With the help of reports from Reddit's r/SAT, I’ve compiled a list of the most common and challenging vocabulary from the March 2024 US and International SATs. I've put these into a quiz format for students and parents to challenge themselves. Good luck!

SAT Vocabulary March 2024 - Warm-up Reading Passage

Instructions: Read this passage carefully before taking your quiz. All 15 vocabulary words from March 2024 appear in context. Pay attention to how each word is used naturally in the story.

The Archaeological Discovery

Dr. Elena Rodriguez wiped sweat from her brow as she examined the ancient pottery fragments scattered across the excavation site. After months of sporadic funding delays and equipment failures, her team had finally uncovered what appeared to be an indigenous settlement dating back over a thousand years.

"This is only preliminary evidence," she cautioned her eager graduate students, though her excitement was irrefutable. The artifacts they'd discovered were far from superficial tourist trinkets—these were sophisticated ceremonial objects that would require exhaustive analysis to fully understand.

Dr. Martinez, the team's dogmatic senior archaeologist, refused to vacillate between theories. "These patterns are clearly ritualistic," he declared, dismissing alternative interpretations. His certainty frustrated Elena, who found his rigid approach intellectually banal and scientifically limiting.

The discovery's significance became equivocal when Elena realized that previous assumptions about the site might preclude accurate dating. The pottery styles served as a precursor to later civilizations, but determining exact timelines proved challenging.

As news of the find spread, Elena faced an unexpected detractor—a blogger who claimed the artifacts were superfluous additions planted by the research team. The accusation was baseless, but it threatened to overshadow their legitimate scientific work.

Standing in the idle evening hours after her team had departed, Elena reflected on the complexities of archaeological research. Each fragment told a story that connected the present to an ancient past, bridging cultures separated by centuries but united by shared human experiences.

The pottery would eventually find its way to museums, but for now, it remained in Elena's careful hands—tangible proof of civilizations that had thrived long before modern scholars arrived to interpret their legacy.