SAT Vocabulary

1- They stood, she thought, the same ------------------ family, looking out from their sanctuary into the vague but hopeful unknown.

• a. rudimentary

• b. quintessential

• c. intuitive

1- His intellect was logical in the highest degree; he was clear and precise, an enemy of loose reasoning, and quick to --------------- prevailing fallacies.

• a. chide

• b. refute

• c. smug

1- She was a mystic, with remarkable ----------------------- powers, and did great service as a nurse, a spy and a scout in the Civil War.

• a. clairvoyant

• b. instructive

• c. disruptive

1- There were contradictions in her----------------, so the judge decided not to include her as a witness.

• a. approval

• b. testimony

• c. ingenuity

1- This excludes all possibility of innate ideas or any faculty akin to ---------------- reason.

• a. intuitive

• b. disruptive

• c. conspicuous

1- His mind always at work, Alvin ----------------- ways to make such programs more appealing to unsophisticated audiences.

• a. pondered

• b. jeered

• c. ratified

1- Even as Lincoln ----------------- McClellan for his excessive caution, the Confederates completed another act of daring.

• a. refuted

• b. chided

• c. vindicated

1- The Allies are being asked to provide more ------------------ for those fleeing the fighting.

• a. smirk

• b. refuges

• c. sovereignty

1- Of all the mechanisms which sustain him in that feeling of ------------------- self-satisfaction with himself, the chief one is self-justifying.

• a. scarce

• b. incredulous

• c. smug

1- I guess mostly I just feel ----------------------- by the displays of strength and by the inability to expect what to come .

• a. Ingenious

• b. Intuitive

• c. intimidated