Craft and Structure · ~28% of Reading & Writing
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Words in Context gives you a short passage with a blank, and asks which word or phrase completes it most logically and precisely — or, less often, what a word already in the passage means in that specific sentence. It is not a vocabulary-recall question: the tested words are ordinary academic words, and the difficulty is entirely in reading what the sentence commits you to.
Read the whole sentence before looking at the choices, and cover them if you have to. Find the structural signal — a colon, a semicolon, "but", "although", "however", "because" — because it tells you whether the blank agrees with what came before or reverses it. Predict a word of your own, then pick the choice closest to your prediction. Going to the choices first is what turns an easy question into a coin flip between two words you half-recognise.
Picking a word that fits the topic instead of the sentence. Every wrong choice will be plausible about the subject matter; only one satisfies the logical relationship the punctuation and conjunctions set up. If two choices both feel right, you have not found the signal yet — go back to it rather than choosing on feel.
The old family recipe had been passed down ______, with each generation adjusting the proportions slightly based on personal taste and available ingredients.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Answer: B. Each generation adjusting proportions based on taste and availability describes a loose, non-standardized transmission of the recipe. 'Informally' fits; 'unchanged' directly contradicts the described adjustments.
50+ questions across 6 drills. Each drill is answered as a set — you see every explanation at once, at the end.
10 Words in Context questions, easiest first, every answer explained.
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Vocabulary in context, what a sentence is doing rather than what it says, and how two short texts relate to each other.
Words in Context gives you a short passage with a blank, and asks which word or phrase completes it most logically and precisely — or, less often, what a word already in the passage means in that specific sentence. It is not a vocabulary-recall question: the tested words are ordinary academic words, and the difficulty is entirely in reading what the sentence commits you to.
Read the whole sentence before looking at the choices, and cover them if you have to. Find the structural signal — a colon, a semicolon, "but", "although", "however", "because" — because it tells you whether the blank agrees with what came before or reverses it. Predict a word of your own, then pick the choice closest to your prediction. Going to the choices first is what turns an easy question into a coin flip between two words you half-recognise.
Words in Context sits in the Craft and Structure domain, which is ~28% of the Reading & Writing section — roughly 13–15 of its 54 questions. The College Board publishes weights by domain, not by individual skill, so an exact per-skill count is not something anyone can promise you.
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