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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. (disapproving) trying to appear important - intelligent - etc - in order to impress other people
prescribed
shear
pretentious
dire
2. Moving in a way that is not smooth or elegant
lethargy
heirloom
ungainly
rescind
3. A highly poisonous chemical
miserly
cyanide
cede
hybrid
4. (formal) knowledge or understanding of sth
able-bodied
cognizant
salient
blatant
5. Very large
reluctant
voluminous
hull
warily
6. Needing great effort and energy
inept
strenuous
serenade
syncopated
7. Wipe out
delve into
exterminate
grudgingly
excommunicate
8. An idea - a belief or an understanding of shth
notion
enthrall with
promiscuous
hinges on
9. Very sad
mournful
cognizant
indefatigable
provincial
10. A man in the Middle Ages who promised to fight for and be loyal to a king or other powerful owner of land
concession
exuberant
discreet
vassal
11. The stopping of sth; giving birth to baby by taking them out of the mother through a surgery
curmudgeon
cessation
relish
omit
12. Small and poor in quality
genial
rescind
deficit
meager
13. Giving enthusiastic praise 'in glowing terms'
beguile
glowing
exterminate
able-bodied
14. Only; single
sole
jangle
pretentious
entitle
15. To hide sth
venerate
conceal
dearth
blatant
16. (informal) different from what most people expect
offbeat
vassal
frugal
wax
17. St that can be measured and used as a standard that other things can be compared with
laconic
benchmark
omit
pseudonym
18. To suddenly cause sth bad to happen
able-bodied
venerate
deficit
precipitate
19. Nervous and easily frightened
obsequious
stipend
bestow
timorous
20. Narrow-minded
provincial
stolid
deprecate
prudence
21. Sad - quite and unhappy
subtle
precipitate
glum
relish
22. Being lack of variety
extolling
farce
explicitly
monotony
23. To destroy completely or accidentally
viscous
assortment
belligerent
demolish
24. To establish sth very firmly so that it's very difficult to change
exemption
entrench
promiscuous
stolid
25. More than you need or want
venerate
superfluous
disrupt
leaden
26. Souvenir
disrupt
disseminate
bestow
mementos
27. A fragrant extract or essential oil obtained from the root of an Indian grass - used in perfumery and aromatherapy
refute
vetiver
delve into
preeminent
28. To refuse to accept sth (=reject)
delve into
hull
perturbed
repudiate
29. Something that encourage a process or activity
flimsy
demolish
impetus
conventional
30. To move in an awkward way - pushing people around out of the way or crash into them
writ
notion
pseudonym
barge
31. That can be said to be true in the case of sb/sth
dreary
applicable
obsequious
integrity
32. To make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse (=worsen)
benefactor
wistfully
illuminate
aggravate
33. To give sb the right to do sth
prevalent
pseudonym
clash with
entitle
34. To fill with water and sink; to fail because of a particular problem
founder
condone
pretentious
laconic
35. Starving
grin
prompt
famished
humanitarian
36. Allocate - distribute - or apportion anew
tentative
reapportion
writ
voluminous
37. To make it difficult for sth to continue in the normal way
disrupt
mercenary
subsidize
eradication
38. To get onto a sheep
mournful
embark
chivalry
barge
39. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
probity
persistently
genial
grudgingly
40. (of the moon) to seem to get gradually bigger until its full form is visible
repudiate
hull
distraught
wax
41. Money paid regularly to sb as wages
stipend
instrumental
stolid
impetus
42. To make sb less angry about sth
placate
glowing
viciously
reluctant
43. The continuous firing of a large amour of guns in a particular direction
subvert
replicate
courtly
barrage
44. (literary) to increase then decrease in strength - importance - etc. over a period of time
mournful
agnostic
lanky
wax and wane
45. False - although seeming to be genuine
spurious
virulent
progenitor
exterminate
46. A false idea many people believe to be true; a logic false in thinking about sth
benchmark
genial
fallacy
arbitrary
47. = mime; = farce
pantomime
liberator
impetus
rout
48. Most important and noticeable
lofty
voluminous
salient
egregious
49. To punish or make sb suffer
metes out
voluminous
coax
precarious
50. Not enough
scanty
chivalry
founder
indefatigable