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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 talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
enact
sole
totter
elicited
2. To make sth into catalogue
patriarchal
confront
catalogue
totter
3. Able to spread around
provincial
applicable
multifarious
infectious
4. Believing that everything happened for selfish reasons; being selfish when doing things
equivocal
rescind
applicable
cynically
5. Never changing
envision
glum
unvarying
vetiver
6. Very important in making sth to happen
timorous
conceal
ungainly
instrumental
7. To make yourself responsible for sth
courtly
persistently
undertake
rash
8. To become gradually weaker or less important
patriarchal
wane
deficit
ammunition
9. Horrible or terrible
ghastly
exemption
reservoir
viscous
10. Unexpectedly amusing
scanty
conventional
droll
misnomer
11. Happiness - fun and the sound of people laughing
ration
catalogue
belligerent
mirth
12. Not enough
retelling
ammunition
prudence
scanty
13. (formal) to understand sb's words or action wrongly
salient
resemble
patron
misconstrue
14. (formal) to prove that sth is wrong; to say that sth is not true or fair
indigenous
procure
niche
refute
15. To move away sth
entitle
metes out
multifarious
displace
16. (formal) to say in a will that you want sb to have your property - money - etc. after your die.
mournful
barrage
ascetic
bequeath
17. Careful in what you say or do to keep sth secret
patron
strenuous
discreet
voluminous
18. Not seeming to be based on a reason - system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair
condone
heirloom
arbitrary
rejoinder
19. To obtain - especially with difficulty
upbraid
miserly
glowing
procure
20. (adj.) a problem that is difficult to deal wit
wax and wane
persistently
extent
vexed
21. To agree to give sb what they ask for especially formal or legal permission to do sth
discreet
topography
lanky
grant
22. Imply; to tell or say sth indirectly that it is true
laconic
voluminous
entrench
insinuate
23. Wipe out
replicate
unpalatable
vague
exterminate
24. To get onto a sheep
embark
reservoir
preeminent
wane
25. To refuse - reject in a proud way
lofty
spurn
courtly
stipend
26. Revoke; to sate that a law - contract - decision - etc. is no longer valid
rescind
equivocal
dreary
entreat
27. Focus more on function than other qualities
placid
curmudgeon
catalogue
utilitarian
28. = mime; = farce
dexterous
barge
fallacy
pantomime
29. To put your feet down noisily and heavily as you walk
sodden
clump
pseudonym
ascetic
30. Not needed or useful
morale
deprecate
redundant
erosion
31. To have foretold vision
resemble
envision
beguile
demolish
32. Not interesting or exciting
genial
mundane
seedy
sodden
33. (disapproving) to be slow and unwilling to understand sth
chock back
obtuse
agnostic
captive
34. A fake name of a criminal or actor
alias
leaden
resemble
wistfully
35. Dull gray - like lead
lanky
able-bodied
leaden
upbraid
36. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
feign
persistently
rail at
blistering
37. To produce a book - list - report - etc. by bringing together different items - articles - songs - etc.
catalogue
misnomer
ascetic
compile
38. Only; single
sole
addendum
extolling
accomplice
39. Search inside sth
incensed
delve into
wistfully
sumptuous
40. A natural or artificial lake that keeps water before it is taken by pipes to houses - etc.
reapportion
reservoir
elicited
mundane
41. (of actions that are considered bad) done in an obvious and open way without caring if people are shocked
blatant
haste
precipitate
relinquish
42. Having long arms and legs and moving in and awkward way
lanky
repudiate
able-bodied
droll
43. To refuse to accept sth (=reject)
obsequious
superfluous
repudiate
divulge
44. Connected with money
morale
mementos
monetary
extolling
45. (spots) done very fast with great energy
garrulous
illuminate
patriarchal
blistering
46. To enjoy or desire much
vexed
premonition
procure
relish
47. (man) to sing or play music to a woman of his love outside under the window
monetary
serenade
catalogue
strenuous
48. To trick sb into doing sth - especially by being nice to them
beguile
timorous
altruistic
alias
49. Something that encourage a process or activity
impetus
timorous
bequeath
mirth
50. A funny play for the theater based on ridiculous and unlikely situation and events
arsonist
grant
farce
extent