English SAT / Vocabulary

All of the factors that allowed the Great Barrier Reef to..................................

are changing at unprecedented

rates. Over the next several decades, marine biologists believe, it is likely to decline below a crucial threshold from which it is impossible to recover.

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

• flourish

• diminish

• extend

• succumb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Although traditional historians and historical filmmakers differ in their choice of medium, the most respected ones share a scrupulous regard for facts and the rules of evidence that..................... their acceptability.

• deny

• rely on

• dictate

• complete

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

In the past, psychologists dismissed fiction as a way of understanding human emotions. In more recent times, however, they have developed a new ..................................... for the insights that stories can provide into human behavior.

• disregard

• explanation

• responsibilty

• appreciation

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

Okakura Kakuzo is credited with the revival of Nihonga, painting done with traditional Japanese techniques, at a time when Western-style painting was threatening to ............................

it. When, in 1897, it became clear that European methods were to be given prominence at the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts, he resigned his directorship and shortly after helped found the Japanese National Arts Academy.

• supplant

• deny

• salavag

• challenge

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Like many of the surgeons general before her, Joycelyn Elders became an outspoken advocate for a variety of controversial health issues. As a result, she quickly established a reputation for being................

• a pragmatist

• a polemicist

• a curiosity

• an amateur

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Chicago epitomized the remarkable...................................of urbanization during the nineteenth century.

The city expanded from several hundred residents in 1830 to nearly two million just eighty years later.

• velocity

• significance

• mastery

• influence

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Lynn Margulis's revolutionary theory of eukaryotic cell development was initially met with almost unanimous........................... because it built upon ideas that had largely been discredited. In fact, her groundbreaking 1967 paper, "On the Origin of Mitosing Cells,* was published only after being rejected by fifteen journals.

• scorn

• jubilation

• consideration

• impatience

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Proponents of the Arts and Crafts movement claimed that its simple but refined aesthetics would......................... the new experience of industrial consumerism. Individuals would become more rational and society more harmonious.

• contain

• elevate

• compromise

• enjoy

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The whale is a remarkably......................... navigator,

migrating thousands of miles each year without a compass and always arriving in precisely the same spot.

• docile

• advantageous

• adept

• precocious

At its peak, roughly corresponding to the Middle Ages, Constantinople was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. It........................ a powerful cultural pull and dominated economic life throughout the Mediterranean basin.

• defended

• exerted

• restrained

• thawrted

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E