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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 13) 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
- Most weed seeds buried by autumn plowing do not ______ at once; they remain inert in the cold soil and break into growth only after a long winter has passed.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Because the storm track could still shift, the forecasters stressed that their three-day outlook was strictly ______: useful for planning but certain to be revised as new readings arrived.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The auction catalog noted that the rare dollar had never entered general use; decades in a sealed vault had left its surface ______, without a single nick or trace of wear.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Critics praised the new rendering of the epic as remarkably ______: although it modernized the syntax, it preserved the poet's images rather than reshaping them to suit modern taste.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's story A Scandal in Bohemia.
He waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and then stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion.
As used in the text, what does the word "singular" most nearly mean?