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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
laconic
compartmentalize
indigenous
bout
2. Connected with money
monetary
venerate
perturbed
promiscuous
3. Not clear in a person's mind
miserly
vague
exterminate
illuminate
4. The fact of caring about the needs and happiness of other people more than your own
integrity
altruistic
beguile
blatant
5. Hurried - especially when this has bad results
misconstrue
famished
formality
hasty
6. (adj.) a problem that is difficult to deal wit
resemble
vexed
genial
shear
7. Money paid regularly to sb as wages
wane
shear
stipend
ungainly
8. To make sth smaller or weak
diminish
rescind
mime
distraught
9. The outer edge of a particular area
tentative
periphery
hasty
resemble
10. A person who gives money or other help to a person or an organization
expatriate
forlorn
condone
benefactor
11. To reduce sth by a large amount so that there's not enough left
salient
magnify
pretentious
deplete
12. Showing sexual desire and love towards sb
laconic
compartmentalize
amorous
superfluous
13. Strong and not easily damaged
sturdy
bustling
misnomer
courtly
14. A man in the Middle Ages who promised to fight for and be loyal to a king or other powerful owner of land
lamentable
vassal
precipitate
coax
15. Ancestor
upbraid
arsonist
progenitor
unvarying
16. A collection of different things or different type of the same thing
accomplice
stolid
hierarchical
assortment
17. Being lack of variety
refute
hasty
harbinger
monotony
18. To give sth to sb to show respect
resemble
syncopated
subsidize
bestow
19. Too small; (of a person) hating to spend money
courtly
blatant
amorous
miserly
20. (disapproving) trying to appear important - intelligent - etc - in order to impress other people
extent
lofty
pretentious
mercenary
21. To make unpleasant sound
alias
upbraid
subtle
jangle
22. Needing great effort and energy
rhetoric
strenuous
probity
incensed
23. A place where people meet for an organized event - for example a concert - sporting event - or conference
venue
reapportion
rarefy
writ
24. To punish by officially kick sb out of a Christian Church
morale
excommunicate
upbraid
captive
25. give up
feral
niche
founder
relinquish
26. Extremely polite and full of respect - especially in an old-fashioned way
feign
courtly
laconic
monotony
27. All the animal living in an area or in a particular period of history
repulsed
superfluous
relinquish
fauna
28. Narrow-minded
provincial
distraught
strenuous
integrity
29. A reply - especially a quick critical or amusing
rejoinder
conventional
compile
reapportion
30. The stopping of sth; giving birth to baby by taking them out of the mother through a surgery
cede
editorial
cessation
effusive
31. Most important and noticeable
exuberant
salient
dilution
excommunicate
32. Beg; seriously asking for
insinuate
prudence
preeminent
entreat
33. Rage
persistently
explicitly
wax
rail at
34. False - although seeming to be genuine
bequeath
stolid
curt
spurious
35. Revoke; to sate that a law - contract - decision - etc. is no longer valid
entrench
rescind
envision
promiscuous
36. To criticize sb or speak angrily to them because you don't approve what they have done or said
lofty
beguile
criteria
upbraid
37. Rule d and controlled by men
genial
patriarchal
extent
obtuse
38. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
persistently
totter
bombastic
multifarious
39. To give sb control of sth unwillingly
cede
chock back
eradication
compartmentalize
40. Not important or serious; not worth considering
warily
conglomeration
trivial
procure
41. To talk sb into gently
coax
amorous
blistering
lamentable
42. Outstanding; greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
excommunicate
preeminent
discreet
hull
43. Critical in a direct and rather cruel way
patriarchal
humility
rail at
acerbic
44. A match of boxing/wrestling
bout
ascetic
clump
ration
45. To look like or be similar to another person or thing
instrumental
rash
resemble
pyromaniac
46. Allocate - distribute - or apportion anew
lanky
reapportion
monetary
benchmark
47. To strongly criticize sb/sth that you think is wrong - illegal - etc.
cyanide
indefatigable
wistfully
denounce
48. The sate of not having any energy or enthusiasm for doing things
proponent
lethargy
topography
precipitate
49. Not define or certain because you may want to change it later; hesitant
diminish
tentative
verbose
wax
50. undermine -> to make sth - especially sb's confidence or authority - gradually weaker or less effective
displace
serenade
subsidize
subvert