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Tricks/Traps/Details
100
Candid
What is completely honest?
100
careful or prudent
What is circumspect?
100
The journalist made sure all of the sources for her front page story were _________, so the public would know it was true.
What is credible?
100
Questions 1 & 2 of the TOEFL speaking section ask about...
What is your life experience/opinion?
100
The kind of words in the "tone/attitude" questions of the reading section that Joe Bloggs would choose. An ETS trap.
What are extreme, uncaring, or unknowledgeable?
200
enigma
What is a puzzle or mystery?
200
worldly, widely sophisticated
What is cosmopolitan?
200
Create a sentence about a politician extolling something.
"President Obama extolled the benefits of eating a healthy diet."
200
The first thing you read of each regular reading comprehension passage.
What is the italicized blurb/introduction/paragraph?
200
The kind of trigger these words are: however, though, unfortunately, and but.
What is opposite direction triggers?
300
idosyncrasy
What is characteristic specific to an individual or group?
300
to be free from blame
What is exonerate?
300
Mark danced and sang through the halls of the school; he was _____________ about his score of 2400 on the SAT.
What is exuberant?
300
The steps you do to answer "sentence completion" questions.
What are cover the answers, read the question, underline clues, circle triggers, come up with your own answer, use POE?
300
Draw the structure for note taking of the integrated speaking section.
What is ... view.
400
obsequious
What is too eager to help or obey someone, fawning and servile?
400
pretending to or making yourself to seem very religious, holy, or clear of any wrongdoing when in reality you are not so much
What is sanctimonious?
400
Create a sentence to describe a penchant teacher Jeremy has.
Teacher Jeremy has a penchant for gesturing with his hands wildly/weird facial hair/photography/etc.
400
The names of the five types of questions for the SAT regular reading passage.
What are detail, purpose, suggest/infer/imply/agree, vocab in context, and tone/attitude questions?
400
The nine categories that can be used to explain your opinion/experience for the TOEFL independent speaking and writing questions.
What are study, technology, food, home (friends & family), travel, entertainment, sports, shopping, and career.
500
lugubrious
What is dismal, gloomy, or mournful to an exaggerated degree?
500
insulting, humiliating, disparaging (adj)
What is pejorative?
500
Frankie ____________ the story that he used to date Kitty Zhang.
What is fabricated?
500
The five question types of the SAT short passage reading section.
What are primary purpose, weaken/strengthen, analogy, except/least/not, and two passage questions?
500
The type of answers you should look for on the SAT and the types of answers Joe Bloggs looks for on the SAT.
What are wrong and right answers?