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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
indigenous
formality
curt
frugal
2. give up
ghastly
relinquish
displace
incensed
3. To make into compartment (room)
preeminent
sodden
compartmentalize
chock back
4. Not define or certain because you may want to change it later; hesitant
tentative
rhetoric
unvarying
blistering
5. Hesitating before doing sth because you don't want to do it or because you aren't sure that if it's the right thing to do
rail at
subvert
reluctant
jangle
6. Unpleasant and not easy to accept
precarious
unpalatable
flimsy
bout
7. Not easily irritated
placid
pyromaniac
incentive
dexterous
8. To give sb the right to do sth
entitle
stipend
conventional
impetus
9. Supply of bullets
ammunition
leaden
subvert
benign
10. The outer edge of a particular area
compartmentalize
subtle
periphery
barrage
11. Reveal a secret
bustling
cynically
grin
divulge
12. A performance using gestures and body movements without words
mime
grudgingly
ascetic
hinges on
13. (formal - disapproving) speech or writing that is intended to influence people - but that is not completely honest or sincere
incensed
hybrid
superfluous
rhetoric
14. To try hard not to show your feelings
entitle
chock back
concession
plummet
15. Too small; (of a person) hating to spend money
miserly
mundane
integrity
captive
16. To become gradually weaker or less important
voluminous
wane
feign
venue
17. To make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way
cede
disrupt
lamentable
viscous
18. Regulated
lanky
prescribed
bequeath
displace
19. A person who helps in criminal incidents
thwart
explicitly
unrest
accomplice
20. (adj.) a problem that is difficult to deal wit
verbose
vexed
pseudonym
embark
21. Having many sexual partners; taking from a wide range of sources - especially without careful thought
patriarchal
stipend
promiscuous
grudgingly
22. To make sb less angry about sth
candor
placate
instrumental
indefatigable
23. Never changing
bestow
mournful
unvarying
repulsed
24. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
demolish
ascetic
bequeath
beguile
25. Outstanding; greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
plummet
hasty
preeminent
resemble
26. (formal) to shine light on sth; = clarify; = light up
alias
illuminate
sturdy
conventional
27. Very high (loft=attic)
penchant
lofty
droll
bestow
28. Incompetent; not having the skill
humanitarian
inept
refute
rarefy
29. Clear and easy to understand
superfluous
instrumental
explicitly
jangle
30. Plunge
plummet
sole
laconic
mercenary
31. Unwilling to tell people about things
erosion
sturdy
reticent
courtly
32. Not enough
scanty
venue
haste
catalogue
33. A fragrant extract or essential oil obtained from the root of an Indian grass - used in perfumery and aromatherapy
multifarious
vetiver
embark
viciously
34. Kind and gentle
editorial
benign
viable
warily
35. Showing much or too much emotion
benefactor
unvarying
illuminate
effusive
36. Something that encourage a process or activity
benchmark
entreat
impetus
grin
37. An animal or a plant of parents from different species
plummet
jangle
hybrid
catalogue
38. Dirty of any kind
grudgingly
chock back
trivial
subtle
39. Being lack of variety
pantomime
monotony
strenuous
frugal
40. An idea - a belief or an understanding of shth
barrage
notion
coax
demolish
41. A cranky old person
wax and wane
curmudgeon
dire
writ
42. (of a liquid) thick and sticky; not flowing freely
viscous
strenuous
pseudonym
amorous
43. Revoke; to sate that a law - contract - decision - etc. is no longer valid
warily
rescind
vetiver
persistently
44. To limit the amount of sth that sb is allowed to have
pseudonym
ration
nourish
explicitly
45. A situation of earning less than owed of spent
sturdy
deficit
reign over
unrest
46. Starving
bombastic
sodden
famished
mirth
47. To punish by officially kick sb out of a Christian Church
verbose
stipend
fauna
excommunicate
48. To pretend to have a particular feeling
grant
subvert
editorial
feign
49. (disapproving) to be slow and unwilling to understand sth
obtuse
discreet
alias
syncopated
50. Rule as emperor - king - or queen
misconstrue
conventional
reign over
bustling