SAT Vocab Lesson 1

2. Speeches at the Academy Awards are not known for their ______; they often go on long past their allotted time.
4. The villagers depended on the wise sage's ______ advice and foresight.
5. Ricky, try to be a bit more ______ in this paper; the assignment was for a three-page paper, but yours was 106.
9. The peasants who were unhappy with the king's rule gathered together to ______ against him and overthrow the throne.
11. I've known Lucy for ten years, but she's so ______ that I hardly know anything about her past.

1. Even though I don't like pineapples on my pizza, I decided to ______ with my girlfriend's wish to order Hawaiian pizza.
2. My girlfriend tends to be ______ when she's mad; she just tells me to "talk to the hand".
3. After the peace treaty, the two tribes lived in ______.
6. Because commercial time during the Super Bowl runs over $3 million per minute, it's good to be ______.
7. Born with a(n) ______ defect, he had to undergo open-heart surgery to repair two holes as an infant.
8. The dictionary was 1,400 pages long before it was ______ by publishers to 850 pages.
10. The ______ between my two best friends put me in the awkward position of having to choose one over the other.