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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 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.
Relief
die
exact
Compromise
2. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
flag
Precipitate
Qualify
Rake
3. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
pluck
table
list
Grill
4. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
consequential
Buffet
rail
Coin
5. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Rank
Gravity
ford
Affect/Affected
6. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Spare
nice
brook
color
7. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
stand
list
Slight
Coin
8. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Elliptical
Embroider
Floor
exact
9. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
prize
nice
occult
Eclipse
10. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
occult
Stem
color
consequential
11. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
sap
court
stand
Milk
12. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
rent
pine
table
damp
13. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
pluck
Discriminating
Sanction
Negotiate
14. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
Crop
sap
fell
15. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
rail
Staple
Grave/Gravity
Floor
16. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Embroider
obtain
Eclipse
Grate
17. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Check
Bent !
rail
pine
18. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
qualify
Lumber
strut
Grate
19. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
prize
Rake
Precipitate
trenchant
20. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
temper
nice
flag
table
21. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
sap
Grave/Gravity
Alien
flag
22. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Rail
Court
mince
appropriate
23. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
broach
essay
Police
Negotiate
24. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
essay
Relief
Negotiate
mince
25. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
strut
guy
Staple
pluck
26. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
Flag
damp
wag
scurvy
27. (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.
Sustain
sap
Police
scurvy
28. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Constitution
Bent
table
Channel
29. (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.
mince
Bridge
Hail
Police
30. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
flag
steep
quail
broach
31. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
stand
grouse
Bent
scurvy
32. 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.
Court
Precipitate
Temper
alloy
33. 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.
Precipitate
arrest/arresting
Coin
pedestrian
34. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
brook
pied
Qualify
quail
35. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Grate
prize
broach
grouse
36. (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.
Rail
essay
Stem
Constitution
37. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
guy
waffle
Eclipse
Sustain
38. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
strut
Court
Discriminating
list
39. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Slight
Pore
occult
appropriate
40. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Sustain
Buffet
pluck
Channel
41. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
temper
arrest/arresting
Crop
die
42. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
waffle
Hail
Carp
Lumber
43. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
broach
color
august
Sanction
44. 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.
Slight
pedestrian
Embroider
Qualify
45. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
quail
exact
Grate
46. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
die
Rail
broach
Affect/Affected
47. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
ford
trenchant
lumber
august
48. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Grave/Gravity
qualify
Modest
pluck
49. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Sustain
stand
Crop
Cavalier
50. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Qualify
arrest/arresting
Pore
Bent !