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SAT Words in Context practice questions

Pick the most logical and precise word or phrase for a blank in a short passage.

Practice Words in Context 188 questions, no account needed.

The usual trap

The clue is in the sentences around the blank. A word can sound fine in the sentence and still say the opposite of what the passage describes.

Try three questions

Pick an answer to check it and see why.

  1. 01Question 1

    Easy

    When Rosa Parks declined to give up her bus seat in 1955, her quiet ______ helped set off the Montgomery bus boycott. For more than a year, Black residents refused to ride the city's segregated buses, a protest that drew national attention to the injustice of the system.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

  2. 02Question 2

    Medium

    A dense shroud of carbon dioxide wraps Venus from pole to pole. Rather than letting the Sun's warmth escape back to space, that atmosphere ________ the heat, trapping it in a runaway greenhouse effect that leaves the surface hot enough to melt lead.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

  3. 03Question 3

    Hard

    Astronomers before Annie Jump Cannon had sorted stars by a tangle of competing schemes. Cannon replaced the confusion with a single ______ system, so clear and consistent that it remains the standard by which stars are classified today.

    Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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