Word in Context E

Question ID 84b5125b
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty
SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context
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Artist Marilyn Dingle’s intricate, coiled baskets are ______ sweetgrass and palmetto palm. Following a Gullah technique
that originated in West Africa, Dingle skillfully winds a thin palm frond around a bunch of sweetgrass with the help of a
“sewing bone” to create the basket’s signature look that no factory can reproduce.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. indicated by
B. handmade from
C. represented by
D. collected with
Question ID 45a109a3
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The following text is from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. The narrator is being driven in a carriage through a remote
region at night.
The baying of the wolves sounded nearer and nearer, as though they were closing round on us from every side. I
grew dreadfully afraid, and the horses shared my fear. The driver, however, was not in the least disturbed; he kept
turning his head to left and right, but I could not see anything through the darkness.
As used in the text, what does the word “disturbed” most nearly mean?
A. Disorganized
B. Alarmed
C. Offended
D. Interrupted
Question ID d4a8f7cb
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Dance choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar aims to give people the opportunity to be ______ her creative process. For
example, live performances of her dance HairStories, which debuted in 2001, featured videos of people across the United
States talking about their hair and audience members sharing pictures of their interesting hairstyles.
A. nervous about
B. completed by
C. delayed by
D. involved in
Question ID 97ab5669
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Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she doesn’t have a definite idea of when it might happen, she ______
that humans will someday need to be able to live in other environments than those found on Earth. This conjecture
informs her interest in future research missions to the moon.
A. demands
B. speculates
C. doubts
D. establishes
Question ID 06b96bfc
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A musician and member of the Quechua of Peru, Renata Flores Rivera was eager to promote the Quechua language in
her music, but she was ______ speaking it. She met this challenge by asking her grandmother, a native speaker of
Quechua, to help her pronounce words in her song lyrics and also by taking classes in the language.
A. prepared for
B. inexperienced with
C. skilled in
D. excited about
Question ID 0f040c50
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The following text is from Yann Martel’s 2001 novel Life of Pi. The narrator’s family owned a zoo when he was a child.
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to
get smaller as I grew older, train included.
©2001 by Yann Martel
As used in the text, what does the word “spread” most nearly mean?
A. Hidden
B. Discussed
C. Extended
D. Coated
Question ID e1d5d5df
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According to botanists, a viburnum plant experiencing insect damage may develop erineum—a discolored, felty growth
—on its leaf blades. A ______ viburnum plant, on the other hand, will have leaves with smooth surfaces and uniformly
green coloration.
A. struggling
B. beneficial
C. simple
D. healthy
Question ID 9e501aaf
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Research conducted by planetary scientist Katarina Miljkovic suggests that the Moon’s surface may not accurately ______
early impact events. When the Moon was still forming, its surface was softer, and asteroid or meteoroid impacts would
have left less of an impression; thus, evidence of early impacts may no longer be present.
A. reflect
B. receive
C. evaluate
D. mimic
Question ID e3f05561
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In the 1970s, video cameras became increasingly affordable for ordinary consumers and gave Ulysses Jenkins and other
artists capabilities that were previously unavailable except to television broadcasters. Jenkins recognized and took full
advantage of this ______ access to powerful technology to create groundbreaking works of video art, such as Mass of
Images (1978).
A. newfound
B. delicate
C. inevitable
D. habitual
Question ID 9cdcd902
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Charles “Teenie” Harris was a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier from 1936 to 1975. During his career he took over
70,000 photographs documenting everyday life in Pittsburgh’s Black communities. The Carnegie Museum of Art
maintains thousands of his photographs, carefully ______ them so that audiences can continue to view them well into the
future.
A. replacing
B. inventing
C. preserving
D. counting
Question ID 4a2b2535
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A brief book review cannot fully convey the ______ of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel The Books of Jacob, with its enormous cast of
characters, its complicated, wandering plot, and its page numbers that count backward (beginning at 965 and ending at
1).
A. accuracy
B. inactivity
C. complexity
D. restraint
Question ID 9ccf463e
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The following text is from Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand.
The trees in their spring beauty sent through her restive mind a sharp thrill of pleasure. Seductive, charming, and
beckoning as cities were, they had not this easy unhuman loveliness.
As used in the text, what does the word “beckoning” most nearly mean?
