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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 17) 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
- The watchmaker's apprentice marveled at the mechanism's ______ design: hundreds of components nested within a case no thicker than a coin, each gear cut to a tolerance finer than he had ever attempted.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Nutritionists warned that processing the grain too aggressively could ______ its fiber content, stripping away the very part of the kernel that aids digestion.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Reviewers found the young novelist's prose remarkably ______ for a debut: every sentence felt considered, the vocabulary wide, the cadence assured.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Soil scientists explained that the clay layer was almost completely ______: rainwater pooled on the surface for days, unable to pass through into the bed below.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Historians of secret writing note that the diplomat's letters looked entirely ordinary, their real messages ______ within passages about weather and travel that no censor thought to question.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?