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A Taste of the SATs: Verbal

Every year, a new crop of college-bound students must endure the SATs. We've put together an SAT sampler so you can get a taste of the SATs. You'll probably agree: A taste is more than enough.

Note: Questions, answers, and explanations are reprinted from Cracking the SAT, published by The Princeton Review. Instructions and format have been modified slightly from the actual test format.

1 - It is ironic that the ------- insights of the great thinkers are voiced so often that they have become mere -------.
a) original. .clichés
b) banal. .beliefs
c) dubious. .habits
d) philosophical. .questions
e) abstract. .ideas


2 - CENSUS : POPULATION ::
a) catalog : pictures
b) inventory : supplies
c) detonation : explosion
d) dictionary : words
e) election : tally


3 - Because Jenkins neither ------- nor defends either management or the striking workers, both sides admire his journalistic -------.
a) criticizes. .acumen
b) attacks. .neutrality
c) confronts. .aptitude
d) dismisses. .flair
e) promotes. .integrity


4 - Since many disadvantaged individuals view their situations as ------- as well as intolerable, their attitudes are best described as -------.
a) squalid. .obscure
b) unpleasant. .bellicose
c) acute. . sanguine
d) immutable. .resigned
e) political. .perplexed


5 - SHIP : OCEAN ::
a) fish : gill
b) plane : air
c) child : bath
d) camel : water
e) car : passengers

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schsa

I missed #2. Not bad considering I'm not in school and haven't taken the SAT's since (ok, I'm not saying but I was in Paris and I was hung over when I took them).

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Kelsey1224

5 out of 5...does this mean I can go to princeton?

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adair

I missed #2

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CHERNL

I missed # 4.

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suziebee20

I missed #4 also.

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cpbaby

I got 5/5. Im right proud of myself!!

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JKATHERINE

5/5 yay i'm smart! lol

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PreciousDarlin

I got 5/5 as well. I'm just glad I still know all the stuff I learned in school. It's been 5 years since I took the ACT/SAT (scored VERY well on both) but did nothing with it because I got pregnant. At least I know I could if I wanted to.

NINK

i did great, i never took them in real life though, because i never planned on going to college.

fatesfaery

I missed #3. Whatever made me put journalistic and integrity together in a sentence??
I never took the SAT or ACT. It's been 24 years since HS and nearly 10 since community college, but those questions seemed fairly simple.