Free SAT® Practice Question: Words in Context
Learn to evaluate context clues for higher scores.
Today’s free SAT® practice question is a mock Words in Context Question. It follows the digital SAT® format but is also great preparation for the ACT®.
For effective time management on test day, you should aim to answer this question correctly in a maximum of 40 seconds.
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Free SAT® Practice Question
In his analysis of Shakespeare's later tragedies, literary scholar Harold Bloom ______ the protagonists' fatal choices not as mere character flaws but as necessary consequences of their heightened self-awareness, suggesting that their downfalls stem from an unusually profound understanding of their own existential circumstances.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. exculpates
B. construes
C. mitigates
D. propitiates
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