SAT Reading Practice Test #1: Vocabulary Words and Meanings, Exams of English Literature

Download SAT Reading Practice Test #1: Vocabulary Words and Meanings and more Exams English Literature in PDF only on Docsity! SAT Practice Test #1 (Reading 2) prudence - acting with or showing care and thought for the future aloofness - not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant derail - cause to leave its tracks accidentally stimulus - thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue dictum - formal pronouncement from an authoritative sources respite - short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant concession - thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conceded equivocate - use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself denunciation - public condemnation of someone or something pedestrian - person walking along a road or in a developed area unprecedented - never done or known before derivative - imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that reason inept - having or showing no skill; clumsy improbable - not likely to be true or to happen cryptic - having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure judicious - having, showing or done with good judgement or sense jubilant - feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph supercilious - behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others pugnacious -