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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 14) 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
- Volunteers who checked their phones through the night reported sleep that felt ______ rather than restful, broken into short stretches that never let them settle into the deeper stages.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Engineers warned that the cracked truss was not merely ornamental but ______: removing it would shift the deck's full weight onto members never designed to carry it.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The chord at the phrase's end sounded deliberately ______, leaving the ear expecting a further chord that would finally bring the passage to rest.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from Elizabeth Gaskell's 1853 novel Cranford.
You know our friend Mrs. Jamieson is much more phlegmatic than most people, and does not enter into the little delicacies of feeling which you possess in so remarkable a degree.
As used in the text, what does the word "phlegmatic" most nearly mean?
- After the initial infection clears, the virus does not vanish but becomes ______, hiding in nerve cells for years before any new symptoms appear.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?