SAT Academic Vocabulary #4

Match the following

• direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question

• underscore

• move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

• highlight

• give extra weight to, to state again

• adapt

• give evidence for

• address

• make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose

• validate

Match the following

• make a remark that calls attention to

• suggest

• refer to for illustration or proof

• tone

• a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author

• character

• an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• refer

• imply as a possibility

• cite

If you missed the big game, don't worry — you can still catch the ______ on the news. A ______ is the most important or memorable part of something.

• highlight

• underscore

• validate

• adapt

To _______ is to draw special attention to a fact, idea, or situation. When you're involved in a debate, it's wise to _______ the points that best support your argument.

• highlight

• underscore

• adapt

• validate

Say you move to a country where everyone cooks with lots of hot peppers. At first the food scalds your tongue, but over time you ______ — you change in a way that allows you to deal with the new circumstances.

• underscore

• validate

• adapt

• highlight

To ______ is to prove that something is based on truth or fact, or is acceptable. It can also mean to make something, like a contract, legal

• validate

• underscore

• adapt

• highlight

When you are a student and you want to ______ your teacher, it's generally safer to call her Ms. and not ______ her by her first name, Esmeralda.

• address

• validate

• cite

• tone

If you _____ to something, you consult it. To check your spelling, you _____ to a dictionary. If you want to know when your spring break starts, you can _____ to your class schedule.

• address

• refer

• cite

• tone

To _____ something means to do right by whoever said it and give them credit — for instance, if you add a brilliant statement to a paper but you’re not the one who originally wrote it, you should _____, or point to, the original author.

• tone

• address

• refer

• cite

A _____ is the kind of sound you hear in a musical note, or in a person's voice live or in writing. A newspaper article should be objective, but a poem can bring up all kinds of emotions, depending on the _____.

• cite

• character

• tone

• suggest