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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings

Subjects : sat, english, vocabulary
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. 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.






2. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.






3. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment






4. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles






5. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.






6. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.






7. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly






8. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.






9. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame






10. 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.






11. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.






12. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste






13. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.






14. (n. - v.) - A factory where money is produced / To produce money also excellent condition Mint produced pennies. When they are minted - they are in mint condition.






15. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.






16. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.






17. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'






18. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup






19. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.






20. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.






21. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one






22. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.






23. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.






24. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.






25. To suspend; to engage; holding one's attention. I am afraid my brother is case of arrested development. Her beauty was arresting. His Chaucer lecture was arresting.






26. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers






27. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)






28. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.






29. 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.






30. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.






31. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated






32. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.






33. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.






34. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.






35. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.






36. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.






37. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -






38. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick






39. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.






40. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.






41. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.






42. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.






43. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.






44. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.






45. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.






46. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.






47. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.






48. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.






49. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.






50. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music