SAT Word Choice

SAT Word Choice

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The security company's services are being exited in the short term so that its password algorithms can be reset or strengthened.

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• winding down in the interim

• ceasing operations nonpermanently

• shutting down temporarily

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Establishing himself as the premier authority on food, David Pine was a harsh critic of any chef who did not conform to his standards.

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• fall with

• attach to

• meet the bar of

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The police detective was frustrated by the witness's refusal to cooperate potentially valuable information.

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• chip in with

• play ball with

• contribute

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In his most controversial article, the audacious journalist trashed works widely regarded as classics, ridiculing such literary icons as William Faulkner, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy.

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• dismissed

• dissolved

• cast aspersions on

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Korean director Ang Lee is like the American director Katherine Bigelow in his use of vivid imagery, but unlike her, he explores the lighter surfaces of humanity.

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• strands

• facets

• contents

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The alarm fire burning across the night sky meant that an attack was _______.

• eminent

• imminent

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The sight of upside-down turtles struggling to turn over ______ a sadness inside me

• elicits

• illicits

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I sought the _______ for advice on health and safety laws.

• council

• counsel

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Many modern movies like Poseidon _______ to famous Greek myths.

• allude

• elude

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Be careful when driving under ________ weather conditions.

• adverse

• averse

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It's easy to fool your brain with a few cleverly drawn diagrams called optical ________.

• allusions

• illusions

• dissolutions

• contusion

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Please be _________ with what I tell you because you don't want these dark secrets to ever come out.

• discreet

• discrete

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Bangkok is the _______ of Thailand.

• capital

• capitol

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As long as you _______ your sources in the bibliography, you should be safe from plagiarism.

• cite

• site

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An avid believer of fate and superstition, Jasmine demanded that the fortune cookie _________ the Chinese main course.

• precede

• proceed

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You can ________ perishable food items for a long time by putting them in the freezer.

• persevere

• preserve

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This approach increases sales, but it also stands in austere contrast to a time

when goods were produced to be durable.

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• egregious

• unmitigated

• stark

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These models of prehistoric fossils have expanded researchers’ knowledge of ancient species and swear to advance the field of paleontology in the years to come.

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• subscribe

• vow

• promise

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In 1875 Tweed escaped from jail and fled to Spain and unwittingly brought about one final pinnacle for the power of political cartoons: A Spanish police officer

recognized Tweed from one of Nast’s cartoons.

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• triumph

• culmination

• apex

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More recently, Seymour Hersh, reporting for the New Yorker in 2004, helped publicize the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel at Abu Ghraib during the Iraq War. In these and other cases, exposure from reporters has served as an important blockade to or scolding of malfeasance.

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• interference to or condemnation of

• drag on or reproof of

• deterrent or rebuke to