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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings
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sat
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english
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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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1. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
stand
pied
obtain
lumber
2. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Qualify
stand
intimate
Grave/Gravity
3. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
nice
Relief
Rail
Channel
4. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
pied
Carp
die
5. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Rank
Severe
Grill
Check
6. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
sap
Subscribe
Pore
Cave
7. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
obtain
Floor
Precipitate
stand
8. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Badger
pluck
Court
flag
9. (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.
Police
rail
fell
stand
10. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
damp
Buffet
Rake
guy
11. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Flag
guy
die
Bent !
12. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
singular
personification
Qualify
strut
13. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
Spare
Modest
lumber
waffle
14. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Crop
color
Channel
Precipitate
15. 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.
Cavalier
damp
exact
Alien
16. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
fell
Modest
ford
Negotiate
17. 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.
appropriate
alloy
ford
Discriminating
18. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
Police
table
Flag
Gravity
19. (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.
Bridge
Grave/Gravity
flag
fell
20. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
Sanction
court
appropriate
prize
21. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Grave/Gravity
Buffet
arrest/arresting
pedestrian
22. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Precipitate
qualify
Elliptical
Subscribe
23. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
alloy
Crop
negotiate
singular
24. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Grave/Gravity
pied
alloy
august
25. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
meet
Discriminating
Currency
pine
26. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Bent
Precipitate
waffle
Rail
27. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Bent
trenchant
Currency
Badger
28. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
occult
trenchant
Carp
Elliptical
29. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
lumber
mince
alloy
wag
30. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Temper
guy
Coin
Elliptical
31. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Bridge
Compromise
quail
Stock
32. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
exact
brook
Stem
die
33. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
singular
Floor
quail
negotiate
34. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
Precipitate
Affect/Affected
rail
scurvy
35. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
temper
essay
prize
Affect/Affected
36. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Bent !
nice
waffle
arrest/arresting
37. (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.
color
Mint
Discriminating
flag
38. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Temper
Relief
brook
Severe
39. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Check
Pore
Flag
Spare
40. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
obtain
Precipitate
Eclipse
Grave/Gravity
41. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Alien
Flag
Police
Subscribe
42. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Eclipse
mince
Embroider
singular
43. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Slight
rail
list
Gravity
44. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
ford
Severe
Cavalier
Sustain
45. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
pluck
Bent
Check
Modest
46. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Stock
Severe
Sanction
Subscribe
47. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Rank
Lumber
intimate
august
48. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Grave/Gravity
flip
pied
Pore
49. 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 -
Pore
Rank
Court
obtain
50. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
brook
Rail
Constitution
nice