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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 19) 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
- The new pieces of equipment were not just incremental improvements over the old machines; they were ______: the assembly line could now produce in a single shift what had previously taken a full week.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Linguists studying the remote valley dialect found its vowel system surprisingly ______: speakers from communities barely twenty miles apart produced the same handful of sounds in almost identical ways.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from Herman Melville's 1853 story Bartleby, the Scrivener.
But not without sundry twinges of impotent rebellion against the mild effrontery of this unaccountable scrivener.
As used in the text, what does the word "effrontery" most nearly mean?
- Curators noted that the photographer's late prints were anything but ______: each frame was composed with such care that nothing entered it by chance.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Although the foundation's early grants were scattered across dozens of unrelated causes, its recent giving has grown far more ______: nearly all of it now flows to a single field where the board believes it can have measurable impact.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?