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SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 25)

Drill 25 · Reading & Writing · Hard Words in Context

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About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 25) 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

  1. Early speech therapists assumed a stammer was a single fixed defect, but modern phonetic analysis shows the disruption is highly ______: the same speaker may produce fluent stretches and then lapse into broken, interrupted syllables within a single sentence.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  2. Negotiators stressed that the framework agreement was strictly ______ rather than final: it set out shared aims the parties could revisit and amend once technical committees had reported.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  3. Eyewitness researchers caution that human recall is not a faithful recording but a ______ one: a witness retains a few striking details with confidence while quietly discarding much of what was actually in view.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  4. The following text is adapted from Jane Austen's 1818 novel Persuasion.

    Glowing and lovely in sensibility and happiness, and more generally admired than she thought about or cared for, she had cheerful or forbearing feelings for every creature around her.

    As used in the text, what does the word "forbearing" most nearly mean?
  5. Limestone aquifers store enormous volumes of water precisely because the rock is so ______: countless tiny interconnected voids let water seep through and collect, where denser stone would simply shed it.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?