A. Demanding
B. Signaling
C. Inviting
D. Shifting
Question ID ca47273b
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Biologist Jane Edgeloe and colleagues have located what is believed to be the largest individual plant in the world in the
Shark Bay area of Australia. The plant is a type of seagrass called Posidonia australis, and it ______ approximately 200
square kilometers.
A. acknowledges
B. produces
C. spans
D. advances
Question ID 69a6d050
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In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language
in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and
thus quickly achieved ______ use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it.
A. widespread
B. careful
C. unintended
D. infrequent
Question ID e41dfaab
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In 1929 the Atlantic Monthly published several articles based on newly discovered letters allegedly exchanged between
President Abraham Lincoln and a woman named Ann Rutledge. Historians were unable to ______ the authenticity of the
letters, however, and quickly dismissed them as a hoax.
A. validate
B. interpret
C. relate
D. accommodate
Question ID 4d1a9c0d
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Following the principles of community-based participatory research, tribal nations and research institutions are equal
partners in health studies conducted on reservations. A collaboration between the Crow Tribe and Montana State
University ______ this model: tribal citizens worked alongside scientists to design the methodology and continue to assist
in data collection.
A. circumvents
B. eclipses
C. fabricates
D. exemplifies
Question ID d2eb1df1
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In recommending Bao Phi’s collection Sông I Sing, a librarian noted that pieces by the spoken-word poet don’t lose their
______ nature when printed: the language has the same pleasant musical quality on the page as it does when performed
by Phi.
A. scholarly
B. melodic
C. jarring
D. personal
Question ID 7d84fe2b
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Particle physicists like Ayana Holloway Arce and Aida El-Khadra spend much of their time ______ what is invisible to the
naked eye: using sophisticated technology, they closely examine the behavior of subatomic particles, the smallest
detectable parts of matter.
A. selecting
B. inspecting
C. creating
D. deciding
Question ID a4ca92fd
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Beginning in the 1950s, Navajo Nation legislator Annie Dodge Wauneka continuously worked to promote public health;
this ______ effort involved traveling throughout the vast Navajo homeland and writing a medical dictionary for speakers of
Diné bizaad, the Navajo language.
A. impartial
B. offhand
C. persistent
D. mandatory
Question ID a2835734
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Visual artist Gabriela Alemán states that the bold colors of comics, pop art, and Latinx culture have always fascinated her.
This passion for the rich history and colors of her Latinx community translates into the ______ artworks she produces.
A. vivid
B. unknown
C. definite
D. reserved
Question ID 6d5ddea4
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According to Potawatomi ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, the Indigenous method of harvesting Hierochloe odorata, or
sweetgrass, by snapping the plant off at the root actually ______ wild populations: it may seem counterintuitive, she says,
but this method of removal allows new sweetgrass plants to repopulate the space, with an overall increase in number and
vigor.
A. selects
B. originates
C. conditions
D. replenishes
Question ID f3fac04f
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Bioluminescent beetles called fireflies may seem to create flashes of light randomly, but each species of firefly actually
has its own special series of repeated flashes and pauses. These unique ______ allow fireflies of the same species to find
each other.
A. quantities
B. decorations
C. patterns
D. agreements
Question ID 5effa190
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The process of mechanically recycling plastics is often considered ______ because of the environmental impact and the
loss of material quality that often occurs. But chemist Takunda Chazovachii has helped develop a cleaner process of
chemical recycling that converts superabsorbent polymers from diapers into a desirable reusable adhesive.
A. resilient
B. inadequate
C. dynamic
D. satisfactory
Question ID cb526866
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The recent discovery of a carved wooden figure dating to around 2,000 years ago in a ditch in England was truly
surprising. Wooden objects ______ survive for so long due to their high susceptibility to rot, but archaeologists suspect
layers of sediment in the ditch preserved the figure by creating an oxygen-free environment.
A. sturdily
B. carelessly
C. rarely
D. simply
Question ID 83687083
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Due to their often strange images, highly experimental syntax, and opaque subject matter, many of John Ashbery’s
poems can be quite difficult to ______ and thus are the object of heated debate among scholars.
A. delegate
B. compose
C. interpret
D. renounce
Question ID 637d0878
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The Appalachian Trail is a hiking path in the eastern United States. Much of the 2,000 mile trail passes through wilderness
areas. In order to ______ those areas, the United States Congress passed the National Trails System Act in 1968, ensuring
that the trail would not be sold or commercially developed.
