SAT sample questions Flashcards
This deck perfects your ability to predict meaning from sentence context. Each sentence is a language puzzle designed to strenghten your context clue abilities. (12 cards)
While____________over which movie to watch, Anna and her friends saw a poster for a new action flick.
- A) deliberating
- B) competing
- C) recapitulating
- D) agonizing
- E) examining
A) deliberating
deliberate: to consider a decision
agonizing: too exaggerated
examining: pertains to facts
Although the workout routine that Kathy usually followed at her gym was neither_____________nor
_____________,she was still very fit by any standard.
- A)interesting..visceral
- B)abhorrent..diverse
- C)praiseworthy..punitive
- D)fulfilling..heinous
- E)exacting..meticulous
E)exacting..meticulous
This is the only answer choice where BOTH words fit the blanks in the sentence. The word ALTHOUGH at the beginning of the sentence alerts the reader that there will be a logical result in the sentence that is unexpected. Answer choice A would possibly fit but it is not the BEST choice because VISCERAL would not usually be used to describe a workout routine.
In the aftermath of recent tornadoes, many volunteers_________on the disaster zone to start rebuilding victims’ lives.
- A) journeyed
- B) irrupted
- C) infiltrated
- D) decamped
- E) converged
E) converged
The word converged means to meet at a location with a group of people, typically for a specific purpose. The idiom is correctly expressed as: “converged on”, and SAT tests students on their knowledge of verbs plus prepositions, known as idioms.Answer choice A) is tempting but doesn’t work with the preposition “on”.
In spite of multiple minor injuries, the quarterback__________his energy and returned ____________to the football game.
- A)rallied..churlishly
- B)destroyed..willingly
- C)summoned..resolutely
- D)excavated..tainted
- E)purged..equivocally
C) summoned..resolutely
The only verb and adverb combination that works in this sentence correctly is answer choice C. This question tests logic and vocabulary in context. In no other answer choice do both words fit the blanks.
Given the danger it presents, texting while driving should really be____________and teens who do text and drive should be______________.
- A)banned..admonished
- B)fined..reprimanded
- C)outlawed..imprisoned
- D)berated..confronted
- E)acceptable..reproached
Even though the concert was overcrowded, Joe was able to _____________himself in the private box he was given for viewing it from his wheelchair.
- A) propitiate
- B)satiate
- C)ensconce
- D)hide
- E)foster
There were multifarious coffee shops in the quaint town but the one that was most _________was frequented by the affluent and modish set.
A)fashionable
B)salubrious
C)enigmatic
D)populated
E) tasteless
Word means?
The coach assembled his baseball team to discuss their game.
A) criticized
B) gathered
B) gathered
Word means?
Rhonda’s friends knew she was cheating on her tests; they approached the situation by chatting over lunch.
A) walked up to
B) confronted
B) confronted
Word means?
As the film crew arrived, the director depicted the vision he was trying to create.
A) sketched
B) described
B) described
discern
