SAT Reading & Writing · Craft and Structure
Words in Context practice questions
Each free question on this page comes with its answer and a full explanation.
- Question 16For decades, a leading textbook's account of a chemical reaction mechanism went essentially unquestioned, cited in hundreds of…
- Question 17Critics initially found the sculptor's use of industrial scrap metal ______, associating fine art with traditional materials…
- Question 42For years, the committee's decisions on grant funding had been made behind closed doors, with no public record of how any single…
- Question 43The new employee asked so many thoughtful questions during her first week that her manager described her as remarkably ______.…
- Question 66The philosopher's argument was widely admired for its ______, building each conclusion so carefully on the last that no step…
- Question 67The playwright's dialogue was praised for its ______ quality, capturing the rhythms and hesitations of real conversation instead…
- Question 88The endorsement was carefully ______: the committee praised the drug's early results while explicitly declining to recommend it…
- Question 89Although the two research teams had reached their conclusions independently, using different methods and working in different…
- Question 115The senator's speech was praised for its ______ argument, one that moved logically from a single observation to a sweeping…
- Question 116Because the two archives were assembled for different purposes, their records are not directly comparable. The historian…
- Question 131The committee's report was praised for its unusually ______ tone, acknowledging the limitations of its own data and explicitly…
- Question 132The old contract's language was so ______ that two lawyers reviewing the same clause reached entirely opposite conclusions about…
- Question 161The city's new zoning proposal drew criticism for being needlessly ______, requiring separate permits and reviews for changes…
- Question 162Critics initially dismissed the small startup's technology as a minor novelty, but within five years it had become so ______ to…
- Question 173The professor's lecture style was notoriously ______, weaving through several tangential stories before eventually, and often…
- Question 174The new measurements did not overturn the earlier estimate, but they substantially ______ the range of values researchers…
- Question 192The panel's report was criticized for reaching a conclusion that seemed ______ by the limited data actually presented, drawing…
- Question 193The two proposals seemed at first to be entirely different approaches, but a closer reading revealed several ______ elements,…
- Question 211Despite the merger announcement, financial analysts described investor confidence as ______, pointing to unusually low trading…
- Question 212Despite repeated warnings from engineers about the design's structural weaknesses, management remained ______, dismissing every…
- Question 241The scholar's argument, though built on an impressive volume of historical detail, ultimately rested on a single ______…
- Question 242The two studies appear to disagree, but the conflict is partly ______ once their sampling methods are considered: one study…
- Question 260The committee's final recommendation was notably ______, avoiding any specific numerical targets or firm deadlines that could…
- Question 277The committee's decision to postpone the vote was met with ______ from board members who had traveled long distances…
- Question 281The scientist's early papers were largely ______ by the field, cited only rarely for decades until a chance discovery decades…
- Question 282The city's proposed budget contained several line items that seemed ______, appearing in the document without any clear…
- Question 283Years of drought had left the reservoir at a fraction of its normal capacity, and engineers described the water supply situation…
- Question 290The negotiator's reputation for finding a middle ground made her the obvious choice to ______ the dispute between the two…
- Question 291The museum's new wing was praised for its ______ design, allowing visitors to move naturally from one exhibit to the next…
- Question 294The startup's early investors were praised for their ______ patience, waiting nearly a decade for the company to become…
- Question 295The biographer avoids treating the subject’s diary as a transparent record of events. Because the entries were often revised…