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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Words in Context (Drill 7) 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 excavation report was careful to call the dating ______: the single charcoal sample could anchor only a rough window, and the team stressed that firmer dates awaited further sampling.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Early marine chronometers were prized not merely because they could be set correctly at departure but because of their ______ over long voyages: a clock that drifted even seconds a day could throw a ship's reckoning off by miles.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- Deep-sea sediment cores are valued because the layers accumulate so ______ that even a thin band can represent thousands of undisturbed years.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The medieval mapmaker's coastlines were strikingly ______: ports he had never seen were sketched from sailors' secondhand reports rather than direct survey.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?
- The following text is adapted from George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.
He put his hand on the latch to close the door, but he did not close it: he was arrested, as he had been already since his loss, by the invisible wand of catalepsy, and stood like a graven image, powerless to move.
As used in the text, what does the word "arrested" most nearly mean?