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SAT Critical Reading Vocab
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sat
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logic-and-reasoning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To make into compartment (room)
compartmentalize
vetiver
perturbed
dilution
2. Being lack of variety
repulsed
glowing
mime
monotony
3. A reply - especially a quick critical or amusing
demolish
rejoinder
lethargy
envision
4. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
fallacy
grudgingly
benchmark
voluminous
5. A person who can't control himself to set fire on things
pyromaniac
prompt
virulent
cyanide
6. A code that knights adopted in the late Middle Ages; requiring them to be brave - loyal and true to their word; they had to fight fairly in battle
undertake
disseminate
multifarious
chivalry
7. The stopping of sth; giving birth to baby by taking them out of the mother through a surgery
cessation
stipend
enthrall with
voluminous
8. To talk sb into gently
wistfully
coax
farce
misnomer
9. Supply of bullets
mementos
curt
miserly
ammunition
10. A lack of sth
reapportion
titillate
dearth
elicited
11. Plunge
leaden
deplete
plummet
prevalent
12. Rule d and controlled by men
laconic
reign over
expatriate
patriarchal
13. (adj.) a problem that is difficult to deal wit
vexed
cede
lofty
patriarchal
14. Small and poor in quality
meager
enact
entitle
conventional
15. The act of conceding
criteria
concession
progenitor
plummet
16. To spread information - knowledge - etc - so that it reaches many people
instrumental
utilitarian
equivocal
disseminate
17. To agree to give sb what they ask for especially formal or legal permission to do sth
grant
miserly
ascetic
superfluous
18. (usually plural) a thing you must do as a formal or official part of a legal process - a social situation - etc - (usually singular) a thing - that you must do as part of an official progress - but which has little meaning and will not affect what ha
nourish
liberator
formality
famished
19. Violent and brutal
subsidize
viciously
eradication
mercenary
20. Cheerful and friendly
altruistic
diminish
warily
genial
21. To refuse to accept sth (=reject)
instrumental
warily
repudiate
haste
22. Not clear in a person's mind
curmudgeon
wax
hull
vague
23. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
condone
indigenous
concession
extolling
24. (of the moon) to seem to get gradually bigger until its full form is visible
benchmark
lofty
wax
patron
25. Full of energy - excitement and happiness
exuberant
humanitarian
totter
notion
26. Something that encourages you to do sth
rejoinder
chock back
incentive
utilitarian
27. Very expensive and looking very impressive
prevalent
sumptuous
misconstrue
prudence
28. Unfriendly and aggressive
instrumental
metes out
venerate
belligerent
29. A highly poisonous chemical
discreet
acerbic
cyanide
prevalent
30. Not enough
viable
scanty
barrage
unrest
31. To limit the amount of sth that sb is allowed to have
resemble
ration
altruistic
leaden
32. A cranky old person
retelling
curmudgeon
miserly
cede
33. undermine -> to make sth - especially sb's confidence or authority - gradually weaker or less effective
subvert
exterminate
benign
enact
34. Never changing therefore boring
barrage
monotonously
reapportion
ration
35. Unexpectedly amusing
droll
incentive
seedy
haste
36. The fact of caring about the needs and happiness of other people more than your own
utilitarian
indefatigable
rash
altruistic
37. To make sb less angry about sth
thwart
lambaste
placate
ascetic
38. Only; single
morale
sole
tentative
assortment
39. To give sb the right to do sth
prompt
entitle
rhetoric
omit
40. A bad sense of something will happen
convoluted
rescind
premonition
placid
41. Sad - quite and unhappy
writ
obsequious
precarious
glum
42. Extremely complicated and difficult to follow; (formal) having many twits or curves
reservoir
courtly
imprudence
convoluted
43. Careful in what you say or do to keep sth secret
droll
timorous
benign
discreet
44. A fake name of a criminal or actor
conceal
alias
demolish
blatant
45. Very sad
flimsy
grin
magnify
mournful
46. To strongly criticize sb/sth that you think is wrong - illegal - etc.
denounce
agnostic
probity
ungainly
47. Very serious
dire
bout
mementos
placate
48. A series of unpleasant things that happen
rash
beguile
compartmentalize
misnomer
49. (informal) different from what most people expect
periphery
offbeat
applicable
unvarying
50. To smile widely
voluminous
concession
grin
hybrid