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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 16) 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
- Critics had long dismissed the alloy as too brittle for fine work, yet the master jeweler found it surprisingly ______, hammering it into sheets so thin they flexed without cracking.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The restorer worried that harsh cleaning would leave the canvas looking ______, its once-warm reds and golds flattened into a chalky dullness no varnish could revive.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Engineers praised the new hall as acoustically ______: even a low note from the stage seemed to bloom and carry to the rear seats without sounding thin.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Demographers noted that the county's population, ______ for three straight decades as new subdivisions spread inland, had finally begun to shrink as younger residents left for the coasts.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Tree-ring analysts cautioned that the drought signal was ______: dry years appeared at irregular intervals along the core, never settling into a fixed cycle.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?