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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 keep people - animals or plants alive and healthy by food - etc.
ungainly
condone
nourish
harbinger
2. (disapproving) trying to appear important - intelligent - etc - in order to impress other people
pretentious
extolling
divulge
misconstrue
3. A person living in a country that's not their own
meager
progenitor
expatriate
mirth
4. To fill with water and sink; to fail because of a particular problem
superfluous
mime
founder
provincial
5. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
curt
patron
persistently
laconic
6. Tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general
editorial
benefactor
conventional
mirth
7. Showing sexual desire and love towards sb
nourish
notion
amorous
spurn
8. To strongly criticize sb/sth that you think is wrong - illegal - etc.
denounce
bestow
procure
venerate
9. A situation that sth is defeated easily and completely
leaden
formality
rout
thwart
10. Extremely polite and full of respect - especially in an old-fashioned way
bustling
progenitor
clash with
courtly
11. To give sth to sb to show respect
barge
obsequious
bestow
aggravate
12. Horrible or terrible
instrumental
expatriate
arid
ghastly
13. To make into compartment (room)
hybrid
wax
voluminous
compartmentalize
14. That can be said to be true in the case of sb/sth
deplete
applicable
deficit
relinquish
15. A fact or an event in nature or society - especially one that is not fully understand
phenomenon
conjecture
bustling
hybrid
16. = mime; = farce
ascetic
refute
pantomime
sumptuous
17. Needing great effort and energy
ammunition
pyromaniac
strenuous
miserly
18. To have foretold vision
able-bodied
voluminous
infectious
envision
19. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
spurious
lanky
totter
pantomime
20. Unpleasant and not easy to accept
able-bodied
reluctant
unpalatable
reapportion
21. Only; single
placate
erosion
sole
thwart
22. Not interesting or exciting
deplete
conjecture
mundane
venerate
23. A situation of earning less than owed of spent
redundant
periphery
deficit
humanitarian
24. A person who gives money or other help to a person or an organization
benefactor
mournful
writ
mirth
25. Dull gray - like lead
leaden
compartmentalize
editorial
serenade
26. Showing much or too much emotion
cessation
hinges on
effusive
embark on
27. A place where people meet for an organized event - for example a concert - sporting event - or conference
glowing
venue
undertake
dilution
28. A person who believe it is not possible to know whether God exists or not
multifarious
agnostic
venue
effusive
29. To make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse (=worsen)
catalogue
placid
clash with
aggravate
30. A series of unpleasant things that happen
rash
compartmentalize
barge
catalogue
31. Not noticeable or obvious
compile
exemption
prevalent
subtle
32. A legal document from a court of order
arsonist
entreat
writ
enact
33. To make sth happen or be produced
writ
alias
spawn
wane
34. Supporter
proponent
fidelity
repulsed
topography
35. To try hard not to show your feelings
ghastly
vexed
chock back
relish
36. Careful when dealing with sb/sth because you think that there may be a danger or problem
humanitarian
warily
feral
conventional
37. Narrow-minded
heirloom
rarefy
provincial
magnify
38. To reduce sth by a large amount so that there's not enough left
deplete
able-bodied
rubric
repulsed
39. A political situation in which people are angry and likely to pretest or fight
unrest
reluctant
sumptuous
embark on
40. Not seeming to be based on a reason - system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair
arbitrary
denounce
lambaste
dearth
41. (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
incentive
formality
perturbed
stolid
42. Having many sexual partners; taking from a wide range of sources - especially without careful thought
promiscuous
dire
criteria
niche
43. A gradual decline of sth
erosion
stipend
hull
clash with
44. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
ascetic
conglomeration
equivocal
accomplice
45. A performance using gestures and body movements without words
deprecate
vetiver
delve into
mime
46. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
fallacy
bustling
feral
indigenous
47. Allocate - distribute - or apportion anew
viscous
reapportion
famished
stipend
48. Able to spread around
disseminate
infectious
feign
meager
49. To be respected very much as being very important or holy
heirloom
prescribed
venerate
replicate
50. To give subsidy
subsidize
viable
procure
rail at