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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. Nervous and easily frightened
omit
reign over
timorous
titillate
2. To talk sb into gently
accomplice
ammunition
superfluous
coax
3. A natural or artificial lake that keeps water before it is taken by pipes to houses - etc.
candor
dearth
thwart
reservoir
4. Unfriendly and aggressive
salient
belligerent
equivocal
incensed
5. To leave out
niche
obsequious
egregious
omit
6. Unpleasant and not easy to accept
unpalatable
trivial
subvert
probity
7. Rage
misnomer
rail at
beguile
egregious
8. To depend on something
hinges on
dearth
convoluted
demolish
9. Lonely and unhappy
precipitate
strenuous
bustling
forlorn
10. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
extent
founder
rarefy
refute
11. An idea - a belief or an understanding of shth
criteria
miserly
notion
monetary
12. (disapproving) to be slow and unwilling to understand sth
obtuse
addendum
erosion
retelling
13. To smile widely
harbinger
grin
famished
lamentable
14. A sign that shows that sth is going to happen - often bad
demolish
glum
chivalry
harbinger
15. (formal) to form an opinion about sth even though you do not have much information on it
unrest
wistfully
demolish
conjecture
16. A situation of destruction - damage and confusion
viable
omit
havoc
trivial
17. The quality of being humble
placate
chock back
salutary
humility
18. Living wild - especially after escaping from life as a pet or on a farm
liberator
feral
spurious
scanty
19. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
verbose
hybrid
indigenous
flimsy
20. Extremely dangerous or harmful and quick to have a n effect
undertake
virulent
wax and wane
lethargy
21. Extremely bad
egregious
displace
aggravate
frugal
22. (spots) done very fast with great energy
mournful
nourish
feign
blistering
23. To make sth bigger - louder - stronger
blistering
unvarying
magnify
exemption
24. To do or be better than sb/sth
rail at
entreat
prompt
surpass
25. The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
mime
havoc
agnostic
candor
26. Full of people moving around in a busy way
monotonously
envision
bustling
pantomime
27. Showing much or too much emotion
convoluted
relinquish
subtle
effusive
28. To reduce sth by a large amount so that there's not enough left
viable
deplete
promiscuous
vexed
29. Extremely polite and full of respect - especially in an old-fashioned way
plummet
placid
courtly
grudgingly
30. Plunge
chock back
plummet
benefactor
voluminous
31. Wipe out
exterminate
applicable
equivocal
spawn
32. A bad sense of something will happen
premonition
chivalry
erosion
divulge
33. Ancestor
catalogue
notion
resemble
progenitor
34. Connected with money
indigenous
monetary
extolling
altruistic
35. An indirect remark about sb/sth - usually suggesting sth bad or rude.
innuendo
totter
fauna
demolish
36. The sate of not having any energy or enthusiasm for doing things
repulsed
conceal
lethargy
rout
37. Using only a few words to say sth
wane
laconic
aggravate
misnomer
38. Extremely complicated and difficult to follow; (formal) having many twits or curves
enthrall with
reapportion
convoluted
benign
39. A match of boxing/wrestling
obsequious
deficit
aggravate
bout
40. Not define or certain because you may want to change it later; hesitant
haste
tentative
lanky
disrupt
41. To produce a book - list - report - etc. by bringing together different items - articles - songs - etc.
mementos
imprudence
wax
compile
42. Dirty of any kind
grudgingly
entrench
mercenary
preeminent
43. Narrow-minded
sturdy
provincial
dreary
monotonously
44. To make sth smaller or weak
vague
diminish
frugal
misnomer
45. To punish or make sb suffer
integrity
benchmark
ungainly
metes out
46. To enjoy or desire much
bestow
proponent
relish
mundane
47. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
preeminent
laconic
persistently
integrity
48. Someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
reapportion
salient
persistently
liberator
49. To make into compartment (room)
morale
persistently
condone
compartmentalize
50. To keep people - animals or plants alive and healthy by food - etc.
plummet
nourish
grant
lambaste