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About This Drill
SAT Reading & Writing: Words in Context (Drill 3) is a Reading & Writing practice drill covering 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.
SAT Words in Context questions test precise vocabulary and contextual reasoning by asking you to select the word that best completes a sentence. This drill draws on passages from social science, literature, and science, requiring attention to both meaning and register.
Questions in This Drill
- Historian Kendi argues that discriminatory policies' effects are not merely historical but ________: they continue to shape economic outcomes, educational access, and health disparities today.
Which is the most logical and precise word?
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is ________ with its natural surroundings: the terraces echo the layered rock ledges, and a stream runs beneath the structure.
Which is the most logical and precise phrase?
- From Cather's My Ántonia: The narrator sits in warm sunshine, feels warm earth, lies 'listening, drowsing.'
What does 'drowsing' most nearly mean?
- Unlike sites yielding only fragmentary evidence, Pompeii provides an exceptionally ________ record of daily life, because Vesuvius buried the city so quickly that homes, shops, and even meals were preserved intact.
Which is the most logical and precise word?
- Neuroscientist Eagleman proposes our experience of time is remarkably ________: the same hour can feel like minutes during engagement or stretch into days during boredom.
Which is the most logical and precise word?