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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 23) 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 musical passage avoids every clash a listener might brace for: each chord resolves into the next so smoothly that the whole sounds almost relentlessly ______.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Gift-giving in the society was strictly ______: every present obliged the receiver to return one of equal value, so that no exchange ever stayed one-sided for long.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from Anton Chekhov's 1899 story The Lady with the Dog, in Constance Garnett's translation.
Experience had taught him that with decent people, especially Moscow people, who were always slow to move and irresolute, every intimacy that at first seemed a light adventure grew in the end into a problem of extreme intricacy.
As used in the text, what does the word "irresolute" most nearly mean?
- The glacier's retreat is ______ on any single day, yet decades of survey markers reveal that the ice has withdrawn nearly a mile since the first measurements.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The collector's holdings defy any single label, mixing Dutch still lifes, Yoruba masks, and Pop prints with such ______ taste that no one school can claim her.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?