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SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 10)

Drill 10 · Reading & Writing · Hard Words in Context

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About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 10) 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 grammarians often judged English word order by Latin standards, but modern linguists point out that English syntax is ______ Latin syntax: the two languages organize clauses by entirely different principles.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  2. The cathedral's flying buttresses are often praised as ornament, but they are in fact ______: without them the high stone walls could not bear the outward thrust of the vaulted roof.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  3. The following text is adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables.

    The hardest stroke of fate for Hepzibah to endure was Clifford's invincible distaste for her appearance. Her features were harsh with age and grief, and there was no help for it; the instinctive lover of the Beautiful was fain to turn away his eyes.

    As used in the text, what does the word "invincible" most nearly mean?
  4. Tide pools were long dismissed as biologically ______, yet a single square meter can shelter dozens of species competing for the same narrow band of rock.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  5. The mycologist cautioned that a mushroom's surface color is a ______ guide to its identity, since the same species can shade from white to brown as it ages and dries.

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