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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
list
table
quail
Elliptical
2. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Flag
steep
qualify
negotiate
3. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
pluck
pedestrian
temper
Gravity
4. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
court
guy
trenchant
mince
5. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
Lumber
personification
damp
guy
6. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Sanction
list
Grave/Gravity
guy
7. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Grate
Grill
table
Embroider
8. Ordinary. Please don't wear the solid red tie; it is so pedestrian. Please don't order a hotdog at the restaurant - it's so pedestrian.
Channel
Lumber
pedestrian
Severe
9. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Stock
table
grouse
prize
10. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Staple
pine
Embroider
Spare
11. (n.) - The physical character - health of a body. I am very lucky because I have a very healthy constitution - so have never missed a day of school.
Constitution
Hail
rail
Rail
12. To attempt to gain the favor or support of a person or group - The politician courted support for the new bill he wanted to pass -
Bridge
appropriate
Court
Milk
13. To co-mingle - to debase by mirroring with something inferior. I am afraid the bowl is made of an alloy - not sterling as we thought.
table
alloy
Sustain
Bent !
14. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
trenchant
arrest/arresting
qualify
Badger
15. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
Grate
Cave
Eclipse
16. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
rent
intimate
Bent !
grouse
17. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
Channel
damp
Stock
Flag
18. (v.) - To regulate - control. Who is going to police the dark alley to make sure it is safe for the young children who pass by every day.
pedestrian
Police
list
grouse
19. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
fell
Stock
Channel
pluck
20. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
meet
Lumber
Bent
steep
21. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Qualify
Sustain
pedestrian
pied
22. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Pore
prize
rail
Crop
23. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
singular
Grill
waffle
august
24. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Lumber
Alien
singular
scurvy
25. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
Crop
color
Channel
die
26. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
pied
Badger
Buffet
sap
27. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
waffle
prize
Negotiate
Cave
28. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
personification
Sanction
Pore
pied
29. (v) - To shock or stun
Grate
Discriminating
Staple
pluck
30. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Spare
Bridge
Relief
qualify
31. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Pore
Discriminating
nice
pied
32. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Discriminating
intimate
lumber
Buffet
33. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
table
Elliptical
Cave
waffle
34. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
Precipitate
pied
Constitution
Sanction
35. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Root
Eclipse
essay
Coin
36. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
pine
Precipitate
Embroider
Constitution
37. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
consequential
fell
Floor
Grill
38. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
color
Carp
pluck
Coin
39. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Precipitate
personification
Crop
Channel
40. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
grouse
pedestrian
Subscribe
Bent !
41. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Rake
Temper
broach
intimate
42. (v.) - To join two things together The wellness club and the athletic department were bridged my their mutual interest in having Hackley serve healthy food.
ford
Spare
negotiate
Bridge
43. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
temper
Rail
Cave
strut
44. To demand - call for - require - take. Our English teachers demands were exacting. The pressure of public speaking exacted a tremendous amount of vitality from George VI.
Sanction
exact
Check
Bent
45. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Gravity
Severe
Qualify
Grill
46. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Negotiate
qualify
pluck
Subscribe
47. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
table
pedestrian
nice
Rank
48. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Cave
Embroider
Milk
rent
49. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
pluck
obtain
list
Alien
50. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Grill
prize
Elliptical
appropriate