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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. Only; single
sole
bombastic
benchmark
altruistic
2. Very expensive and looking very impressive
famished
sumptuous
pyromaniac
barrage
3. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
persistently
accomplice
blatant
impetus
4. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
grant
benchmark
rash
warily
5. (formal - disapproving) trying too hard to please sb - especially sb who is important
obsequious
chivalry
addendum
diminish
6. The outer edge of a particular area
catalogue
cyanide
barrage
periphery
7. Dirty and unpleasant - usually with immortal or illegal activities
seedy
lofty
vetiver
notion
8. Believing that everything happened for selfish reasons; being selfish when doing things
able-bodied
cynically
viciously
seedy
9. To make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way
prudence
disrupt
distraught
promiscuous
10. To make into compartment (room)
confront
compartmentalize
arid
lamentable
11. Reveal a secret
divulge
periphery
penchant
impetus
12. Rude because sth done quickly or using very few words
cede
alias
curt
spurn
13. = mime; = farce
sodden
pantomime
magnify
voluminous
14. Full of energy - excitement and happiness
penchant
condone
exuberant
conventional
15. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
ascetic
compile
flimsy
indigenous
16. Extremely wet
mercenary
sodden
lambaste
placid
17. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
ascetic
agnostic
hinges on
spurn
18. To refuse - reject in a proud way
indefatigable
resemble
spurn
rescind
19. Supporter
liberator
agnostic
proponent
captive
20. (man) to sing or play music to a woman of his love outside under the window
tentative
periphery
ghastly
serenade
21. Giving enthusiastic praise 'in glowing terms'
expatriate
glowing
conventional
bout
22. A highly poisonous chemical
preeminent
cyanide
benign
expatriate
23. Full of people moving around in a busy way
bustling
obsequious
captive
cyanide
24. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
ascetic
penchant
totter
droll
25. A bad sense of something will happen
curmudgeon
premonition
equivocal
dexterous
26. Very high (loft=attic)
heirloom
patriarchal
lofty
frugal
27. To give sb control of sth unwillingly
relinquish
feral
cede
retelling
28. To accept sth wrong or treat it as it is not serious
heirloom
cessation
harbinger
condone
29. To smile widely
utilitarian
addendum
ration
grin
30. To leave out
explicitly
entreat
verbose
omit
31. To spread information - knowledge - etc - so that it reaches many people
disseminate
proponent
patriarchal
mirth
32. undermine -> to make sth - especially sb's confidence or authority - gradually weaker or less effective
repudiate
reapportion
wax and wane
subvert
33. To make sb decide to do sth; to cause sth to happen
alias
havoc
prompt
verbose
34. A mix of different things found together
rail at
exterminate
conglomeration
compile
35. To fill with water and sink; to fail because of a particular problem
obsequious
misconstrue
precarious
founder
36. A gradual decline of sth
vetiver
erosion
harbinger
accomplice
37. Extremely bad
egregious
assortment
farce
liberator
38. Careful in what you say or do to keep sth secret
discreet
incensed
rhetoric
ghastly
39. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
niche
bequeath
condone
rarefy
40. To trick sb into doing sth - especially by being nice to them
pretentious
eradication
strenuous
beguile
41. Focus more on function than other qualities
catalogue
offbeat
impetus
utilitarian
42. Something that encourage a process or activity
impetus
sturdy
reticent
bout
43. Clear and easy to understand
mournful
explicitly
mime
ghastly
44. A person living in a country that's not their own
unrest
ungainly
expatriate
lanky
45. (usually plural) a thing you must do as a formal or official part of a legal process - a social situation - etc - (usually singular) a thing - that you must do as part of an official progress - but which has little meaning and will not affect what ha
aggravate
misconstrue
procure
formality
46. To make sth happen or be produced
spawn
eradication
farce
prudence
47. Imply; to tell or say sth indirectly that it is true
plummet
insinuate
pyromaniac
effusive
48. To keep people - animals or plants alive and healthy by food - etc.
integrity
belligerent
annex
nourish
49. A fake name of a criminal or actor
alias
grin
frugal
arbitrary
50. The complete destruction of every trace of something
penchant
relish
eradication
dreary