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SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 30)

Drill 30 · Reading & Writing · Hard Words in Context

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About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 30) 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. The translator faced a famously ______ passage, one whose puns work only in the original and collapse the moment they are carried word for word into another language.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  2. The following text is adapted from Thomas Hardy's 1872 novel Under the Greenwood Tree.

    To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings.

    As used in the text, what does the word "distinctly" most nearly mean?
  3. Modern foresters no longer treat every blaze as a disaster to be ______ at once; controlled low-intensity fire, they have learned, clears underbrush and lets fire-adapted seeds germinate.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  4. Skeptics had called the chronometer's accuracy ______, a fluke of one calm crossing; but it held its rate through three more voyages in heavy weather, ruling out luck.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  5. The philosopher's prose is bracingly ______: she states each claim in one short sentence, defines her terms once, and never pads an argument to seem more profound.

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