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SAT Critical Reading Vocab
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sat
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logic-and-reasoning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (formal - disapproving) using or containing more words than are neede
subvert
explicitly
fidelity
verbose
2. To make sth weaker
pseudonym
dilution
offbeat
upbraid
3. Cheerful and friendly
entitle
blistering
ascetic
genial
4. To destroy completely or accidentally
demolish
unpalatable
dearth
salient
5. The quality of being humble
illuminate
syncopated
grin
humility
6. A cranky old person
curmudgeon
viable
exterminate
viciously
7. (formal) to start to do sth new or difficult
embark on
preeminent
imprudence
courtly
8. To get info or reaction - especially with difficulty
rail at
dreary
premonition
elicited
9. Starving
famished
glum
pantomime
havoc
10. (disapproving) to be slow and unwilling to understand sth
mime
founder
obtuse
assortment
11. Connected with money
monotony
stipend
monetary
instrumental
12. To criticize sb or speak angrily to them because you don't approve what they have done or said
vetiver
upbraid
indigenous
cynically
13. To stop sb do sth from his atempt
thwart
vassal
cessation
catalogue
14. Having long arms and legs and moving in and awkward way
lanky
ghastly
disrupt
precarious
15. Organized of levels from high to low in a society
condone
premonition
divulge
hierarchical
16. A sign that shows that sth is going to happen - often bad
jangle
mime
barge
harbinger
17. Physically strong and healthy
dearth
cyanide
able-bodied
rhetoric
18. Strong and not easily damaged
catalogue
arsonist
metes out
sturdy
19. Clever at understanding and making judgments about
deprecate
enthrall with
dexterous
heirloom
20. To make sth smaller or weak
ungainly
verbose
bustling
diminish
21. A lack of sth
pyromaniac
trivial
dearth
lamentable
22. To keep people - animals or plants alive and healthy by food - etc.
humanitarian
nourish
clash with
redundant
23. To fell disgust or strong dislike
topography
sodden
repulsed
assortment
24. To talk sb into gently
enthrall with
spurn
coax
extent
25. Short fight between groups (clash=conflict)
clash with
misconstrue
unrest
alias
26. Not enough
scanty
garrulous
assortment
repudiate
27. Supporter
curt
proponent
bequeath
blatant
28. (formal) to feel and express strong disapproving of sth
deprecate
entrench
annex
mercenary
29. (formal) to understand sb's words or action wrongly
exemption
illuminate
misconstrue
rejoinder
30. Very angry
prudence
unvarying
incensed
sodden
31. Search inside sth
delve into
reign over
condone
viable
32. Sad - quite and unhappy
titillate
surpass
glum
embark
33. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
reticent
humility
subsidize
indigenous
34. To look like or be similar to another person or thing
beguile
mementos
rout
resemble
35. Clear and easy to understand
divulge
explicitly
redundant
seedy
36. A mix of different things found together
conglomeration
conjecture
unvarying
prescribed
37. Ambiguous
bombastic
unpalatable
equivocal
instrumental
38. Unexpectedly amusing
entreat
droll
verbose
applicable
39. An important article in newspaper that express the editor's opinion
entrench
ungainly
omit
editorial
40. To break under pressure
indigenous
unrest
shear
venerate
41. To move away sth
displace
integrity
trivial
incensed
42. Not showing much emotion or interest; remaining always the same and not reacting or changing
viciously
mundane
stolid
founder
43. A solider who will fight for any country or group that offers payment
trivial
mercenary
cyanide
indefatigable
44. Tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general
conventional
rubric
prompt
droll
45. Not needed or useful
distraught
redundant
benchmark
placid
46. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
harbinger
haste
venerate
rarefy
47. Common - widespread
illuminate
prevalent
phenomenon
concession
48. Unfriendly and aggressive
belligerent
omit
dire
venerate
49. Concerned with making people live better
resemble
deficit
stipend
humanitarian
50. Unable to escape; kept as a prisoner or in a confined space
captive
spurious
garrulous
notion