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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 make sth smaller or weak
fidelity
compile
curt
diminish
2. To make sb decide to do sth; to cause sth to happen
prompt
applicable
patron
reticent
3. Having long arms and legs and moving in and awkward way
sole
monetary
lanky
convoluted
4. To give sb the right to do sth
periphery
arid
patriarchal
entitle
5. (formal) to start to do sth new or difficult
embark on
cessation
redundant
spurious
6. The act of conceding
ascetic
concession
placid
viable
7. Plunge
plummet
glum
repudiate
altruistic
8. Not define or certain because you may want to change it later; hesitant
deficit
incensed
rubric
tentative
9. Clever at understanding and making judgments about
fauna
enthrall with
deprecate
mementos
10. Full of energy - excitement and happiness
addendum
exuberant
spawn
ammunition
11. Very sad
rhetoric
mournful
effusive
entitle
12. To agree to give sb what they ask for especially formal or legal permission to do sth
grant
jangle
provincial
prompt
13. A person living in a country that's not their own
clash with
verbose
expatriate
farce
14. They physical feature of an area of land - especially the position of its mountains - rivers - etc.
misconstrue
sole
innuendo
topography
15. Needing great effort and energy
strenuous
utilitarian
obsequious
repulsed
16. A standard or principle by which sth is judged
criteria
lofty
egregious
benefactor
17. (informal) different from what most people expect
offbeat
utilitarian
humility
jangle
18. A series of unpleasant things that happen
lofty
discreet
sodden
rash
19. Very expensive and looking very impressive
warily
sumptuous
rash
phenomenon
20. Never changing therefore boring
benchmark
grant
spurious
monotonously
21. A reply - especially a quick critical or amusing
rejoinder
hasty
discreet
rescind
22. Focus more on function than other qualities
viciously
utilitarian
wax and wane
superfluous
23. A solider who will fight for any country or group that offers payment
writ
candor
condone
mercenary
24. A situation of earning less than owed of spent
deficit
glum
harbinger
rout
25. To establish sth very firmly so that it's very difficult to change
entrench
expatriate
blistering
venerate
26. To make sb less angry about sth
titillate
impetus
placate
rout
27. The quality of being completely honest
sturdy
probity
clump
vague
28. To make unpleasant sound
agnostic
jangle
benign
meager
29. Extremely upset and anxious so that you can't think clearly
forlorn
bustling
distraught
curmudgeon
30. To refuse - reject in a proud way
multifarious
spurn
embark on
bequeath
31. Not important or serious; not worth considering
ascetic
agnostic
trivial
delve into
32. = mime; = farce
hinges on
omit
laconic
pantomime
33. Clear and easy to understand
explicitly
rubric
entitle
innuendo
34. Badly made and not strong enough for the purpose for which it is used
morale
flimsy
rash
candor
35. To destroy completely or accidentally
demolish
multifarious
misconstrue
writ
36. To copy sth exactly
replicate
enthrall with
rarefy
leaden
37. Giving enthusiastic praise 'in glowing terms'
venue
salient
glowing
egregious
38. Extremely bad
provincial
inept
egregious
dire
39. A natural or artificial lake that keeps water before it is taken by pipes to houses - etc.
repulsed
integrity
reservoir
effusive
40. To move in an awkward way - pushing people around out of the way or crash into them
formality
barge
wax and wane
verbose
41. To have pity on sth you want to have that you used to have
obtuse
wistfully
cede
unrest
42. A sign that shows that sth is going to happen - often bad
relish
proponent
repulsed
harbinger
43. To stop sb do sth from his atempt
liberator
hybrid
thwart
replicate
44. To make you sad
condone
displace
dreary
arbitrary
45. (disapproving) trying to appear important - intelligent - etc - in order to impress other people
magnify
enthrall with
reservoir
pretentious
46. Revoke; to sate that a law - contract - decision - etc. is no longer valid
cede
hierarchical
rescind
displace
47. Ambiguous
multifarious
patron
spawn
equivocal
48. (formal) words which sound important but have little meaning - used to impress people
provincial
bombastic
cede
spurn
49. To be respected very much as being very important or holy
niche
farce
lofty
venerate
50. Small and poor in quality
verbose
obtuse
ration
meager