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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 be respected very much as being very important or holy
venerate
altruistic
patriarchal
superfluous
2. Not interesting or exciting
humanitarian
relish
hull
mundane
3. Very expensive and looking very impressive
denounce
sumptuous
accomplice
dilution
4. To praise sb/sth very much
monotonously
chock back
reapportion
extolling
5. Not needed or useful
catalogue
exuberant
hybrid
redundant
6. Extremely dangerous or harmful and quick to have a n effect
lamentable
mirth
resemble
virulent
7. Unable to escape; kept as a prisoner or in a confined space
jangle
captive
conjecture
dilution
8. A fake name of a criminal or actor
viciously
chock back
lethargy
alias
9. A reply - especially a quick critical or amusing
rejoinder
belligerent
notion
lethargy
10. How serious - important - large sth is
subvert
embark
enthrall with
extent
11. To make sth happen or be produced
ghastly
divulge
stipend
spawn
12. (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
formality
reservoir
editorial
belligerent
13. More than you need or want
patron
rescind
cynically
superfluous
14. A comfortable or suitable role - job - way of life - etc.
famished
niche
excommunicate
explicitly
15. To get onto a sheep
phenomenon
embark
subsidize
feign
16. Rude because sth done quickly or using very few words
omit
writ
disrupt
curt
17. To have foretold vision
humility
sumptuous
formality
envision
18. (of a liquid) thick and sticky; not flowing freely
viscous
topography
placate
pretentious
19. A mix of different things found together
conglomeration
phenomenon
stolid
redundant
20. To become gradually weaker or less important
wane
wistfully
stipend
repulsed
21. Believing that everything happened for selfish reasons; being selfish when doing things
cynically
heirloom
prompt
replicate
22. Very sad
elicited
blistering
mournful
unvarying
23. Horrible or terrible
fallacy
ghastly
rash
penchant
24. To stop sb do sth from his atempt
entreat
thwart
clump
virulent
25. Narrow-minded
provincial
embark
spawn
erosion
26. Talking a lot - especially about unimportant things
ascetic
indigenous
garrulous
extent
27. (formal) to say in a will that you want sb to have your property - money - etc. after your die.
blistering
bout
mementos
bequeath
28. To do or be better than sb/sth
droll
offbeat
surpass
reservoir
29. Official of not to do/pay what you normally have to
wane
enthrall with
exemption
mirth
30. (formal) to understand sb's words or action wrongly
enact
topography
writ
misconstrue
31. = mime; = farce
pantomime
humanitarian
retelling
mournful
32. Having a good effect on sb/sth - though often seeming unpleasant
fallacy
bout
salutary
hull
33. (informal) different from what most people expect
excommunicate
jangle
offbeat
stolid
34. Having many sexual partners; taking from a wide range of sources - especially without careful thought
promiscuous
agnostic
rhetoric
cyanide
35. The sate of not having any energy or enthusiasm for doing things
indigenous
rarefy
unvarying
lethargy
36. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
lamentable
phenomenon
totter
delve into
37. The stopping of sth; giving birth to baby by taking them out of the mother through a surgery
distraught
denounce
stolid
cessation
38. Unwilling to tell people about things
criteria
undertake
reticent
extent
39. To make into compartment (room)
omit
probity
compartmentalize
incensed
40. (disapproving) to interest or excite in a sexual way
titillate
fidelity
fauna
periphery
41. Not safe and certain; dangerous
exterminate
seedy
warily
precarious
42. A man in the Middle Ages who promised to fight for and be loyal to a king or other powerful owner of land
editorial
vassal
prudence
garrulous
43. Attack or criticize sb/sth severely on public
salient
reticent
lambaste
humility
44. Strong and not easily damaged
sturdy
vexed
notion
replicate
45. (formal) to prove that sth is wrong; to say that sth is not true or fair
editorial
meager
vexed
refute
46. Moving in a way that is not smooth or elegant
bombastic
courtly
ungainly
inept
47. Common - widespread
impetus
subtle
hybrid
prevalent
48. Organized of levels from high to low in a society
hierarchical
reluctant
rhetoric
scanty
49. To be worried and anxious
assortment
precipitate
rubric
perturbed
50. The outer edge of a particular area
sodden
precipitate
venerate
periphery