<p>Is it just me or were some of those sentence completion questions exactly the same as practice tests?</p>
<p>That one talking about SETI seemed really familar...</p>
<p>I thought the same way too. The one about Mexico. What was the answer btw? Region? I thought that question seemed strange.</p>
<p>And ephemeral means transient or temporary, right? Sorry, I'm too lazy to check on the net, lol.</p>
<p>They had an entire passage about SETI on the May (or June? I forget) SAT.</p>
<p>Ephemeral means short-lived, so yes.</p>
<p>I don't know about the sentences themselves being similar (I did maybe four or five practice tests, just doing the sentence completions) but a lot of the words seem to be on the test. I had actually made a list of words that I collected in my reading and experiences and some words that I didn't know in the practice tests. I looked at it literally five minutes before I left for the SAT, using my computer dictionary, and I swear at 5+ of those words showed up. I realize it isn't as useful now, but if anyone cares, this was my list (it includes references to the dictionary I use, which is based on the Oxford American Dictionaries):</p>
<p> to a fault
incorrigible
attenuated
ebb
prelude
score
supinate
pronate
squalid
seedy
deportment
redolent
execrable
strident
to no effect
to intimate
potable
potation
alacrity and its synonyms
"chief" purveyor and its synonyms
fawn over
curry favor with
dance attendance on
sycophant
creature comforts
platitude and its synonyms
unctuous, oily
quiescence
latent
perspicacious
convey
parochial
impetuous
inscrutable
enigmatic
pendant
teeming
specter
precarious
dynamics
divers and its synonyms
quack and its synonyms
baroque
perfunctory
caricature and its note
anxious
unctuous
usurp
variegated
carrion
fester
regicide
flippant/facetious
with respect to and its synonyms
cabaret
burr
quid-pro-quo
politburo
napalm
defile
dissemble
dissimulate
indirection
halting
stilted
excoriate, chafe, abrade
intemperate
imperious
histrionic
arable
membranous
compendious
wist******ful
opacity
vacuous
idiosyncrasy
regressive
temporize
dalliance
pragmatic
prosaic
fastidious
sedulous-check note
mercenary
cursory-check note
treacle
vindicate
equitablesee note in ahd4
conflagration
ineffable
intermittent
multifarious
bucolic
sylvan
Byzantine
lackadaisical
onerous
slipshod
sophistry
curtail
disingenuous
ingenuous
openhanded
constituency
appease or accede
sunder
sundry
totalitarian and its synonyms
predilection
profundity
perquisite
defect (v.)
empirical
quixotic
indigenous
pliant
venal
venial
mortal
supple
confound
exigent
banal
diminutive
acute in all its definitions
enfranchise
beleagured
austere
germane and its synonyms
placid and calm note
perspicuous
premature and its synonyms
consolidate
modal
splayed
diaphanous
feudal
vassals
bristle/horripilate
tentatively
hire (british sense)
livery
debase/abase
forest
slatternly
mantelpiece
fender (all senses)
hob (first sense)
leaf (all senses)
incongruous
congruous
supercilious
actuated
officiousness
lassitude
main (all senses)
knell
leaden
mainstay
augment</p>