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SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 29)

Drill 29 · Reading & Writing · Hard Words in Context

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About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 29) 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. Sleep researchers found the drug's benefit ______: subjects fell asleep faster for the first week, but by the second the effect had faded entirely and their sleep latency matched the placebo group's.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  2. Critics had expected the foundation to scatter its money thinly, but its new director made the giving sharply ______, funding three causes deeply rather than a hundred at a token level.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  3. The following text is adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1891 short story "A Scandal in Bohemia."

    His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.

    As used in the text, what does the word "effusive" most nearly mean?
  4. The restorer's approach was deliberately ______: rather than repaint the faded fresco, she stabilized the surviving pigment and left the losses visible, so that no later viewer could mistake her work for the original.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  5. In game theory a strategy is ______ only if it performs at least as well as every other option available to the player, no matter what move the opponent makes; if some other strategy would do better against even one of the opponent's choices, it fails to qualify.

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