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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 28) 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
- Cryptographers once treated the cipher as ______, certain that no analyst could read its messages without the key; within a decade, however, statistical attacks on its letter patterns were laying its contents bare.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The new field guide is admirably ______ where older manuals were vague: instead of 'a medium brown mushroom,' it gives cap diameter and gill spacing to the millimeter and names each spore color by exact shade.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The early excavation reports were necessarily ______: the team had cleared only one corner of the villa, so every claim about its full ground plan rested on a single mosaic and awaited the seasons of digging still to come.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Before the eruption the volcano had seemed entirely ______, its slopes farmed for generations with no memory of activity, so the sudden venting of ash caught the whole valley unprepared.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The dictionary's editors refused to be ______ about usage, declining to brand any common construction as an error and instead recording how speakers actually write and speak.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?