High-utility SAT words (set B)
11th grade (Year 12 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: L.11-12.4.A, L.11-12.6 · England: SAT Reading and Writing (Words in Context), ACT Reading, A-level English
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Question 1
Which word matches this description? to make two ideas or people agree or coexist
- A. empirical
- B. reconcile
- C. salient
- D. futile
Question 2
Type the word (in English) that matches this description. an earlier event used as an example or guide
Answer
Question 3
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word? The farmers switched to growing herbs, which proved far more ___ than wheat.
- A. inherent
- B. lucrative
- C. equivocal
- D. futile
Question 4
Which word matches this description? not favouring one side
- A. impartial
- B. equivocal
- C. proliferate
- D. resilient
Question 5
Type the word (in English) that matches this description. liable to change rapidly and unpredictably
Answer
Question 6
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word? The biography tries to ___ the poet's public cheerfulness with the despair in her letters.
- A. reconcile
- B. vindicate
- C. extrapolate
- D. proliferate
Question 7
Which word matches this description? to estimate beyond known data by extending a trend
- A. extrapolate
- B. vindicate
- C. proliferate
- D. resilient
Question 8
Type the word (in English) that matches this description. an opinion formed without complete evidence
Answer
Question 9
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word? From five years of rainfall data, the scientists ___ how much rain the region may receive by 2050.
- A. extrapolated
- B. vindicated
- C. reconciled
- D. proliferated
Question 10
Which word matches this description? liable to change rapidly and unpredictably
- A. reconcile
- B. resilient
- C. volatile
- D. lucrative
Question 11
Type the word (in English) that matches this description. existing as a natural, permanent part of something
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Question 12
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word? Judges must remain ___, giving equal weight to both sides.
- A. volatile
- B. equivocal
- C. impartial
- D. lucrative
Question 13
Which word matches this description? an opinion formed without complete evidence
- A. anomaly
- B. equivocal
- C. nuanced
- D. conjecture
Question 14
Type the word (in English) that matches this description. open to more than one interpretation; unclear
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Question 15
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word? The court's earlier ruling set a ___ that later judges followed.
- A. conjecture
- B. precedent
- C. anomaly
- D. deference
Question 16
Which word matches this description? an opinion formed without complete evidence
- A. conjecture
- B. nuanced
- C. deference
- D. anomaly
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