SAT-common words, alternate meanings

One strategy for helping to determine the meaning of the word in question is to substitute your own word and choose the answer choice that matches.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A strategy you should avoid  when answering a "vocabulary in context" question is to plug each answer choice into the sentence in order to determine which is correct.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A strategy for "vocabulary in context" questions is to determine from the context whether the word is positive or negative, then eliminate answer choices.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

"The tactics and aims of traffic management are modest but powerful.
Most intersections rely on a combination of pre-set timing and computer adaptation."
As used in the sentence, the word "modest" most nearly means...

• proper
• simple
• timid
• inexpensive

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CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

"The tactics and aims of traffic management are modest but powerful.
Most intersections rely on a combination of pre-set timing and computer adaptation."
Which word in the sentence is key to understanding that modest is being used in opposition to the word powerful?

• aims
• of
• but

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

"I cannot tell you how much joy has filled my heart as I have sat here listening to these papers and noting those characteristics that made each ....beautiful and masterful.  I would in no ways lessen the importance of these expressions by your various representatives, but I want to say that the words that specially voiced what I may call the up-gush of my souls were to be found in the paper read by Mrs. Swalm on 'the Newspaper as a Factor of Civilization.'"
Voiced most nearly means...

• recorded
• rose
• strained
• conveyed

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CCSS.L.5.5C

"I started a paper and ran it for two years at a vast cost to every one concerned in it.  I served seven years at lecturing to pay off the debt and interest on that paper and I considered myself fortunate to get off as easily as that."
Concerned most nearly means

• worried
• involved
• bothered
• altered

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CCSS.L.3.2F

"I have never been a pen artist and I have never succeeded with rhetorical flourishes unless it were by accident.  But I have always admired supremely that which I could realize the least.  The woman who can coin words and ideas to suit me best would not be unlike Mrs. Swalm, and when I heard her I said: 'That is worthy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.'"
"coin" most nearly means...

• gain
• spend
• think up
• learn about

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CCSS.L.5.5C

"The next journal I contributed to was the Una.  These two journals were the only avenues women had through which to face themselves in type to any extent worth of note before the war."
Avenues most nearly means...

• routes
• means
• escapes
• conventions

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CCSS.L.5.5C

"It is not to be denied that we live in the midst of strong agitations, and are surrounded by very considerable dangers to our institutions and government."
When trying to define "agitations" - which word/phrase indicates that the correct definition must be negative?

• not to be denied
• in the midst
• surrounded by
• very considerable dangers

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

CCSS.RL.11-12.4