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SAT Critical Reading Vocab
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Subjects
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To praise sb/sth very much
procure
periphery
extolling
niche
2. Concerned with making people live better
cede
humanitarian
repulsed
laconic
3. To punish by officially kick sb out of a Christian Church
grudgingly
excommunicate
plummet
hierarchical
4. To make unpleasant sound
jangle
unpalatable
droll
precipitate
5. (spots) done very fast with great energy
blistering
vague
premonition
lanky
6. Careful when dealing with sb/sth because you think that there may be a danger or problem
warily
ammunition
infectious
instrumental
7. To make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way
disrupt
chivalry
tentative
relish
8. A person living in a country that's not their own
entrench
redundant
expatriate
promiscuous
9. To be worried and anxious
famished
premonition
offbeat
perturbed
10. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
flimsy
benchmark
spurious
rescind
11. Supply of bullets
incensed
ammunition
venue
clash with
12. To make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse (=worsen)
aggravate
monotonously
dearth
nourish
13. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
reticent
magnify
rejoinder
persistently
14. Tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general
rout
conventional
subvert
rarefy
15. A highly poisonous chemical
rash
cyanide
salient
fallacy
16. The amount of confidence and enthusiasm
morale
periphery
scanty
precarious
17. Only; single
exemption
rhetoric
sole
disrupt
18. Not define or certain because you may want to change it later; hesitant
wane
undertake
tentative
morale
19. Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
founder
ascetic
displace
cynically
20. A solider who will fight for any country or group that offers payment
precarious
mercenary
preeminent
altruistic
21. 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
mirth
verbose
chivalry
accomplice
22. Needing great effort and energy
strenuous
viscous
courtly
hinges on
23. A person who helps in criminal incidents
equivocal
replicate
altruistic
accomplice
24. To move in an awkward way - pushing people around out of the way or crash into them
rail at
exterminate
barge
frugal
25. A fragrant extract or essential oil obtained from the root of an Indian grass - used in perfumery and aromatherapy
vetiver
frugal
conventional
amorous
26. To make into compartment (room)
rubric
conglomeration
compartmentalize
wax
27. Rude because sth done quickly or using very few words
curt
benign
harbinger
phenomenon
28. Unpleasant and not easy to accept
bustling
coax
imprudence
unpalatable
29. The main bottom part of a ship that goes in the water
enthrall with
repudiate
hull
progenitor
30. How serious - important - large sth is
embark
extent
leaden
egregious
31. To look like or be similar to another person or thing
resemble
vexed
bestow
feign
32. (formal) words which sound important but have little meaning - used to impress people
delve into
bombastic
deficit
denounce
33. Money paid regularly to sb as wages
bestow
stipend
miserly
humanitarian
34. Very dry; having no or little rain
strenuous
cyanide
heirloom
arid
35. The outer edge of a particular area
periphery
hinges on
progenitor
rhetoric
36. Someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
offbeat
stolid
liberator
catalogue
37. To do or be better than sb/sth
sumptuous
enact
vague
surpass
38. (of actions that are considered bad) done in an obvious and open way without caring if people are shocked
glowing
dilution
obsequious
blatant
39. Not seeming to be based on a reason - system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair
arbitrary
bestow
offbeat
nourish
40. An animal or a plant of parents from different species
alias
conceal
hybrid
farce
41. To talk sb into gently
multifarious
coax
entrench
ungainly
42. (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
salient
famished
extent
43. A series of unpleasant things that happen
jangle
rash
amorous
venue
44. To give sb the right to do sth
entitle
fidelity
conventional
aggravate
45. To destroy completely or accidentally
notion
proponent
demolish
fauna
46. To refuse to accept sth (=reject)
cyanide
repudiate
placid
liberator
47. The act of conceding
embark on
concession
aggravate
integrity
48. Physically strong and healthy
warily
able-bodied
notion
scanty
49. Very expensive and looking very impressive
sumptuous
undertake
ascetic
belligerent
50. To put your feet down noisily and heavily as you walk
entrench
clump
nourish
proponent