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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 6) 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
- Once dismissed as a fringe hypothesis, the theory has become so widely accepted that it now seems ______ to question it at all.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
As used in the text, what does the word "punctuality" most nearly mean?
- The biographer refused to ______ her subject: she recorded his cruelties as plainly as his charm, declining to soften a man history had already half-canonized.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The verdict did nothing to ______ the public's anger; if anything, the lenient sentence sharpened the outrage that the trial had been meant to settle.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- What looked at first like ______ generosity turned out to be carefully calculated: every gift the patron made was timed to secure a vote he needed.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?