SAT Academic Vocabulary List #9

Match the following

• make a guess about what will happen in the future

• predict

• explain the meaning of a word

• fact

• a piece of information about events that have occurred

• challenge

• anything that contributes causally to a result

• factor

• take exception to

• define

Match the following

• examine and note the similarities or differences of

• compare

• have as a part; be made up out of

• include

• one of several distinct subdivisions of a text

• example

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• likely

• having a good chance of being the case or of coming about

• paragraph

You can't argue with ____s: a ____ is something proven to be true. It's important to distinguish between ____ and fiction.

• factor

• fact

• define

• predict

A _____ is a part or element that contributes to a result. If you only fly budget airlines and refuse to stay anywhere but youth hostels, then money is probably a big _____ in your travel plans.

• define

• fact

• factor

• predict

If you can't _____ a word, turn to the dictionary. That's always the best way to learn the definition. Likewise, anything you can describe completely is something you can ______.

• define

• predict

• challenge

• factor

Psychics claim to _____ the future, which means they say they can tell you what is going to happen in advance, before it actually happens. On the SAT, we _____ that you will see the word _________on the Reading Test, most likely in an answer option. A passage may _____ a particular outcome. An example of foreshadowing may _____ an event in a literature passage. Or, scientists may _____ or make an educated guess about the results of an experiment (in a science passage).

• define

• predict

• challenge

• fact

A ______ is something that puts you to the test — like running your first marathon or reading War and Peace.

• fact

• challenge

• predict

• define

To ______ is to look at two things and see how they are similar and different.

• challenge

• predict

• compare

• likely

If something's probably true, it's _____. When you walk in the rain, it's ______ that your shoes will get wet.

• compare

• challenge

• likely

• paragraph

A full page of text with no visible breaks is hard to read. That’s why you break your ideas up into groups of sentences, called _____. Each ______ contains logically connected sentences about one main idea.

• paragraph

• include

• likely

• emotion