This document contains summaries of three different SAT practice questions from January 30th, 2013, January 14th, 2013, and January 16th, 2013. The first question asks to select the best phrasing of an underlined portion of a sentence about Gabriel García Márquez's works. The second asks to select words to complete a sentence about Alfred Nobel discovering nitroglycerin was unstable. The third asks to select words to complete a sentence criticizing an artist's rendering of an ancient mammal as unsupported by evidence.

1. SAT QUESTION OF THE DAY & GLADIATOR WORD OF THE DAY
January 30, 2013
Part or all of the following sentence is underlined;
beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the
underlined material. Select the option that produces the
best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces
a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select
choice A.
For both his shorter and longer works of
fiction, Gabriel García Márquez achieves the rare
feat of being accessible to the common reader
while satisfying the most demanding of
sophisticated critics.
(A) For both his shorter and longer
(B) For both his shorter, and in his longer,
(C) In both his shorter and his longer
(D) Both in his shorter and his longer
(E) Both his shorter and longer

2. SAT QUESTION OF THE DAY & GLADIATOR WORD OF THE DAY
January 14, 2013

3. Choose the word or set of
words that, when inserted DAY & GLADIATOR
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the sentence, best fits the
January 15, 2013
meaning of the sentence as a
whole.
When, in 1864, a factory
established by Alfred
Nobel to manufacture
nitroglycerin blew
up, the scientist
discovered that the
explosive was as ------ as it was powerful, ------ to detonate
without warning.
(A) dormant . . ready
(B) fickle . . unlikely
WORD OF THE DAY

4. SAT QUESTION OF THE DAY & GLADIATOR WORD OF THE DAY
January 16, 2013
Choose the word or set of words that, when
inserted in the sentence, best fits the
meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Ms. Ferguson’s main criticism of the
artist’s rendering of the ancient
mammal’s physical appearance is
that, unsupported by even a ------- of
fossil evidence, the image is bound
to be ------- .
(A) modicum . . speculative
(B) particle . . supplemented
(C) perusal . . substantiated
(D) fabrication . . obsolete
(E) recapitulation . . exhausted