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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. To put your feet down noisily and heavily as you walk
relinquish
dire
laconic
clump
2. Short fight between groups (clash=conflict)
innuendo
misnomer
clash with
lanky
3. A comfortable or suitable role - job - way of life - etc.
subtle
founder
reservoir
niche
4. Sad - quite and unhappy
glum
applicable
erosion
wax
5. To make sth bigger - louder - stronger
superfluous
misnomer
perturbed
magnify
6. (formal - approving) never giving up or getting tired of doing st
entrench
farce
sole
indefatigable
7. To depend on something
hinges on
hull
vexed
equivocal
8. To refuse - reject in a proud way
spurn
curt
chock back
persistently
9. Full of people moving around in a busy way
farce
bustling
captive
arbitrary
10. To move in an awkward way - pushing people around out of the way or crash into them
prevalent
barge
innuendo
dilution
11. To take control of a country - region - etc - especially by force
accomplice
bustling
harbinger
annex
12. Attack or criticize sb/sth severely on public
embark on
lambaste
proponent
cynically
13. How serious - important - large sth is
superfluous
dilution
extent
viscous
14. Not enough
garrulous
resemble
scanty
pyromaniac
15. To become gradually weaker or less important
criteria
utilitarian
exemption
wane
16. Extremely bad
egregious
perturbed
utilitarian
wane
17. To leave out
dearth
omit
flimsy
lambaste
18. A fact or an event in nature or society - especially one that is not fully understand
phenomenon
chock back
monotonously
lamentable
19. The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
humility
exterminate
morale
candor
20. Careful when dealing with sb/sth because you think that there may be a danger or problem
confront
laconic
warily
notion
21. Unwilling to tell people about things
subsidize
havoc
reticent
agnostic
22. To make sth smaller or weak
havoc
diminish
arsonist
totter
23. The quality of being completely honest
conjecture
ammunition
probity
mundane
24. A false idea many people believe to be true; a logic false in thinking about sth
viscous
fallacy
displace
monotonously
25. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
enact
ascetic
bustling
ration
26. To suddenly cause sth bad to happen
monetary
periphery
misconstrue
precipitate
27. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
repulsed
pseudonym
inept
rarefy
28. A cranky old person
morale
dire
curmudgeon
hinges on
29. (formal) knowledge or understanding of sth
cognizant
extolling
explicitly
dire
30. Not seeming to be based on a reason - system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair
seedy
arbitrary
fallacy
vassal
31. (formal - disapproving) using or containing more words than are neede
verbose
conjecture
incentive
spurn
32. Physically strong and healthy
titillate
rhetoric
able-bodied
founder
33. An important article in newspaper that express the editor's opinion
scanty
aggravate
editorial
havoc
34. Name or word that is not accurate or appropriate
egregious
misnomer
progenitor
procure
35. To punish by officially kick sb out of a Christian Church
rout
excommunicate
reapportion
hasty
36. (formal) to start to do sth new or difficult
incensed
embark on
titillate
mercenary
37. Starving
dilution
liberator
progenitor
famished
38. The continuous firing of a large amour of guns in a particular direction
spawn
barrage
fallacy
amorous
39. Happiness - fun and the sound of people laughing
mirth
verbose
lanky
glowing
40. Not safe and certain; dangerous
precarious
penchant
sole
stolid
41. Connected with money
replicate
deprecate
patron
monetary
42. Ambiguous
serenade
equivocal
unpalatable
leaden
43. Having many sexual partners; taking from a wide range of sources - especially without careful thought
timorous
feral
promiscuous
vetiver
44. The complete destruction of every trace of something
eradication
disrupt
relish
alias
45. Focus more on function than other qualities
droll
utilitarian
offbeat
pantomime
46. An indirect remark about sb/sth - usually suggesting sth bad or rude.
innuendo
indefatigable
explicitly
captive
47. To stop sb do sth from his atempt
ammunition
exterminate
assortment
thwart
48. (spots) done very fast with great energy
tentative
blistering
impetus
divulge
49. Hurried - especially when this has bad results
lambaste
rescind
hasty
formality
50. Rule d and controlled by men
patriarchal
havoc
repulsed
founder