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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 3) 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 diplomat was praised for her ______ replies: she answered every question fully and on the record, refusing the evasions her predecessors had relied on.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Economists expected the subsidy to raise rural wages, but its effect proved ______: across every district that received it, large or small, pay barely moved at all.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.
I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo.
As used in the text, what does the word "fortify" most nearly mean?
- Critics had called the director's earlier films cold, so the warmth of her latest work struck many as a ______ from her established style.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from George Eliot's 1871 novel Middlemarch.
She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense.
As used in the text, what does the word "addition" most nearly mean?