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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. Revoke; to sate that a law - contract - decision - etc. is no longer valid
egregious
garrulous
rescind
subtle
2. Rule as emperor - king - or queen
reign over
prevalent
ungainly
acerbic
3. To take control of a country - region - etc - especially by force
conglomeration
genial
forlorn
annex
4. A fact or an event in nature or society - especially one that is not fully understand
accomplice
embark
exterminate
phenomenon
5. To pretend to have a particular feeling
feign
vassal
jangle
salient
6. A solider who will fight for any country or group that offers payment
proponent
founder
feral
mercenary
7. To make sb less angry about sth
farce
plummet
placate
chock back
8. (informal) different from what most people expect
agnostic
instrumental
plummet
offbeat
9. Extremely polite and full of respect - especially in an old-fashioned way
diminish
courtly
offbeat
wistfully
10. To get info or reaction - especially with difficulty
compartmentalize
fidelity
elicited
imprudence
11. To make into compartment (room)
bequeath
incensed
sole
compartmentalize
12. Showing sexual desire and love towards sb
rail at
amorous
wistfully
entrench
13. (formal) to understand sb's words or action wrongly
misconstrue
prescribed
excommunicate
hinges on
14. Full of people moving around in a busy way
arid
envision
mementos
bustling
15. To move away sth
displace
demolish
pseudonym
impetus
16. Ambiguous
provincial
equivocal
redundant
impetus
17. To have pity on sth you want to have that you used to have
prudence
lamentable
nourish
wistfully
18. Full of energy - excitement and happiness
barrage
exuberant
rejoinder
diminish
19. (man) to sing or play music to a woman of his love outside under the window
serenade
reluctant
provincial
reign over
20. Unexpectedly amusing
rescind
displace
droll
unpalatable
21. (formal) to shine light on sth; = clarify; = light up
illuminate
vague
misnomer
voluminous
22. A situation of earning less than owed of spent
bustling
deficit
subtle
demolish
23. Careful when dealing with sb/sth because you think that there may be a danger or problem
notion
warily
rail at
hinges on
24. To produce a book - list - report - etc. by bringing together different items - articles - songs - etc.
addendum
spawn
compile
blistering
25. Never changing therefore boring
havoc
lanky
monotonously
cessation
26. To move in an awkward way - pushing people around out of the way or crash into them
barge
extolling
wane
chivalry
27. Extremely wet
sodden
ration
vague
monotony
28. To limit the amount of sth that sb is allowed to have
rhetoric
stipend
perturbed
ration
29. A legal document from a court of order
dreary
eradication
writ
laconic
30. (formal - disapproving) using or containing more words than are neede
disseminate
promiscuous
phenomenon
verbose
31. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
mime
incentive
havoc
benchmark
32. Cheerful and friendly
promiscuous
editorial
prescribed
genial
33. An indirect remark about sb/sth - usually suggesting sth bad or rude.
beguile
innuendo
repudiate
captive
34. To put your feet down noisily and heavily as you walk
serenade
clump
grudgingly
exterminate
35. (formal - disapproving) speech or writing that is intended to influence people - but that is not completely honest or sincere
equivocal
obtuse
timorous
rhetoric
36. To enjoy or desire much
unvarying
wistfully
venerate
relish
37. Souvenir
periphery
mementos
ungainly
retelling
38. The stopping of sth; giving birth to baby by taking them out of the mother through a surgery
vexed
metes out
cessation
barge
39. That can be said to be true in the case of sb/sth
premonition
curt
applicable
obtuse
40. (of the moon) to seem to get gradually bigger until its full form is visible
garrulous
refute
spurious
wax
41. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
ascetic
vexed
benign
disseminate
42. Official of not to do/pay what you normally have to
exemption
grin
relish
patriarchal
43. To stop sb do sth from his atempt
thwart
salutary
fauna
persistently
44. To deal with a problem or difficult situation
provincial
confront
metes out
pretentious
45. To make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse (=worsen)
annex
placid
aggravate
genial
46. Not needed or useful
shear
redundant
lofty
grin
47. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
totter
prudence
enthrall with
multifarious
48. The act of conceding
resemble
lamentable
topography
concession
49. Clever at understanding and making judgments about
sturdy
repudiate
sumptuous
enthrall with
50. Very large
voluminous
droll
obsequious
sumptuous