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SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 27)

Drill 27 · Reading & Writing · Hard Words in Context

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About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 27) 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 following text is adapted from Charles Dickens's 1853 novel Bleak House.

    "Pray say no more about it," returned my guardian. "I am very sensible, as I am sure we all are, of your consideration. Indeed the mistake was mine, and I ought to apologize for it."

    As used in the text, what does the word "sensible" most nearly mean?
  2. National figures concealed a sharp regional imbalance: rather than being spread evenly across the country, population growth was ______, concentrated in three coastal provinces while the interior barely changed.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  3. Field observers were surprised by how ______ the older males were: where the younger animals approached and investigated the camera freely, the mature ones hung back at the tree line and revealed almost nothing of their behavior.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  4. To a collector, a coin's history is written on its surface: this denarius is plainly ______, its lettering rubbed nearly smooth and its portrait flattened by centuries of handling.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
  5. In the trial data, antibody levels did not rise gradually; the increase was ______, with levels staying low for two weeks and then climbing steeply once the immune response was triggered.

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