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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. To make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse (=worsen)
wax and wane
barrage
reluctant
aggravate
2. A situation of earning less than owed of spent
accomplice
liberator
deficit
sole
3. Ambiguous
barge
equivocal
progenitor
grin
4. Very expensive and looking very impressive
bestow
sumptuous
mementos
rhetoric
5. To break under pressure
compartmentalize
venue
subsidize
shear
6. An indirect remark about sb/sth - usually suggesting sth bad or rude.
metes out
innuendo
haste
pretentious
7. To smile widely
grin
venerate
retelling
clash with
8. The outer edge of a particular area
periphery
enact
altruistic
miserly
9. Reveal a secret
rejoinder
indefatigable
divulge
placate
10. Rage
viable
humanitarian
rail at
able-bodied
11. Beg; seriously asking for
alias
entreat
warily
insinuate
12. Extremely bad
arsonist
confront
egregious
harbinger
13. Not interesting or exciting
relish
redundant
conglomeration
mundane
14. Extremely polite and full of respect - especially in an old-fashioned way
courtly
benign
conceal
excommunicate
15. Dirty of any kind
plummet
grudgingly
rejoinder
entreat
16. Hesitating before doing sth because you don't want to do it or because you aren't sure that if it's the right thing to do
reluctant
entreat
ammunition
precarious
17. Lonely and unhappy
niche
viscous
precarious
forlorn
18. Clear and easy to understand
meager
divulge
explicitly
elicited
19. A match of boxing/wrestling
forlorn
bout
lanky
proponent
20. To spread information - knowledge - etc - so that it reaches many people
exuberant
alias
notion
disseminate
21. To criticize sb or speak angrily to them because you don't approve what they have done or said
upbraid
notion
grant
diminish
22. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
provincial
indigenous
heirloom
promiscuous
23. To move in an awkward way - pushing people around out of the way or crash into them
subsidize
dearth
premonition
barge
24. Common - widespread
chock back
lofty
prevalent
upbraid
25. Very high (loft=attic)
lofty
upbraid
sumptuous
elicited
26. To move away sth
placate
displace
obsequious
ration
27. Rude because sth done quickly or using very few words
premonition
multifarious
curt
equivocal
28. (formal) to say in a will that you want sb to have your property - money - etc. after your die.
conglomeration
bombastic
bequeath
infectious
29. To reduce sth by a large amount so that there's not enough left
exemption
deplete
hasty
voluminous
30. Cheerful and friendly
accomplice
bustling
lanky
genial
31. Showing much or too much emotion
inept
hybrid
mime
effusive
32. To enjoy or desire much
relish
undertake
incensed
phenomenon
33. (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
viable
liberator
coax
formality
34. To refuse to accept sth (=reject)
disseminate
procure
fidelity
repudiate
35. A highly poisonous chemical
erosion
cyanide
infectious
rash
36. To give sth to sb to show respect
compile
bestow
writ
prudence
37. The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
mirth
candor
excommunicate
captive
38. Having long arms and legs and moving in and awkward way
barge
lanky
wax
obtuse
39. To make sth into catalogue
disseminate
liberator
catalogue
relish
40. (informal) different from what most people expect
cede
deplete
voluminous
offbeat
41. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
compile
barrage
benchmark
annex
42. To make sth bigger - louder - stronger
alias
wax and wane
totter
magnify
43. All the animal living in an area or in a particular period of history
instrumental
hierarchical
illuminate
fauna
44. Most important and noticeable
viscous
salient
captive
monotony
45. Giving enthusiastic praise 'in glowing terms'
compile
enact
glowing
unrest
46. To give sb the right to do sth
meager
bombastic
entitle
penchant
47. Showing sexual desire and love towards sb
amorous
hybrid
prescribed
salutary
48. To make sth smaller or weak
rescind
diminish
exterminate
placate
49. A standard or principle by which sth is judged
criteria
prudence
mercenary
aggravate
50. A person living in a country that's not their own
refute
rail at
curmudgeon
expatriate