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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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1. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
guy
steep
Channel
Cave
2. 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.
intimate
steep
pedestrian
Bent
3. (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
list
personification
Bridge
4. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Carp
Constitution
Mint
Coin
5. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Carp
pine
consequential
waffle
6. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Sanction
Buffet
Bridge
meet
7. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
negotiate
Constitution
Staple
Grill
8. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Elliptical
guy
die
Crop
9. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
rail
wag
grouse
Carp
10. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
flip
Subscribe
scurvy
brook
11. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
brook
Gravity
Negotiate
flag
12. 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.
Relief
temper
alloy
Discriminating
13. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
rail
Sanction
Pore
nice
14. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
Rank
steep
broach
Grate
15. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
temper
Rail
pedestrian
die
16. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
list
Elliptical
Carp
intimate
17. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Flag
flip
prize
obtain
18. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
quail
Lumber
Currency
Discriminating
19. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Channel
temper
Hail
broach
20. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
prize
Badger
quail
pine
21. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
sap
rent
alloy
color
22. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
stand
Grill
Grave/Gravity
Eclipse
23. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
grouse
Floor
stand
arrest/arresting
24. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
august
Rank
flip
lumber
25. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
Modest
personification
Lumber
flip
26. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Crop
Coin
steep
rail
27. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
grouse
Channel
Floor
singular
28. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
court
list
Severe
flip
29. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
court
Court
damp
Cave
30. 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.
Compromise
arrest/arresting
rail
Rake
31. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
personification
Sanction
Pore
Staple
32. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Rail
singular
august
Police
33. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
broach
Spare
wag
Discriminating
34. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
lumber
nice
Channel
Sustain
35. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Negotiate
pied
Compromise
Rake
36. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
mince
occult
Subscribe
Relief
37. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
trenchant
Check
quail
Elliptical
38. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
alloy
essay
pluck
39. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
flag
lumber
meet
Milk
40. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
pedestrian
obtain
steep
Stem
41. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
steep
Qualify
Grate
Subscribe
42. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Police
Precipitate
singular
sap
43. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Slight
consequential
quail
waffle
44. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
broach
pine
Grate
steep
45. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
rent
Grave/Gravity
Pore
Coin
46. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
rail
Pore
obtain
flip
47. (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.
steep
essay
Mint
mince
48. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
flip
flag
scurvy
meet
49. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
flip
Gravity
fell
50. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
mince
Bridge
Modest
Milk