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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. (man) to sing or play music to a woman of his love outside under the window
hierarchical
assortment
fidelity
serenade
2. A political situation in which people are angry and likely to pretest or fight
unrest
wax
rout
reservoir
3. Not enough
offbeat
scanty
ammunition
droll
4. To accept sth wrong or treat it as it is not serious
exemption
subtle
conventional
condone
5. Short fight between groups (clash=conflict)
clash with
rash
equivocal
chock back
6. To be worried and anxious
perturbed
effusive
prompt
viciously
7. Badly made and not strong enough for the purpose for which it is used
miserly
totter
seedy
flimsy
8. To have foretold vision
belligerent
refute
envision
imprudence
9. They physical feature of an area of land - especially the position of its mountains - rivers - etc.
conceal
hybrid
chock back
topography
10. A series of unpleasant things that happen
criteria
rash
patron
wax and wane
11. Outstanding; greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
cessation
shear
totter
preeminent
12. The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles
cognizant
reapportion
forlorn
integrity
13. To spread information - knowledge - etc - so that it reaches many people
disseminate
bequeath
mundane
effusive
14. Ancestor
progenitor
wane
multifarious
serenade
15. Concerned with making people live better
humanitarian
arsonist
delve into
barge
16. Too small; (of a person) hating to spend money
miserly
integrity
repudiate
cessation
17. Very angry
lofty
editorial
incensed
viscous
18. How serious - important - large sth is
lofty
pyromaniac
niche
extent
19. To punish by officially kick sb out of a Christian Church
excommunicate
grudgingly
precarious
editorial
20. All the animal living in an area or in a particular period of history
plummet
fauna
prudence
distraught
21. Rule as emperor - king - or queen
reign over
relish
fauna
rejoinder
22. Kind and gentle
benign
discreet
mundane
viciously
23. (formal - disapproving) speech or writing that is intended to influence people - but that is not completely honest or sincere
rhetoric
salient
criteria
tentative
24. A collection of different things or different type of the same thing
hull
assortment
compile
repulsed
25. Very dry; having no or little rain
grant
proponent
progenitor
arid
26. Starving
innuendo
conceal
famished
relish
27. An idea - a belief or an understanding of shth
virulent
notion
salient
venerate
28. To agree to give sb what they ask for especially formal or legal permission to do sth
reticent
grant
ungainly
alias
29. Tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general
conventional
hasty
misconstrue
arid
30. To enjoy or desire much
proponent
titillate
conjecture
relish
31. The stopping of sth; giving birth to baby by taking them out of the mother through a surgery
meager
cessation
pyromaniac
envision
32. To depend on something
pseudonym
hinges on
misnomer
rejoinder
33. In syncopated rhythm the strong beats are made weak and the weak beats are made strong
viscous
mirth
syncopated
rubric
34. Extremely complicated and difficult to follow; (formal) having many twits or curves
wax and wane
grin
convoluted
deficit
35. To refuse - reject in a proud way
displace
havoc
spurn
condone
36. Clever at understanding and making judgments about
notion
enthrall with
flimsy
expatriate
37. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
benchmark
undertake
mime
periphery
38. Unexpectedly amusing
preeminent
expatriate
droll
impetus
39. (of actions that are considered bad) done in an obvious and open way without caring if people are shocked
blatant
venerate
altruistic
patron
40. (literary) to increase then decrease in strength - importance - etc. over a period of time
wax and wane
barrage
jangle
arid
41. To punish or make sb suffer
conceal
harbinger
metes out
egregious
42. Revoke; to sate that a law - contract - decision - etc. is no longer valid
eradication
compile
rescind
lamentable
43. Having many sexual partners; taking from a wide range of sources - especially without careful thought
flimsy
entitle
promiscuous
sturdy
44. Not seeming to be based on a reason - system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair
arbitrary
cynically
repudiate
fidelity
45. Very serious
grin
dire
courtly
unpalatable
46. To make sb less angry about sth
spawn
placate
eradication
ungainly
47. To break under pressure
displace
relish
instrumental
shear
48. Incompetent; not having the skill
inept
reticent
dreary
ghastly
49. A person who believe it is not possible to know whether God exists or not
cynically
ascetic
altruistic
agnostic
50. Unpleasant and not easy to accept
blatant
unpalatable
phenomenon
placid