A. borrow
B. postpone
C. protect
D. decorate
Question ID 4480fae9
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The following text is adapted from Sui Sin Far’s 1912 short story “Mrs. Spring Fragrance.” Mr. and Mrs. Spring Fragrance
immigrated to the United States from China.
Mrs. Spring Fragrance was unaware that Mr. Spring Fragrance, tired with the day’s business, had thrown himself
down on the bamboo settee on the veranda, and that although his eyes were engaged in scanning the pages of
the Chinese World, his ears could not help receiving the words which were borne to him through the open window.
As used in the text, what does the word “receiving” most nearly mean?
A. Denying
B. Entering
C. Carrying
D. Hearing
Question ID daaed806
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Mônica Lopes-Ferreira and others at Brazil’s Butantan Institute are studying the freshwater stingray species Potamotrygon
rex to determine whether biological characteristics such as the rays’ age and sex have ______ effect on the toxicity of their
venom—that is, to see if differences in these traits are associated with considerable variations in venom potency.
A. a disconcerting
B. an acceptable
C. an imperceptible
D. a substantial
Question ID afd48140
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In 1877, 85% of California’s railways were already controlled by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The company further
solidified its ______ in rail access to the state’s Pacific coast when it completed the Sunset Route in 1883: running from
Louisiana to Southern California, the route established the first transcontinental rail line across the southern United
States.
A. dominance
B. creativity
C. insignificance
D. neutrality
Question ID 5d2fd27d
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While we can infer information about climate activity in Earth’s distant past from physical evidence, we of course cannot
observe past climates directly. To study early Earth’s climate in action, we must ______ that climate using computer models
that represent various climate conditions consistent with the physical evidence.
A. invent
B. simulate
C. exaggerate
D. preserve
Question ID bdab32fc
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Cucurbits, a group of plants that includes squash and melons, relied on mastodons to spread their seeds in the Ice Age.
When these animals died out, cucurbits faced extinction in turn, having lost their means of seed dispersal. Around this
time, however, the ancestors of Indigenous peoples in North America began raising cucurbits as crops, thus ______ the
plants’ survival.
A. verifying
B. multiplying
C. comforting
D. ensuring
Question ID b92c13fa
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According to statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the best way to predict the amount of time a nonperishable entity (such
as a building or a technology) will continue to exist is to examine how long it has survived so far. In this view, an item’s
age is the strongest ______ how much longer it will last.
A. uncertainty about
B. indicator of
C. motivation for
D. criticism of
Question ID 849bf8d7
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In the mid-nineteenth century, some abolitionist newspapers ______ westward migration in the United States; by printing a
letter that described the easy fortunes and high salaries miners could make in California during the Gold Rush, Frederick
Douglass’s newspaper North Star was one such publication that inspired readers to relocate.
A. stimulated
B. assigned
C. opposed
D. disregarded
Question ID 44cc5f75
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Artificially delivering biomolecules to plant cells is an important component of protecting plants from pathogens, but it is
difficult to transmit biomolecules through the layers of the plant cell wall. Markita del Carpio Landry and her colleagues
have shown that it may be possible to ______ this problem by transmitting molecules through carbon nanotubes, which
can cross cell walls.
A. conceptualize
B. neglect
C. illustrate
D. overcome
Question ID f7d58b53
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Like other tribal nations, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation is self-governing; its National Council generates laws regulating
aspects of community life such as land use and healthcare, while the principal chief and cabinet officials ______ those laws
by devising policies and administering services in accordance with them.
A. implement
B. presume
C. improvise
D. mimic
Question ID f8ca5766
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Nigerian American author Teju Cole’s ______ his two passions—photography and the written word—culminates in his 2017
book, Blind Spot, which evocatively combines his original photographs from his travels with his poetic prose.
A. indifference to
B. enthusiasm for
C. concern about
D. surprise at
Question ID 9671d61d
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The following text is from Claude McKay’s 1922 poem “Morning Joy.” The speaker is looking out a window and observing
a wold, or large area of land.
At night the wide and level stretch of wold,

Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold,
Far as the eye could see was ghostly white;
Dark was the night save for the snow’s weird light.
I drew the shades far down, crept into bed;

Hearing the cold wind moaning overhead
Through the sad pines, my soul, catching its pain,
Went sorrowing with it across the plain.
As used in the text, what does the word “drew” most nearly mean?
