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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. Allocate - distribute - or apportion anew
chock back
ungainly
excommunicate
reapportion
2. To have pity on sth you want to have that you used to have
magnify
humility
wistfully
heirloom
3. Someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
sodden
liberator
probity
chock back
4. To be worried and anxious
subtle
convoluted
perturbed
rejoinder
5. (disapproving) to interest or excite in a sexual way
conglomeration
displace
sumptuous
titillate
6. To move away sth
aggravate
farce
displace
prompt
7. Unable to escape; kept as a prisoner or in a confined space
harbinger
feral
captive
concession
8. Very disappointing
placid
lamentable
chock back
humility
9. A man in the Middle Ages who promised to fight for and be loyal to a king or other powerful owner of land
benefactor
aggravate
vassal
arbitrary
10. (man) to sing or play music to a woman of his love outside under the window
serenade
proponent
rescind
repudiate
11. Connected with money
monetary
shear
niche
prompt
12. Beg; seriously asking for
placate
entreat
chivalry
sodden
13. To pretend to have a particular feeling
feign
superfluous
clash with
frugal
14. To get onto a sheep
cyanide
embark
probity
dexterous
15. Full of energy - excitement and happiness
exuberant
sodden
impetus
stipend
16. (of actions that are considered bad) done in an obvious and open way without caring if people are shocked
procure
redundant
glowing
blatant
17. To punish by officially kick sb out of a Christian Church
bout
excommunicate
indigenous
reticent
18. Giving enthusiastic praise 'in glowing terms'
surpass
glowing
blistering
provincial
19. The stopping of sth; giving birth to baby by taking them out of the mother through a surgery
seedy
humanitarian
cessation
enact
20. Showing sexual desire and love towards sb
procure
lofty
amorous
pantomime
21. The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles
reapportion
fauna
integrity
beguile
22. A solider who will fight for any country or group that offers payment
vexed
cognizant
mercenary
wax and wane
23. Most important and noticeable
viciously
sturdy
salient
dilution
24. Additional information
unpalatable
lofty
addendum
pyromaniac
25. To produce a book - list - report - etc. by bringing together different items - articles - songs - etc.
relinquish
unrest
compile
conjecture
26. Careful in what you say or do to keep sth secret
replicate
discreet
precipitate
instrumental
27. Unexpectedly amusing
droll
offbeat
bestow
convoluted
28. Having many sexual partners; taking from a wide range of sources - especially without careful thought
innuendo
accomplice
promiscuous
havoc
29. Supply of bullets
innuendo
pyromaniac
ammunition
spurious
30. Not interesting or exciting
formality
assortment
mundane
morale
31. Rule d and controlled by men
vetiver
patriarchal
disrupt
fauna
32. Not wise or sensible
deplete
distraught
enthrall with
imprudence
33. To obtain - especially with difficulty
procure
heirloom
fauna
eradication
34. They physical feature of an area of land - especially the position of its mountains - rivers - etc.
dreary
agnostic
viscous
topography
35. (formal - disapproving) speech or writing that is intended to influence people - but that is not completely honest or sincere
conceal
diminish
rhetoric
chivalry
36. A reply - especially a quick critical or amusing
rejoinder
able-bodied
blatant
amorous
37. To punish or make sb suffer
repudiate
metes out
beguile
illuminate
38. A code that knights adopted in the late Middle Ages; requiring them to be brave - loyal and true to their word; they had to fight fairly in battle
humanitarian
fallacy
chivalry
frugal
39. A name used b y writer that is not real
pseudonym
hierarchical
lamentable
warily
40. A person living in a country that's not their own
stipend
expatriate
arid
assortment
41. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
wane
rarefy
benchmark
provincial
42. Moving in a way that is not smooth or elegant
preeminent
trivial
ungainly
pantomime
43. To enjoy or desire much
shear
compile
cede
relish
44. A sign that shows that sth is going to happen - often bad
eradication
harbinger
havoc
explicitly
45. Hurried - especially when this has bad results
dreary
viscous
hasty
bout
46. Critical in a direct and rather cruel way
acerbic
magnify
cessation
progenitor
47. A match of boxing/wrestling
bout
offbeat
grant
premonition
48. (disapproving) to be slow and unwilling to understand sth
dearth
obtuse
divulge
editorial
49. To look like or be similar to another person or thing
deplete
benefactor
resemble
glum
50. A series of unpleasant things that happen
rash
venue
flimsy
egregious