth new or difficult
embark on
erosion
harbinger
offbeat
40. To make unpleasant sound
relish
trivial
jangle
cognizant
41. Talking a lot - especially about unimportant things
able-bodied
undertake
entitle
garrulous
42. The act of conceding
convoluted
concession
farce
vexed
43. Showing much or too much emotion
divulge
addendum
effusive
dilution
44. To keep people - animals or plants alive and healthy by food - etc.
egregious
leaden
nourish
reservoir
45. The fact of caring about the needs and happiness of other people more than your own
wistfully
altruistic
acerbic
serenade
46. (formal) to say in a will that you want sb to have your property - money - etc. after your die.
bestow
bequeath
garrulous
patriarchal
47. Starving
refute
periphery
famished
surpass
48. (man) to sing or play music to a woman of his love outside under the window
prescribed
notion
serenade
indefatigable
49. Believing that everything happened for selfish reasons; being selfish when doing things
monotonously
serenade
cynically
ghastly
50. A highly poisonous chemical
notion
disseminate
cyanide
deprecate