A. Pulled
B. Drained
C. Inspired
D. Sketched
Question ID 1ad04ea0
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In habitats with limited nutrients, certain fungus species grow on the roots of trees, engaging in mutually beneficial
relationships known as ectomycorrhizae: in this symbiotic exchange, the tree provides the fungus with carbon, a nutrient
necessary for both species, and the fungus ______ by enhancing the tree’s ability to absorb nitrogen, another key nutrient,
from the soil.
A. overreacts
B. reciprocates
C. retaliates
D. deviates
Question ID 479c7e82
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Although critics believed that customers would never agree to pay to pick their own produce on farms, such concerns
didn’t ______ Booker T. Whatley’s efforts to promote the practice. Thanks in part to Whatley’s determined advocacy, farms
that allow visitors to pick their own apples, pumpkins, and other produce can be found throughout the United States.
A. enhance
B. hinder
C. misrepresent
D. aggravate
Question ID 0ee67e09
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Anthropologist Kristian J. Carlson and colleagues examined the fossilized clavicle and shoulder bones of a 3.6-million-
year-old early hominin known as “Little Foot.” They found that these bones were ______ the clavicle and shoulder bones of
modern apes that are frequent climbers, such as gorillas and chimpanzees, suggesting that Little Foot had adapted to life
in the trees.
A. surpassed by
B. comparable to
C. independent of
D. obtained from
Question ID 760ee1db
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Although the playwrights hoped that their play would be ______ when performed live, critics generally agreed that the
production and performances had the opposite effect, wearying audiences instead of energizing them.
A. multifaceted
B. realistic
C. rousing
D. subtle
Question ID 9d73c9eb
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Osage Nation citizen Randy Tinker-Smith produced and directed the ballet Wahzhazhe, which vividly chronicles Osage
history and culture. Telling Osage stories through ballet is ______ choice because two of the foremost ballet dancers of the
twentieth century were Osage: sisters Maria and Marjorie Tallchief.
A. a suitable
B. a determined
C. an arbitrary
D. an unpredictable
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The printing of Virginia Woolf’s novels featured a creative ______ between Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell: a talented
painter, Bell worked closely with Woolf to create original cover art for most of the novels.
A. rebellion
B. partnership
C. discovery
D. disagreement
Question ID bcc91b1e
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The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx briefly made contact with the asteroid 101955 Bennu in 2020. NASA scientist Daniella
DellaGiustina reports that despite facing the unexpected obstacle of a surface mostly covered in boulders, OSIRIS-REx
successfully ______ a sample of the surface, gathering pieces of it to bring back to Earth.
A. attached
B. collected
C. followed
D. replaced
Question ID 31d0bd9a
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The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as the host plant it has
latched onto. In 2020, Jianqiang Wu and his colleagues determined that the tiny dodder achieves this ______ with its host
by absorbing and utilizing a protein the host produces when it is about to flower.
A. synchronization
B. hibernation
C. prediction
D. moderation
Question ID 47955354
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Sumerian civilization (which lasted from around 3300 to 2000 BCE) ______ many concepts that persist into present-day
civilizations: for example, the first description of the seven-day week appears in the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.
A. transformed
B. introduced
C. inherited
D. overlooked
Question ID a3761c7e
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Physicist Joseph Weber performed ______ work in gravitational wave research in the 1960s and 1970s, conducting key
experiments that scientists later used as the basis for their own investigations that led to the first verified detection of a
gravitational wave in 2015.
A. foundational
B. supplementary
C. repetitive
D. ineffective
Question ID 80ebb189
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As an architect in Los Angeles in the 1950s, Helen Liu Fong became known for avoiding ______ designs in her buildings.
Instead of using standard shapes and colors, she typically explored innovative forms and daring hues.
A. creative
B. bold
C. traditional
D. understandable
Question ID b0ea8c28
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Sueño de Familia is an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and ceramics that explores the artistic heritage of US-based artist
Yolanda González. The exhibition ______ five generations, featuring works by González’s great-grandfather, grandmother,
mother, and niece as well as González herself.
A. borrows
B. spans
C. judges
D. neglects
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US traffic signals didn’t always contain the familiar three lights (red, yellow, and green). Traffic lights only ______ red and
green lights until the three-light traffic signal was developed in the 1920s.
A. avoided
B. featured
C. appreciated
D. disregarded
Question ID a4f50d30
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Scientists previously thought that all electric eels belong to a single species, but a team of researchers led by zoologist C.
