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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 8) is a Reading & Writing practice drill covering Hard Words in Context. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Hard SAT Words in Context questions ask you to choose the word or phrase that most precisely completes the sentence. The answer is rarely an obscure word; difficulty comes from three plausible distractors that all nearly fit, with one signal in the sentence pinning the correct choice.
Questions in This Drill
- Geologists describe the volcanic system as ______ rather than extinct: its quiet stretches can last centuries before activity resumes without warning.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The tracking data overturned a tidy assumption: far from following one ______ route south, individual warblers wandered along paths that varied sharply from bird to bird and year to year.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The guild's reputation rested on ______ work: a single flawed seam could see an entire bolt of cloth rejected at inspection.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The alloy's appeal is that it is ______: it can be drawn into fine wire without cracking, where a more brittle metal would simply snap.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre.
I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder; he had closed with a desperate thing. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering.
As used in the text, what does the word "sensible" most nearly mean?