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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 5) 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 expected the author's memoir to settle old scores, so its ______ portrait of even her sharpest rivals came as a surprise.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth.
About this time she was farther cheered by an invitation to spend the Thanksgiving week at a camp in the Adirondacks. The invitation was one which, a year earlier, would have provoked a less ready response.
As used in the text, what does the word "provoked" most nearly mean?
- Far from being the breakthrough its backers claimed, the device offered only ______ improvements over existing models: marginally faster, slightly lighter, otherwise unchanged.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The treaty's language was so ______ that both governments could sign it while announcing, to their own citizens, directly opposing accounts of what it required.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The young pianist's technique was flawless but ______: every note was correct, yet the performance left audiences cold, as if the music had been calculated rather than felt.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?