David de Santana proved this idea wrong by ______ that there are in fact three distinct species of electric eels.
A. pretending
B. complaining
C. requiring
D. demonstrating
Question ID fa7a89f1
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Studying how workload affects productivity, Maryam Kouchaki and colleagues found that people who chose to do
relatively easy tasks first were less ______ compared to those who did hard tasks first. Finishing easy tasks gave
participants a sense of accomplishment, but those who tackled hard tasks first actually became more skilled and
productive workers over time.
A. secretive
B. efficient
C. outgoing
D. unsympathetic
Question ID faa5696c
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Arturo A. Schomburg was dedicated to preserving books, art, and other materials from peoples of African descent around
the world. To get these items, Schomburg ______ friends and colleagues, whom he asked to bring back rare and valuable
objects from their international travels. Now, Schomburg’s collection is a valuable resource for scholars of Black history
and culture.
A. admired
B. disagreed with
C. warned
D. depended on
Question ID 49bbe4d7
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For painter Jacob Lawrence, being ______ was an important part of the artistic process. Because he paid close attention to
all the details of his Harlem neighborhood, Lawrence’s artwork captured nuances in the beauty and vitality of the Black
experience during the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration.
A. skeptical
B. observant
C. critical
D. confident
Question ID f6d1f735
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Researchers have struggled to pinpoint specific causes for hiccups, which happen when a person’s diaphragm contracts
______. However, neuroscientist Kimberley Whitehead has found that these uncontrollable contractions may play an
important role in helping infants regulate their breathing.
A. involuntarily
B. beneficially
C. strenuously
D. smoothly
Question ID aa7ae735
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The following text is adapted from Mohsin Hamid’s 2017 novel Exit West. Saeed lives with his mother and father.
On cloudless nights after a daytime rain, Saeed’s father would sometimes bring out the telescope, and the family would
sip green tea on their balcony, enjoying a breeze, and take turns to look up at objects whose light, often, had been
emitted before any of these three viewers had been born—light from other centuries, only now reaching Earth.
©2017 by Mohsin Hamid
As used in the text, what does the word “reaching” most nearly mean?
A. Arriving at
B. Consulting with
C. Running to
D. Clinging to
Question ID 84a7fbca
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When Mexican-American archaeologist Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall published her 1886 research paper on sculptures
found at the ancient Indigenous city of Teotihuacan in present-day Mexico, other researchers readily ______ her work as
groundbreaking; this recognition stemmed from her convincing demonstration that the sculptures were much older than
had previously been thought.
A. acknowledged
B. ensured
C. denied
D. underestimated
Question ID 428cd2c1
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Some people have speculated that two helmets with attached horns discovered in Denmark in 1942 belonged to Vikings,
but scholars have long been skeptical. Archaeologist Helle Vandkilde and colleagues recently provided radiocarbon dates
for the helmets, and their findings ______ scholars’ skepticism: the helmets date to the Nordic Bronze Age, centuries
before the Vikings existed.
A. anticipate
B. inspect
C. reveal
D. justify
Question ID e7b709fc
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Archaeologists studying an ancient amphitheater in Switzerland believe that it dates back to the fourth century CE. Their
discoveries of a coin made between 337 and 341 CE and era-appropriate building materials ______ evidence for this
theory.
A. dismiss
B. provide
C. regulate
D. refuse
Question ID aad56f2b
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As a young photographer in the 1950s, William Klein ______ the conventions of photography by creating images that were
high contrast and included blurred and distorted elements—features generally seen as flaws. So unorthodox was Klein’s
work that he had difficulty finding a publisher for his now-iconic 1956 photo book Life is Good & Good for You in New
York.
A. reviewed
B. defied
C. respected
D. prevented
Question ID b11bb2a3
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The following text is adapted from Amy Lowell’s 1912 poem “Summer.”
It is summer, glorious, deep-toned summer,

The very crown of nature’s changing year
When all her surging life is at its full.
To me alone it is a time of pause,
A void and silent space between two worlds,
When inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps,
Gathering strength for efforts yet to come.
As used in the text, what does the phrase “a void” most nearly mean?
A. A useless
B. An empty
C. A forgotten
D. An incomplete
Question ID e1e89221
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The following text is from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel The Secret Garden. Mary, a young girl, is outside trying
her new jump rope.
