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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. Having a good effect on sb/sth - though often seeming unpleasant
writ
salutary
mundane
rescind
2. Small and poor in quality
meager
strenuous
founder
cyanide
3. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
indigenous
humility
rarefy
embark
4. (formal) words which sound important but have little meaning - used to impress people
spurious
bombastic
ghastly
wane
5. Moving in a way that is not smooth or elegant
relish
lanky
ungainly
replicate
6. A legal document from a court of order
annex
venue
grudgingly
writ
7. Unexpectedly amusing
monetary
phenomenon
droll
trivial
8. To look like or be similar to another person or thing
glowing
flimsy
benchmark
resemble
9. To make sth bigger - louder - stronger
rout
magnify
mime
verbose
10. (of the moon) to seem to get gradually bigger until its full form is visible
progenitor
impetus
wax
wax and wane
11. To make sb less angry about sth
wax and wane
unvarying
placate
embark
12. A special liking for sth
penchant
monotony
prudence
conventional
13. Official of not to do/pay what you normally have to
delve into
erosion
exemption
vassal
14. Supply of bullets
utilitarian
rhetoric
criteria
ammunition
15. (formal - disapproving) speech or writing that is intended to influence people - but that is not completely honest or sincere
eradication
upbraid
rhetoric
insinuate
16. A person living in a country that's not their own
disrupt
expatriate
editorial
rejoinder
17. Not interesting or exciting
mundane
wistfully
altruistic
salutary
18. They physical feature of an area of land - especially the position of its mountains - rivers - etc.
benign
viable
topography
prompt
19. To smile widely
entitle
grin
topography
accomplice
20. To spread information - knowledge - etc - so that it reaches many people
disseminate
equivocal
infectious
prompt
21. Sth valuable that has passed down within a family
lethargy
displace
instrumental
heirloom
22. (adj.) a problem that is difficult to deal wit
vexed
conceal
accomplice
exemption
23. To make sth happen or be produced
rash
rubric
spawn
resemble
24. To give subsidy
subsidize
misconstrue
rarefy
cognizant
25. A person who helps in criminal incidents
havoc
superfluous
accomplice
applicable
26. Using only a few words to say sth
titillate
founder
laconic
confront
27. Something that encourage a process or activity
offbeat
impetus
blistering
sturdy
28. To tell again
rubric
agnostic
retelling
bout
29. Violent and brutal
hasty
liberator
viciously
lanky
30. To limit the amount of sth that sb is allowed to have
viciously
ration
vetiver
misnomer
31. A bad sense of something will happen
applicable
agnostic
ammunition
premonition
32. Tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general
conventional
lamentable
egregious
premonition
33. Not easily irritated
conglomeration
placid
enthrall with
patriarchal
34. (disapproving) trying to appear important - intelligent - etc - in order to impress other people
enact
pretentious
unvarying
voluminous
35. To leave out
belligerent
omit
imprudence
subtle
36. Not wise or sensible
imprudence
captive
reservoir
leaden
37. Beg; seriously asking for
entreat
sole
obtuse
repudiate
38. Never changing therefore boring
monotonously
venue
incensed
garrulous
39. To keep people - animals or plants alive and healthy by food - etc.
tentative
nourish
cede
thwart
40. A false idea many people believe to be true; a logic false in thinking about sth
forlorn
fallacy
bombastic
exemption
41. Additional information
grudgingly
extolling
addendum
lamentable
42. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
jangle
superfluous
chock back
persistently
43. Needing great effort and energy
sumptuous
multifarious
strenuous
unpalatable
44. (formal) to say in a will that you want sb to have your property - money - etc. after your die.
leaden
offbeat
mementos
bequeath
45. Too small; (of a person) hating to spend money
dreary
proponent
miserly
exterminate
46. Very high (loft=attic)
writ
lofty
chivalry
viable
47. Connected with money
monetary
bestow
fallacy
cyanide
48. (formal) to shine light on sth; = clarify; = light up
venerate
prompt
explicitly
illuminate
49. (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
delve into
equivocal
sturdy
formality
50. How serious - important - large sth is
perturbed
vassal
extent
ration