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SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 15)

Drill 15 · Reading & Writing · Hard Words in Context

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About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 15) 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 fossil record for the group is frustratingly ______: long stretches of geologic time have yielded no specimens at all, so researchers must infer the missing forms from those that bracket the gaps.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  2. The printer chose a face whose letters stayed ______ even at small sizes, so that a reader could move down a dense column without straining to tell one character from the next.

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

    Even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him.

    As used in the text, what does the word "spare" most nearly mean?
  4. In the repeated game, cooperation held only when each move was ______: a player who helped a partner could count on being helped in turn, while one who cheated was met with the same.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  5. On the floor of the mature forest, seedlings of sun-loving trees rarely survive: the ground there is too deeply ______ by the closed canopy overhead for them to gather the light they need.

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