The sun was shining and a little wind was blowing—not a rough wind, but one which came in delightful little gusts
and brought a fresh scent of newly turned earth with it. She skipped round the fountain garden, and up one walk
and down another.
As used in the text, what does the word “rough” most nearly mean?
A. Harsh
B. Scratchy
C. Basic
D. Vague
Question ID 82b7c3b2
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The following text is from Booth Tarkington’s 1921 novel Alice Adams.
Mrs. Adams had always been fond of vases, she said, and every year her husband’s Christmas present to her was a
vase of one sort or another—whatever the clerk showed him, marked at about twelve or fourteen dollars.
As used in the text, what does the word “marked” most nearly mean?
A. Staged
B. Priced
C. Stained
D. Watched
Question ID 9b2fbb2e
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Logically, a damaged fossil should provide less information than an intact one, but for paleontologist Brigitte
Schoenemann, a broken area on a fossilized trilobite (a crustacean-like creature) ______ fresh insight, allowing her to view
the inner structure of the organism’s eye.
A. resolved
B. adjusted
C. offered
D. directed
Question ID d5235d39
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The Mule Bone, a 1930 play written by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, is perhaps the best-known of the few
examples of ______ in literature. Most writers prefer working alone, and given that working together cost Hurston and
Hughes their friendship, it is not hard to see why.
A. characterization
B. interpretation
C. collaboration
D. commercialization
Question ID a318c1ef
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The Cambrian explosion gets its name from the sudden appearance and rapid diversification of animal remains in the
fossil record about 541 million years ago, during the Cambrian period. Some scientists argue that this ______ change in
the fossil record might be because of a shift in many organisms to body types that were more likely to be preserved.
A. catastrophic
B. elusive
C. abrupt
D. imminent
Question ID 21d95d1d
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Ofelia Zepeda’s contributions to the field of linguistics are ______: her many accomplishments include working as a
linguistics professor and bilingual poet, authoring the first Tohono O’odham grammar book, and co-founding the
American Indian Language Development Institute.
A. pragmatic
B. controversial
C. extensive
D. universal
Question ID 3118ca93
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The fashion resale market, in which consumers purchase secondhand clothing from stores and online sellers, generated
nearly $30 billion globally in 2019. Expecting to see continued growth, some analysts ______ that revenues will more than
double by 2028.
A. produced
B. denied
C. worried
D. predicted
Question ID f773a56b
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As Mexico’s first president from an Indigenous community, Benito Juarez became one of the most ______ figures in his
country’s history: among the many significant accomplishments of his long tenure in office (1858–1872), Juarez
consolidated the authority of the national government and advanced the rights of Indigenous peoples.
A. unpredictable
B. important
C. secretive
D. ordinary
Question ID c2c26e20
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The following text is adapted from Sadakichi Hartmann’s 1894 short story “Magnolia Blossoms.” The narrator is standing
on the deck of a boat.
What a night it was! My soul had left its body to lose itself in the wild unrestrained beauty around me—from where
it came—and only left a trembling suggestion of its existence within me. The other passengers moved around me
like shadows, and again and again my eyes drank in all the glory and wealth of that night.
As used in the text, what does the word “suggestion” most nearly mean?
A. Trace
B. Opinion
C. Dispute
D. Command
Question ID 213248f7
ID: 213248f7
The following text is adapted from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
“The second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think that will be the best plan.” It sounded like an
excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that Alice had not the smallest
idea how to set about it.
As used in the text, what does the word “simply” most nearly mean?
A. Faintly
B. Hastily
C. Easily
D. Foolishly
Question ID 5fa165f7
ID: 5fa165f7
In the 1960s, Sam Gilliam, a Black painter from the southern United States, became the first artist to drape painted
canvases into flowing shapes. He later explored a different style, ______ quilt-like paintings inspired by the patchwork
quilting tradition of Black communities in the South.
A. predicting
B. refusing
C. hiding
D. creating
Question ID 441e2b9e
ID: 441e2b9e
Researchers and conservationists stress that biodiversity loss due to invasive species is ______. For example, people can
take simple steps such as washing their footwear after travel to avoid introducing potentially invasive organisms into new
environments.
A. preventable
B. undeniable
C. common
D. concerning

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SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

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SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

At night the wide and level stretch of wold,

I drew the shades far down, crept into bed;

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context

SAT Reading and Writing Craft and Structure Words in Context