PSAT Vocab in Context

Scientists suggest that the bees "understand" the dance because it illicits a uniform response from the viewers.

• CORRECT
• elicits
• illuminates
• excises

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1G

CCSS.L.K.4A

Much of Maya Angelou's success has been attributed to her ability to connect with her audience thorough vivid imagery, instigating powerful emotions from her readers.

• CORRECT
• infuriating
• agitating
• evoking

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The increase in productivity did not validate the harms caused to child laborers.

• CORRECT
• justify
• rate
• corroborate

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Archivists must understand how different materials will decompress over time and what chemicals will best preserve them over time.

• CORRECT
• decompose
• degenerate
• renege

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

In 2005, a group of scientists at Yale University conducted a study to investigate whether mediation might infect the physical growth and development of certain parts of the brain.

• CORRECT
• affect
• inflect
• effect

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

In George Balanchine's 1954 version of The Nutcracker, a pugnacious, many-headed mouse is renounced in battle by a living doll.

• CORRECT
• retreated
• defeated
• upended

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Although she followed acclaimed British female novelists antecedents like Jane Austen and the Bronte Sisters, George Eliot made her way in a literary field dominated by men.

• CORRECT
• forebears
• ancestors
• predecessors

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Compared to the work of some other professions, the work of mechanical engineers is often more tangible; the day-to-day work of many mechanical engineers involves hands-on experimentation and fabrication.

• CORRECT
• genuine
• actual
• certain

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

No one knew whether to celebrate or not, because the results of the game were still unfinished.

• CORRECT
• inconclusive
• deficient
• unfateful

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Julie believes that a pure bedroom is the mark of an organized person. So when she interviews potential new employees, she asks them to describe their living space.

• CORRECT
• spotless
• stainless
• antiseptic

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4