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SAT Critical Reading Vocab
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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. Very high (loft=attic)
lofty
rubric
venue
promiscuous
2. (formal) to shine light on sth; = clarify; = light up
pseudonym
ammunition
assortment
illuminate
3. The fact of caring about the needs and happiness of other people more than your own
benchmark
altruistic
enact
rejoinder
4. To depend on something
shear
elicited
hinges on
seedy
5. To deal with a problem or difficult situation
confront
hull
grant
jangle
6. Narrow-minded
provincial
syncopated
extent
accomplice
7. The amount of confidence and enthusiasm
morale
promiscuous
compile
enthrall with
8. Dirty of any kind
grudgingly
cessation
divulge
arid
9. Revoke; to sate that a law - contract - decision - etc. is no longer valid
rescind
blatant
metes out
deprecate
10. Not define or certain because you may want to change it later; hesitant
spurious
tentative
unrest
prompt
11. A fake name of a criminal or actor
resemble
alias
retelling
compile
12. Kind and gentle
lambaste
benign
distraught
clump
13. A standard or principle by which sth is judged
ammunition
scanty
criteria
monotony
14. To accept sth wrong or treat it as it is not serious
rejoinder
coax
condone
nourish
15. (disapproving) trying to appear important - intelligent - etc - in order to impress other people
miserly
pretentious
writ
addendum
16. Moving in a way that is not smooth or elegant
titillate
voluminous
verbose
ungainly
17. A person who commit the crime of setting fire
patron
arsonist
belligerent
mercenary
18. Sad - quite and unhappy
bequeath
hull
imprudence
glum
19. (man) to sing or play music to a woman of his love outside under the window
feral
discreet
serenade
rail at
20. (formal) a costumer
wax
cyanide
patron
infectious
21. To make sth happen or be produced
vetiver
glowing
stipend
spawn
22. Not interesting or exciting
metes out
expatriate
mundane
morale
23. (of the moon) to seem to get gradually bigger until its full form is visible
bestow
wax
sumptuous
misnomer
24. Cheerful and friendly
enact
blistering
genial
havoc
25. Organized of levels from high to low in a society
hierarchical
bustling
infectious
applicable
26. = mime; = farce
pantomime
reluctant
dilution
applicable
27. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
hybrid
proponent
displace
benchmark
28. Clever at understanding and making judgments about
unrest
agnostic
enthrall with
hybrid
29. To take control of a country - region - etc - especially by force
cognizant
annex
wane
dexterous
30. Souvenir
glum
mementos
integrity
progenitor
31. Not needed or useful
incensed
stipend
applicable
redundant
32. (adj.) a problem that is difficult to deal wit
vexed
clash with
fidelity
lofty
33. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
totter
hinges on
salient
curt
34. (literary) to increase then decrease in strength - importance - etc. over a period of time
wax and wane
coax
totter
stolid
35. The complete destruction of every trace of something
repudiate
eradication
able-bodied
tentative
36. Having long arms and legs and moving in and awkward way
wax
promiscuous
subtle
lanky
37. Attack or criticize sb/sth severely on public
lambaste
rout
subtle
warily
38. A situation of earning less than owed of spent
egregious
syncopated
candor
deficit
39. Not seeming to be based on a reason - system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair
indigenous
arbitrary
feral
lethargy
40. A person who gives money or other help to a person or an organization
rhetoric
replicate
harbinger
benefactor
41. Something that encourages you to do sth
precarious
shear
denounce
incentive
42. Only; single
famished
embark
stipend
sole
43. A legal document from a court of order
writ
reservoir
distraught
redundant
44. A match of boxing/wrestling
surpass
nourish
misnomer
bout
45. A performance using gestures and body movements without words
entitle
mime
vague
compartmentalize
46. To trick sb into doing sth - especially by being nice to them
beguile
assortment
rail at
magnify
47. Full of energy - excitement and happiness
exuberant
undertake
wistfully
omit
48. (formal) to form an opinion about sth even though you do not have much information on it
rubric
mundane
warily
conjecture
49. To reduce sth by a large amount so that there's not enough left
deplete
promiscuous
viable
entrench
50. To smile widely
prescribed
disrupt
grin
timorous