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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 take control of a country - region - etc - especially by force
obtuse
insinuate
refute
annex
2. Moving in a way that is not smooth or elegant
ungainly
sodden
incensed
concession
3. Careful when dealing with sb/sth because you think that there may be a danger or problem
warily
effusive
inept
displace
4. The sate of not having any energy or enthusiasm for doing things
offbeat
lamentable
lethargy
precipitate
5. To make sth bigger - louder - stronger
conceal
magnify
haste
disseminate
6. To get info or reaction - especially with difficulty
spawn
elicited
benchmark
arid
7. Having long arms and legs and moving in and awkward way
prudence
annex
lanky
reticent
8. (formal) to shine light on sth; = clarify; = light up
enthrall with
inept
illuminate
cognizant
9. Focus more on function than other qualities
utilitarian
conglomeration
compile
replicate
10. An idea - a belief or an understanding of shth
glowing
notion
prevalent
bestow
11. (of actions that are considered bad) done in an obvious and open way without caring if people are shocked
retelling
lethargy
blatant
reapportion
12. To depend on something
beguile
scanty
obtuse
hinges on
13. Violent and brutal
harbinger
beguile
viciously
fidelity
14. (formal - disapproving) using or containing more words than are neede
bout
clash with
verbose
progenitor
15. Of many kinds; having great variety
benign
warily
multifarious
sodden
16. Starving
famished
obsequious
offbeat
stipend
17. Attack or criticize sb/sth severely on public
lambaste
miserly
feign
niche
18. A political situation in which people are angry and likely to pretest or fight
inept
dreary
unrest
embark
19. Careful in what you say or do to keep sth secret
discreet
pretentious
mime
miserly
20. Rule d and controlled by men
fidelity
patriarchal
embark
obtuse
21. give up
haste
relinquish
resemble
totter
22. To make sth weaker
acerbic
undertake
dilution
effusive
23. A funny play for the theater based on ridiculous and unlikely situation and events
farce
cede
hull
entitle
24. A person living in a country that's not their own
expatriate
provincial
heirloom
illuminate
25. To move in an awkward way - pushing people around out of the way or crash into them
barge
curt
periphery
dilution
26. Full of people moving around in a busy way
bustling
able-bodied
unrest
cyanide
27. To refuse - reject in a proud way
conventional
spurn
writ
hasty
28. The fact of caring about the needs and happiness of other people more than your own
promiscuous
delve into
altruistic
benefactor
29. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
totter
titillate
mournful
deprecate
30. A situation of destruction - damage and confusion
condone
havoc
editorial
mournful
31. Sensible and careful when you make judgments and decisions - avoiding unnecessary risks
wane
dearth
prudence
mirth
32. To limit the amount of sth that sb is allowed to have
delve into
ration
mirth
arsonist
33. A series of unpleasant things that happen
reapportion
rash
belligerent
deficit
34. Not wise or sensible
periphery
fauna
imprudence
blistering
35. They physical feature of an area of land - especially the position of its mountains - rivers - etc.
penchant
pyromaniac
topography
enthrall with
36. To reduce sth by a large amount so that there's not enough left
reticent
sole
deplete
enthrall with
37. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
mournful
embark
rarefy
placid
38. Dirty of any kind
dreary
viscous
embark
grudgingly
39. The act of conceding
concession
fauna
verbose
resemble
40. A match of boxing/wrestling
bustling
offbeat
excommunicate
bout
41. To make sb decide to do sth; to cause sth to happen
feral
blistering
rejoinder
prompt
42. = mime; = farce
explicitly
pantomime
insinuate
reservoir
43. Clear and easy to understand
convoluted
explicitly
concession
indefatigable
44. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
indigenous
aggravate
jangle
spurn
45. Not easily irritated
meager
placid
pretentious
confront
46. (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
miserly
disseminate
ascetic
47. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
persistently
incentive
misconstrue
unvarying
48. Speed in doing sth - especially because you do not have enough time
haste
frugal
lethargy
disrupt
49. Narrow-minded
cognizant
agnostic
provincial
morale
50. Search inside sth
venue
altruistic
verbose
delve into