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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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1. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
Badger
Cavalier
Eclipse
2. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
steep
trenchant
Hail
Flag
3. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
court
occult
intimate
Police
4. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
Channel
Staple
Root
pied
5. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Discriminating
Coin
Precipitate
Modest
6. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
personification
august
Spare
Flag
7. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
negotiate
Cavalier
nice
Sanction
8. 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.
exact
singular
Temper
Compromise
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.
prize
Bent !
Bent
color
10. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Staple
stand
waffle
Lumber
11. (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.
broach
Subscribe
Bridge
Sustain
12. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Cavalier
Precipitate
Alien
Gravity
13. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
Root
Sanction
pied
august
14. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
court
arrest/arresting
qualify
color
15. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
consequential
scurvy
Rank
Pore
16. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
Sanction
Sustain
pine
17. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Eclipse
Modest
Lumber
Elliptical
18. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
meet
Coin
Compromise
Temper
19. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
steep
Stock
Spare
personification
20. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Rail
qualify
Stem
prize
21. (v) - To shock or stun
Cavalier
appropriate
Rank
Grate
22. (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
court
steep
appropriate
23. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
consequential
Alien
Buffet
Relief
24. To soften; moderate. Mr. King - after forbidding students to wear shirst with scenes of violence tempered his remarks by saying that they did not apply to boys who never wore hoodies or shirts with offensive militaristic designs to school
Bent
Sanction
Stock
Temper
25. 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 -
Cavalier
rail
Sanction
Court
26. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
pine
Precipitate
Modest
Eclipse
27. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
Badger
Grill
Carp
28. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
waffle
meet
flag
Cavalier
29. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
arrest/arresting
wag
Sustain
Pore
30. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Rail
scurvy
rail
Slight
31. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
list
Discriminating
Buffet
Lumber
32. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
damp
stand
flag
appropriate
33. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Cavalier
Currency
Flag
Floor
34. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
Sanction
Bent
Carp
die
35. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
strut
Channel
Floor
intimate
36. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Rake
prize
Gravity
mince
37. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
Coin
pine
essay
Compromise
38. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Bent !
Rank
consequential
Badger
39. 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.
alloy
broach
Eclipse
Slight
40. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Flag
Relief
Sanction
Coin
41. (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.
Mint
color
Police
rail
42. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
appropriate
lumber
waffle
fell
43. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Buffet
intimate
Cave
august
44. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Eclipse
wag
qualify
Bent !
45. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
grouse
Buffet
trenchant
temper
46. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
brook
Root
mince
Slight
47. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
august
intimate
list
Stock
48. (v.) - To attempt to get recognition or applause (e.g. to milk an audience) The young singer stayed on stage after the applause died down hoping to milk more even more recognition from the audience.
Milk
Check
occult
quail
49. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Precipitate
Currency
obtain
Grave/Gravity
50. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Rake
Channel
Alien
guy