Tackling the SAT Critical Reading: Essential Vocab

Here is a list of words that you should definitely be familiar with for the SAT Critical Reading section. These words often come up in passage questions, so get memorizing! Aesthetic Allusion Ambivalent Anecdote Assert Assess Belied Characterize Compare Concur Contempt Contrast Conventional Convey Debunk Digression Discern Discredit Disengaged Disinterested Dismissive Disparage Disparity Dispassionate Dubious

Tackling the SAT Critical Reading: Tone Words

In short or long reading passages, questions will often ask for the author’s tone or for his perspective on the subject at hand. Knowing the major categories for tone as well as their accompanying synonyms will ensure that you are prepared for such questions.   Words used to describe when somebody simply does not care

Tackling the SAT Critical Reading: New Words

Tackling the SAT Critical Reading: New Words

While process of elimination is the go-to if you can eliminate at least one answer choice, what do you do when you cannot for the life of you define any of the vocabulary words in your answer choices?

Addressing the following can shed some light on your darkness:

Tackling the SAT: Sentence Completion

As you hopefully know by now, the Critical Reading section of the SAT consists of Sentence Completion and Reading Comprehension. Sentence Completion questions are arranged in groups of five, six, and eight sentences, following a rough order of difficulty. The first third are easy; the second third are of medium difficulty; and the last few