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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 22) 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
- Before committing to a final form in marble, the sculptor produces a ______ version in clay, a quick study meant to be reworked rather than kept.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Engineers can audit a system that logs its reasoning, but a model whose internal decisions remain ______ resists the very scrutiny that accountability requires.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from Mark Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face but alacrity in his heart: another boy was taking over the whitewashing he had been longing to escape.
As used in the text, what does the word "alacrity" most nearly mean?
- Though the chronicle presents itself as a neutral record, modern historians read it as ______, shaped throughout to flatter the dynasty that commissioned it.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Unlike solitary wasps that nest and forage alone, honeybees are highly ______, living in colonies of thousands whose members depend on constant cooperation.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?