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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. A person who helps in criminal incidents
seedy
pseudonym
virulent
accomplice
2. Dull gray - like lead
leaden
dearth
bequeath
fidelity
3. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
innuendo
indigenous
frugal
lamentable
4. A lack of sth
precipitate
dearth
infectious
fallacy
5. A person who gives money or other help to a person or an organization
benefactor
shear
grudgingly
mementos
6. Concerned with making people live better
humanitarian
deplete
cynically
haste
7. To break under pressure
probity
promiscuous
shear
mournful
8. Needing great effort and energy
alias
retelling
progenitor
strenuous
9. (formal - disapproving) using or containing more words than are neede
deprecate
altruistic
verbose
catalogue
10. A situation of destruction - damage and confusion
havoc
omit
titillate
monotonously
11. Horrible or terrible
monotonously
relish
ghastly
persistently
12. Only; single
sole
surpass
monotony
diminish
13. To move in an awkward way - pushing people around out of the way or crash into them
omit
conglomeration
compartmentalize
barge
14. To spread information - knowledge - etc - so that it reaches many people
vassal
disseminate
cede
lambaste
15. A performance using gestures and body movements without words
spawn
morale
glum
mime
16. (disapproving) to be slow and unwilling to understand sth
envision
formality
obtuse
harbinger
17. To make into compartment (room)
conglomeration
illuminate
addendum
compartmentalize
18. A place where people meet for an organized event - for example a concert - sporting event - or conference
mirth
progenitor
repudiate
venue
19. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
deplete
bustling
metes out
persistently
20. (spots) done very fast with great energy
blistering
divulge
indigenous
inept
21. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
rarefy
metes out
captive
prevalent
22. Skill with your hands; skilfully done
extolling
dexterous
imprudence
pretentious
23. Small and poor in quality
acerbic
wistfully
procure
meager
24. How serious - important - large sth is
extent
replicate
refute
alias
25. Sth valuable that has passed down within a family
demolish
heirloom
venue
cynically
26. A code that knights adopted in the late Middle Ages; requiring them to be brave - loyal and true to their word; they had to fight fairly in battle
chivalry
superfluous
scanty
humility
27. Not easily irritated
repudiate
totter
placid
trivial
28. Hurried - especially when this has bad results
refute
dire
hasty
thwart
29. Lonely and unhappy
conglomeration
forlorn
lanky
rout
30. To fell disgust or strong dislike
placate
mirth
repulsed
garrulous
31. Regulated
metes out
prescribed
venue
rubric
32. A series of unpleasant things that happen
rash
curt
pseudonym
havoc
33. To make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way
prompt
tentative
disrupt
repudiate
34. To be respected very much as being very important or holy
amorous
magnify
retelling
venerate
35. To become gradually weaker or less important
wane
rescind
convoluted
dire
36. Starving
famished
diminish
integrity
courtly
37. Very angry
haste
hinges on
placid
incensed
38. = mime; = farce
pantomime
dilution
rout
venue
39. Dirty and unpleasant - usually with immortal or illegal activities
timorous
pyromaniac
mime
seedy
40. To reduce sth by a large amount so that there's not enough left
mementos
editorial
deplete
blistering
41. The quality of being completely honest
rail at
promiscuous
probity
reservoir
42. Name or word that is not accurate or appropriate
scanty
conglomeration
reticent
misnomer
43. Very important in making sth to happen
instrumental
sodden
inept
courtly
44. Having many sexual partners; taking from a wide range of sources - especially without careful thought
promiscuous
cede
indigenous
disrupt
45. To make sth smaller or weak
diminish
reapportion
deprecate
condone
46. To criticize sb or speak angrily to them because you don't approve what they have done or said
upbraid
rout
formality
spurious
47. (literary) to increase then decrease in strength - importance - etc. over a period of time
wax and wane
enthrall with
grin
erosion
48. Not define or certain because you may want to change it later; hesitant
tentative
reservoir
lofty
mirth
49. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
cyanide
lamentable
benchmark
mournful
50. To get onto a sheep
embark
acerbic
equivocal
courtly