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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 series of unpleasant things that happen
unrest
rash
incensed
famished
2. Connected with money
monetary
exterminate
trivial
pyromaniac
3. A standard or principle by which sth is judged
criteria
leaden
miserly
equivocal
4. Having long arms and legs and moving in and awkward way
patron
rash
extent
lanky
5. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
prevalent
benchmark
fallacy
provincial
6. Skill with your hands; skilfully done
dexterous
preeminent
extent
subtle
7. Small and poor in quality
vassal
meager
barge
alias
8. To get info or reaction - especially with difficulty
prevalent
elicited
undertake
agnostic
9. Search inside sth
conceal
embark on
delve into
displace
10. Violent and brutal
incentive
viciously
humanitarian
mournful
11. Having many sexual partners; taking from a wide range of sources - especially without careful thought
deprecate
promiscuous
disrupt
mundane
12. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
entitle
rarefy
provincial
syncopated
13. The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
famished
delve into
candor
subsidize
14. Very disappointing
elicited
humanitarian
innuendo
lamentable
15. Regulated
prescribed
fallacy
shear
rescind
16. Lonely and unhappy
forlorn
cessation
cyanide
barrage
17. A funny play for the theater based on ridiculous and unlikely situation and events
preeminent
entitle
farce
droll
18. Narrow-minded
notion
resemble
bestow
provincial
19. Extremely complicated and difficult to follow; (formal) having many twits or curves
verbose
convoluted
imprudence
omit
20. Showing much or too much emotion
ration
deplete
cyanide
effusive
21. (formal) to understand sb's words or action wrongly
deficit
imprudence
unpalatable
misconstrue
22. To move away sth
notion
meager
mournful
displace
23. Rude because sth done quickly or using very few words
obsequious
curt
subsidize
prescribed
24. Rule as emperor - king - or queen
distraught
reign over
entrench
scanty
25. To leave out
omit
offbeat
humility
hull
26. Very angry
chivalry
incensed
monetary
dreary
27. Very serious
erosion
illuminate
lamentable
dire
28. Ancestor
progenitor
barrage
heirloom
niche
29. To punish or make sb suffer
displace
grant
metes out
mementos
30. To do or be better than sb/sth
cynically
impetus
surpass
compile
31. That can be done; that will be successful (= feasible); (biology) capable of developing and surviving independently
viable
reservoir
harbinger
monetary
32. Clear and easy to understand
monotony
stipend
dire
explicitly
33. Attack or criticize sb/sth severely on public
glum
lambaste
meager
wax
34. undermine -> to make sth - especially sb's confidence or authority - gradually weaker or less effective
sole
farce
subvert
perturbed
35. Starving
refute
reluctant
famished
grant
36. Sad - quite and unhappy
phenomenon
offbeat
glum
persistently
37. A performance using gestures and body movements without words
chock back
cognizant
titillate
mime
38. A match of boxing/wrestling
bout
courtly
altruistic
havoc
39. To criticize sb or speak angrily to them because you don't approve what they have done or said
perturbed
bout
viciously
upbraid
40. (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
ammunition
lofty
reapportion
41. An indirect remark about sb/sth - usually suggesting sth bad or rude.
pyromaniac
amorous
grudgingly
innuendo
42. A bad sense of something will happen
premonition
chock back
excommunicate
benchmark
43. Able to spread around
reservoir
rail at
infectious
diminish
44. To refuse - reject in a proud way
vetiver
prompt
spurn
chock back
45. 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
incensed
able-bodied
dire
chivalry
46. Hesitating before doing sth because you don't want to do it or because you aren't sure that if it's the right thing to do
vetiver
mercenary
reluctant
hinges on
47. To make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way
disrupt
harbinger
vassal
mournful
48. More than you need or want
rash
syncopated
coax
superfluous
49. Very expensive and looking very impressive
venerate
applicable
sumptuous
chivalry
50. (of the moon) to seem to get gradually bigger until its full form is visible
precarious
wax
curt
impetus