# Words in Context

A bank of words-in-context practice questions: a real sentence, four plausible options, and an explanation of why the right answer fits and why each distractor does not. Built for the current digital SAT format, which tests inference from context rather than memorised definitions. Optionally generate extra questions from your own reading or your own missed words.

**Not for:** Not affiliated with or endorsed by the College Board, and not a source of official practice tests. Does not track scores across devices or hold an account — progress stays in your own browser.

## Bank

- 20 curated, human-written questions
- core: 11
- foundation: 6
- stretch: 3

## Surfaces

- HTML: `https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com`
- Markdown: review pages at the same URLs with `Accept: text/markdown`
- JSON API: `https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/api/v1/draw`, `https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/api/v1/check`, `https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/api/v1/generate`
- OpenAPI: `https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/.well-known/openapi.json`
- MCP: `https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/api/mcp` — draw_items, check_answer, generate_items

Draw responses never contain the answer or the explanations. Use check to mark
an attempt and receive the teaching content.

## Practice sets

- [Every practice question](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/all-questions) — The whole bank, with the answer and the reason each distractor fails.
- [Foundation questions](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/foundation) — Start here. The context clue is close to the blank and points one way.
- [Core questions](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/core) — The level most of the test sits at, where at least one distractor is genuinely tempting.
- [Stretch questions](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/stretch) — Harder items where the wrong answers are near-synonyms with the wrong connotation.
- [Science passage vocabulary](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/science-passages) — Words as they appear in scientific writing — hedging, evidence, and causation.
- [Humanities passage vocabulary](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/humanities-passages) — Words for argument, interpretation, and scholarly disagreement.
- [Social science passage vocabulary](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/social-science-passages) — Words for policy, method, and the gap between a stated aim and a real one.
- [Literature passage vocabulary](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/literature-passages) — Words for character, tone, and the way a narrator reveals or conceals.
- [Words about evidence](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/words-about-evidence) — Corroborate, undermine, anomalous, plausible — how writers signal how much to trust a claim.
- [Words about certainty and doubt](https://words-in-context.gumballtools.com/practice/words-about-certainty) — Tenuous, inevitable, contingent, ostensibly — the vocabulary of how sure a writer is.