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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. To be respected very much as being very important or holy
misnomer
embark on
venerate
genial
2. To become gradually weaker or less important
wane
integrity
scanty
pantomime
3. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
concession
ascetic
elicited
frugal
4. Never changing therefore boring
egregious
monotonously
ration
unrest
5. Not enough
pseudonym
condone
scanty
salient
6. To fell disgust or strong dislike
mirth
rejoinder
repulsed
wax
7. Rule d and controlled by men
divulge
patriarchal
rejoinder
lamentable
8. The complete destruction of every trace of something
illuminate
compartmentalize
eradication
acerbic
9. The fact of caring about the needs and happiness of other people more than your own
compile
altruistic
stipend
glum
10. To make sth into catalogue
morale
pretentious
glowing
catalogue
11. To trick sb into doing sth - especially by being nice to them
enact
assortment
beguile
totter
12. Concerned with making people live better
prudence
formality
magnify
humanitarian
13. To keep people - animals or plants alive and healthy by food - etc.
sodden
embark on
nourish
cognizant
14. Extremely upset and anxious so that you can't think clearly
distraught
thwart
lambaste
patriarchal
15. To establish sth very firmly so that it's very difficult to change
entrench
salient
blistering
replicate
16. To strongly criticize sb/sth that you think is wrong - illegal - etc.
denounce
voluminous
conjecture
fidelity
17. False - although seeming to be genuine
vexed
aggravate
perturbed
spurious
18. To make sth happen or be produced
diminish
spawn
grin
refute
19. Extremely dangerous or harmful and quick to have a n effect
extent
famished
entitle
virulent
20. To accept sth wrong or treat it as it is not serious
condone
instrumental
provincial
ascetic
21. A legal document from a court of order
stolid
wistfully
probity
writ
22. The sate of not having any energy or enthusiasm for doing things
proponent
ascetic
incensed
lethargy
23. A person who helps in criminal incidents
laconic
dreary
shear
accomplice
24. Too small; (of a person) hating to spend money
subvert
mournful
prevalent
miserly
25. Not noticeable or obvious
excommunicate
subtle
elicited
extent
26. Incompetent; not having the skill
subtle
inept
barge
garrulous
27. To depend on something
hinges on
warily
prudence
exuberant
28. (formal) to feel and express strong disapproving of sth
deprecate
conventional
insinuate
fallacy
29. Very angry
mundane
resemble
benefactor
incensed
30. To have foretold vision
envision
rarefy
spawn
excommunicate
31. A false idea many people believe to be true; a logic false in thinking about sth
sturdy
fallacy
deficit
glum
32. Extremely complicated and difficult to follow; (formal) having many twits or curves
convoluted
misnomer
formality
salutary
33. An important article in newspaper that express the editor's opinion
exemption
editorial
addendum
effusive
34. A fake name of a criminal or actor
alias
metes out
entrench
placid
35. Connected with money
monetary
rout
displace
impetus
36. Very disappointing
curt
fidelity
lamentable
courtly
37. Lonely and unhappy
premonition
patron
forlorn
famished
38. To fill with water and sink; to fail because of a particular problem
leaden
founder
subvert
relish
39. (formal) words which sound important but have little meaning - used to impress people
reluctant
amorous
scanty
bombastic
40. Something that encourage a process or activity
enact
demolish
impetus
refute
41. A match of boxing/wrestling
wax
penchant
bout
vague
42. To make into compartment (room)
totter
compartmentalize
dexterous
chock back
43. To enjoy or desire much
dire
discreet
relish
verbose
44. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
humanitarian
clash with
obsequious
totter
45. Not clear in a person's mind
strenuous
grin
vague
exemption
46. Reveal a secret
distraught
rash
divulge
ammunition
47. (of the moon) to seem to get gradually bigger until its full form is visible
arsonist
wax
patriarchal
incentive
48. Not interesting or exciting
mundane
grin
equivocal
progenitor
49. To stop sb do sth from his atempt
thwart
prescribed
repudiate
garrulous
50. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
wane
benchmark
spurious
rarefy