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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. = mime; = farce
annex
subsidize
pantomime
convoluted
2. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
cessation
barrage
cynically
totter
3. Full of people moving around in a busy way
dilution
bustling
metes out
curmudgeon
4. To make you sad
rejoinder
dreary
persistently
rhetoric
5. (formal) to start to do sth new or difficult
embark on
exuberant
promiscuous
compile
6. To make sb less angry about sth
demolish
placate
ration
feign
7. Focus more on function than other qualities
provincial
concession
lanky
utilitarian
8. Plunge
annex
mundane
plummet
conglomeration
9. The quality of being humble
lamentable
garrulous
humility
viable
10. To make into compartment (room)
compartmentalize
deficit
cynically
disseminate
11. Starving
lambaste
famished
alias
prescribed
12. Extremely polite and full of respect - especially in an old-fashioned way
rejoinder
courtly
diminish
accomplice
13. To have foretold vision
conjecture
retelling
envision
seedy
14. A political situation in which people are angry and likely to pretest or fight
unrest
infectious
grin
ghastly
15. Something that encourages you to do sth
premonition
vexed
incentive
exuberant
16. Not noticeable or obvious
voluminous
surpass
subtle
rash
17. To make sb decide to do sth; to cause sth to happen
prompt
misnomer
verbose
farce
18. Ambiguous
arsonist
equivocal
reticent
curt
19. Badly made and not strong enough for the purpose for which it is used
divulge
stipend
flimsy
spurious
20. Official of not to do/pay what you normally have to
altruistic
integrity
exemption
delve into
21. (literary) to increase then decrease in strength - importance - etc. over a period of time
effusive
viscous
wax and wane
incentive
22. A legal document from a court of order
dilution
writ
founder
viciously
23. To obtain - especially with difficulty
demolish
inept
lanky
procure
24. (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
cynically
placate
droll
formality
25. To talk sb into gently
omit
dilution
hierarchical
coax
26. To have pity on sth you want to have that you used to have
wistfully
morale
ghastly
convoluted
27. Very high (loft=attic)
proponent
condone
lofty
serenade
28. To agree to give sb what they ask for especially formal or legal permission to do sth
grant
superfluous
reticent
amorous
29. That can be said to be true in the case of sb/sth
persistently
applicable
indefatigable
bestow
30. Of many kinds; having great variety
sole
hull
timorous
multifarious
31. The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
refute
penchant
candor
famished
32. A situation that sth is defeated easily and completely
demolish
rout
equivocal
entrench
33. Rule as emperor - king - or queen
misconstrue
reign over
wax
timorous
34. A highly poisonous chemical
cyanide
compartmentalize
incensed
precipitate
35. To make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way
reticent
disrupt
wax and wane
feign
36. Not interesting or exciting
mundane
repudiate
expatriate
cynically
37. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
garrulous
persistently
lambaste
niche
38. (formal) to form an opinion about sth even though you do not have much information on it
verbose
mundane
dire
conjecture
39. Souvenir
mementos
curt
promiscuous
compile
40. Having a good effect on sb/sth - though often seeming unpleasant
fallacy
salutary
wax
pretentious
41. Wipe out
exterminate
extent
wax
conglomeration
42. (disapproving) trying to appear important - intelligent - etc - in order to impress other people
lambaste
viciously
pretentious
bustling
43. (formal) knowledge or understanding of sth
garrulous
warily
topography
cognizant
44. Allocate - distribute - or apportion anew
metes out
salient
reapportion
grant
45. To get onto a sheep
phenomenon
garrulous
embark
candor
46. Extremely complicated and difficult to follow; (formal) having many twits or curves
promiscuous
leaden
convoluted
salutary
47. To perform a play or act a part in a play; to pass a law
enact
rarefy
eradication
hybrid
48. To pretend to have a particular feeling
feign
viciously
infectious
resemble
49. Incompetent; not having the skill
inept
droll
utilitarian
divulge
50. Not wise or sensible
imprudence
mercenary
dreary
niche