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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. (man) to sing or play music to a woman of his love outside under the window
incensed
havoc
embark on
serenade
2. Rule as emperor - king - or queen
annex
havoc
beguile
reign over
3. To become gradually weaker or less important
pyromaniac
wane
thwart
monotony
4. Very large
reservoir
cessation
voluminous
candor
5. Allocate - distribute - or apportion anew
reapportion
sturdy
farce
conceal
6. Determined to do sth despite difficulty - especially when people are against you and think that you are being annoying and unreasonable
criteria
persistently
insinuate
probity
7. Focus more on function than other qualities
entreat
utilitarian
vassal
incentive
8. To make yourself responsible for sth
bestow
dexterous
undertake
syncopated
9. Tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general
conventional
upbraid
mime
formality
10. To get info or reaction - especially with difficulty
infectious
spurious
elicited
humility
11. Showing sexual desire and love towards sb
amorous
effusive
provincial
rarefy
12. Attack or criticize sb/sth severely on public
fidelity
lambaste
liberator
prevalent
13. Lonely and unhappy
compartmentalize
forlorn
rout
rarefy
14. Rule d and controlled by men
lambaste
cognizant
stolid
patriarchal
15. Small and poor in quality
reticent
penchant
meager
glowing
16. To establish sth very firmly so that it's very difficult to change
jangle
multifarious
repudiate
entrench
17. (formal) to say in a will that you want sb to have your property - money - etc. after your die.
writ
bequeath
omit
tentative
18. How serious - important - large sth is
fauna
famished
disseminate
extent
19. To depend on something
hinges on
nourish
monotony
conjecture
20. To punish or make sb suffer
ration
cynically
metes out
unpalatable
21. To keep people - animals or plants alive and healthy by food - etc.
rescind
prudence
nourish
thwart
22. They physical feature of an area of land - especially the position of its mountains - rivers - etc.
topography
forlorn
wax and wane
lethargy
23. A highly poisonous chemical
cyanide
nourish
prompt
exterminate
24. A solider who will fight for any country or group that offers payment
sole
mercenary
spawn
rout
25. Having many sexual partners; taking from a wide range of sources - especially without careful thought
benchmark
rescind
amorous
promiscuous
26. Unpleasant and not easy to accept
unpalatable
incensed
prompt
unvarying
27. Something that encourage a process or activity
dilution
dreary
impetus
pseudonym
28. Not wise or sensible
deficit
eradication
imprudence
strenuous
29. The quality of being completely honest
farce
lanky
probity
denounce
30. Belonging to a particular place rather than coming to it from somewhere else (= native)
indigenous
ammunition
convoluted
haste
31. To refuse to accept sth (=reject)
subtle
altruistic
clump
repudiate
32. Plunge
bequeath
impetus
plummet
disrupt
33. Able to spread around
replicate
lethargy
applicable
infectious
34. A natural or artificial lake that keeps water before it is taken by pipes to houses - etc.
verbose
explicitly
reservoir
probity
35. To refuse - reject in a proud way
spurn
plummet
divulge
curmudgeon
36. Only; single
rail at
sturdy
proponent
sole
37. Sth valuable that has passed down within a family
heirloom
incentive
multifarious
rubric
38. A gradual decline of sth
pretentious
deprecate
erosion
extolling
39. Common - widespread
prevalent
ammunition
rash
nourish
40. Full of energy - excitement and happiness
denounce
exuberant
havoc
rout
41. A man in the Middle Ages who promised to fight for and be loyal to a king or other powerful owner of land
benign
vassal
compile
condone
42. (formal - disapproving) speech or writing that is intended to influence people - but that is not completely honest or sincere
arbitrary
lofty
rhetoric
relish
43. Believing that everything happened for selfish reasons; being selfish when doing things
grant
patron
farce
cynically
44. To make unpleasant sound
jangle
rarefy
cyanide
viscous
45. To hide sth
conceal
nourish
precipitate
expatriate
46. Incompetent; not having the skill
inept
fidelity
arid
pretentious
47. (formal) to prove that sth is wrong; to say that sth is not true or fair
innuendo
nourish
refute
havoc
48. Title or set of instructions of book or exam
rejoinder
vetiver
rubric
resemble
49. Not interesting or exciting
metes out
mundane
incensed
haste
50. Imply; to tell or say sth indirectly that it is true
compile
insinuate
imprudence
flimsy