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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 criticize sb or speak angrily to them because you don't approve what they have done or said
famished
upbraid
prompt
chock back
2. To talk or move with weak unsteady steps - especially because you are drunk or ill/sick
seedy
totter
writ
omit
3. Souvenir
mementos
replicate
lofty
effusive
4. give up
benchmark
plummet
relinquish
bustling
5. Horrible or terrible
fallacy
conjecture
ghastly
venue
6. Unexpectedly amusing
bustling
relish
droll
founder
7. (adj.) a problem that is difficult to deal wit
repulsed
trivial
farce
vexed
8. (formal - disapproving) using or containing more words than are neede
conventional
syncopated
verbose
hierarchical
9. Focus more on function than other qualities
tentative
utilitarian
spawn
subsidize
10. Extremely upset and anxious so that you can't think clearly
metes out
bout
monotonously
distraught
11. The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
able-bodied
candor
reluctant
deficit
12. A highly poisonous chemical
bestow
indigenous
multifarious
cyanide
13. The complete destruction of every trace of something
salient
eradication
excommunicate
progenitor
14. To make sth smaller or weak
plummet
infectious
probity
diminish
15. Not define or certain because you may want to change it later; hesitant
grin
unvarying
tentative
ghastly
16. (formal) to feel and express strong disapproving of sth
rash
acerbic
erosion
deprecate
17. 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
inept
chivalry
criteria
aggravate
18. A false idea many people believe to be true; a logic false in thinking about sth
fallacy
titillate
fidelity
reign over
19. = mime; = farce
excommunicate
lethargy
fauna
pantomime
20. Most important and noticeable
captive
rescind
salient
hybrid
21. Name or word that is not accurate or appropriate
reign over
misnomer
reservoir
indefatigable
22. To put your feet down noisily and heavily as you walk
clump
seedy
inept
conventional
23. (disapproving) to be slow and unwilling to understand sth
fallacy
famished
obtuse
hybrid
24. (formal - disapproving) trying too hard to please sb - especially sb who is important
belligerent
entrench
forlorn
obsequious
25. Hurried - especially when this has bad results
lamentable
hasty
jangle
bequeath
26. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
frugal
preeminent
ascetic
incensed
27. Not interesting or exciting
verbose
mundane
proponent
deficit
28. Tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general
conventional
procure
sumptuous
addendum
29. Too small; (of a person) hating to spend money
miserly
penchant
condone
prevalent
30. A political situation in which people are angry and likely to pretest or fight
exuberant
cede
unrest
flimsy
31. Showing much or too much emotion
clash with
effusive
bustling
arid
32. Someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
syncopated
concession
cessation
liberator
33. A mix of different things found together
annex
viciously
hinges on
conglomeration
34. Reveal a secret
arbitrary
benchmark
phenomenon
divulge
35. Never changing
reticent
unvarying
repulsed
notion
36. That can be done; that will be successful (= feasible); (biology) capable of developing and surviving independently
accomplice
viable
voluminous
perturbed
37. To deal with a problem or difficult situation
alias
leaden
confront
prescribed
38. Something that encourages you to do sth
hull
incentive
unrest
curt
39. A bad sense of something will happen
trivial
stipend
premonition
lofty
40. A solider who will fight for any country or group that offers payment
hull
rhetoric
mercenary
relish
41. (formal) to form an opinion about sth even though you do not have much information on it
conjecture
expatriate
mirth
persistently
42. A name used b y writer that is not real
prompt
pseudonym
blistering
vetiver
43. Allocate - distribute - or apportion anew
reapportion
laconic
glowing
resemble
44. A situation of destruction - damage and confusion
miserly
bombastic
havoc
formality
45. Official of not to do/pay what you normally have to
hybrid
exemption
trivial
farce
46. (formal) to understand sb's words or action wrongly
curmudgeon
subvert
syncopated
misconstrue
47. (formal - disapproving) speech or writing that is intended to influence people - but that is not completely honest or sincere
pantomime
promiscuous
rhetoric
ammunition
48. A person who commit the crime of setting fire
altruistic
hull
arsonist
enthrall with
49. Understood or experienced by only a small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge on or activity
blatant
feral
rarefy
effusive
50. To tell again
retelling
enact
able-bodied
reign over