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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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1. To keep people - animals or plants alive and healthy by food - etc.
criteria
formality
nourish
prevalent
2. A match of boxing/wrestling
magnify
droll
beguile
bout
3. To make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way
courtly
lamentable
disrupt
relinquish
4. To trick sb into doing sth - especially by being nice to them
chivalry
garrulous
offbeat
beguile
5. Physically strong and healthy
leaden
able-bodied
superfluous
editorial
6. Careful in what you say or do to keep sth secret
viable
discreet
arid
preeminent
7. (spots) done very fast with great energy
strenuous
blistering
grant
reticent
8. (formal) to shine light on sth; = clarify; = light up
illuminate
hinges on
innuendo
deplete
9. Organized of levels from high to low in a society
incentive
leaden
shear
hierarchical
10. (informal) different from what most people expect
undertake
applicable
salient
offbeat
11. To leave out
stipend
reticent
omit
timorous
12. An animal or a plant of parents from different species
insinuate
hybrid
blistering
integrity
13. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
titillate
scanty
persistently
sumptuous
14. Not important or serious; not worth considering
sodden
lamentable
verbose
trivial
15. Giving enthusiastic praise 'in glowing terms'
ungainly
glowing
rash
curmudgeon
16. A collection of different things or different type of the same thing
nourish
assortment
conglomeration
warily
17. A legal document from a court of order
dire
unpalatable
hierarchical
writ
18. (disapproving) trying to appear important - intelligent - etc - in order to impress other people
bout
pretentious
dilution
fauna
19. Full of energy - excitement and happiness
elicited
effusive
exuberant
patriarchal
20. Search inside sth
acerbic
timorous
delve into
dexterous
21. To have foretold vision
explicitly
retelling
envision
equivocal
22. To make sb less angry about sth
placate
totter
hasty
upbraid
23. The stopping of sth; giving birth to baby by taking them out of the mother through a surgery
prudence
cessation
catalogue
wax
24. Talking a lot - especially about unimportant things
procure
garrulous
grin
grudgingly
25. Extremely upset and anxious so that you can't think clearly
monotonously
superfluous
distraught
repudiate
26. Kind and gentle
imprudence
notion
benign
fallacy
27. A name used b y writer that is not real
pseudonym
omit
progenitor
vague
28. Only; single
entrench
syncopated
sole
virulent
29. To give sth to sb to show respect
pseudonym
distraught
laconic
bestow
30. To perform a play or act a part in a play; to pass a law
enact
provincial
entreat
extolling
31. Not enough
vassal
scanty
unpalatable
alias
32. To strongly criticize sb/sth that you think is wrong - illegal - etc.
harbinger
denounce
annex
bustling
33. To stop sb do sth from his atempt
thwart
acerbic
pyromaniac
arid
34. Reveal a secret
blatant
divulge
compile
enact
35. To talk sb into gently
forlorn
coax
subvert
reign over
36. Dull gray - like lead
offbeat
leaden
grudgingly
bestow
37. (formal) words which sound important but have little meaning - used to impress people
alias
condone
titillate
bombastic
38. (formal) to say in a will that you want sb to have your property - money - etc. after your die.
infectious
rash
bequeath
syncopated
39. Very angry
pantomime
bestow
sturdy
incensed
40. Strong and not easily damaged
ungainly
fallacy
multifarious
sturdy
41. The quality of being loyal to sb/sth
ungainly
probity
premonition
fidelity
42. Rage
mournful
rail at
famished
chivalry
43. A standard or principle by which sth is judged
criteria
monotonously
utilitarian
leaden
44. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
subvert
ascetic
prevalent
innuendo
45. False - although seeming to be genuine
editorial
lamentable
spurious
alias
46. To copy sth exactly
barrage
replicate
reapportion
venerate
47. Regulated
exterminate
prescribed
unpalatable
rescind
48. To make sth smaller or weak
diminish
repulsed
unvarying
exterminate
49. A sign that shows that sth is going to happen - often bad
tentative
sturdy
harbinger
blistering
50. Badly made and not strong enough for the purpose for which it is used
catalogue
obsequious
tentative
flimsy