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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. Regulated
precipitate
prescribed
vexed
humanitarian
2. Careful in what you say or do to keep sth secret
tentative
multifarious
arsonist
discreet
3. To talk sb into gently
coax
grin
chivalry
disrupt
4. Unable to escape; kept as a prisoner or in a confined space
meager
captive
relish
eradication
5. A person living in a country that's not their own
expatriate
seedy
exuberant
illuminate
6. To get onto a sheep
titillate
acerbic
embark
aggravate
7. Not noticeable or obvious
entitle
unpalatable
subtle
omit
8. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
rarefy
garrulous
prudence
dearth
9. An idea - a belief or an understanding of shth
integrity
notion
agnostic
laconic
10. Not needed or useful
syncopated
feral
acerbic
redundant
11. To give subsidy
egregious
subsidize
mournful
vexed
12. Plunge
patron
monotonously
mournful
plummet
13. Most important and noticeable
delve into
persistently
rash
salient
14. Not showing much emotion or interest; remaining always the same and not reacting or changing
hull
stolid
ration
flimsy
15. A fragrant extract or essential oil obtained from the root of an Indian grass - used in perfumery and aromatherapy
monetary
droll
vetiver
barge
16. Imply; to tell or say sth indirectly that it is true
insinuate
distraught
accomplice
repulsed
17. To limit the amount of sth that sb is allowed to have
ration
exuberant
omit
distraught
18. Very sad
nourish
beguile
mournful
topography
19. To suddenly cause sth bad to happen
reapportion
haste
spawn
precipitate
20. Dirty of any kind
magnify
fallacy
humility
grudgingly
21. Physically strong and healthy
beguile
able-bodied
benefactor
fauna
22. Nervous and easily frightened
timorous
vetiver
garrulous
spurn
23. To break under pressure
lamentable
seedy
shear
refute
24. Being lack of variety
deprecate
sturdy
barrage
monotony
25. A highly poisonous chemical
conceal
cyanide
relish
stolid
26. Sth valuable that has passed down within a family
unvarying
heirloom
editorial
haste
27. (of a liquid) thick and sticky; not flowing freely
viscous
benchmark
placate
serenade
28. To do or be better than sb/sth
seedy
surpass
reluctant
denounce
29. To make sth happen or be produced
entrench
multifarious
bestow
spawn
30. (formal - disapproving) using or containing more words than are neede
redundant
surpass
grin
verbose
31. Souvenir
voluminous
indefatigable
mementos
patriarchal
32. To produce a book - list - report - etc. by bringing together different items - articles - songs - etc.
plummet
ascetic
bout
compile
33. To copy sth exactly
barge
repulsed
replicate
surpass
34. A person who gives money or other help to a person or an organization
benefactor
farce
genial
perturbed
35. Able to spread around
infectious
famished
perturbed
dearth
36. Not define or certain because you may want to change it later; hesitant
arid
candor
tentative
bout
37. The act of conceding
concession
jangle
divulge
venue
38. To make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse (=worsen)
clash with
equivocal
egregious
aggravate
39. Ancestor
denounce
progenitor
prompt
assortment
40. Official of not to do/pay what you normally have to
deprecate
exemption
morale
entrench
41. False - although seeming to be genuine
mirth
salient
spurious
patron
42. To fill with water and sink; to fail because of a particular problem
repulsed
convoluted
trivial
founder
43. The sate of not having any energy or enthusiasm for doing things
farce
lethargy
precarious
prompt
44. Sad - quite and unhappy
glum
morale
penchant
grudgingly
45. Only; single
conjecture
envision
sole
incensed
46. Never changing therefore boring
monotonously
farce
dearth
insinuate
47. Allocate - distribute - or apportion anew
fallacy
reapportion
reservoir
excommunicate
48. The stopping of sth; giving birth to baby by taking them out of the mother through a surgery
fauna
conceal
redundant
cessation
49. Not easily irritated
frugal
placid
prompt
beguile
50. A natural or artificial lake that keeps water before it is taken by pipes to houses - etc.
reservoir
arsonist
superfluous
venue