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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. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
grouse
essay
Elliptical
steep
2. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
pine
ford
Crop
Elliptical
3. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
scurvy
Subscribe
alloy
4. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
Elliptical
pedestrian
Subscribe
5. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
waffle
Spare
alloy
qualify
6. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Compromise
Relief
fell
color
7. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
wag
Elliptical
Pore
rail
8. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Compromise
Buffet
rail
essay
9. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Flag
intimate
scurvy
exact
10. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Grill
intimate
strut
Compromise
11. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Police
Bent !
alloy
pluck
12. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
Qualify
Sanction
grouse
13. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
Mint
Cavalier
Bent
pine
14. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Hail
fell
Badger
Root
15. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
personification
Sustain
Grill
Police
16. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Floor
Stock
Stem
appropriate
17. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
intimate
Severe
Court
list
18. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
Eclipse
Currency
sap
19. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
Severe
lumber
Coin
Crop
20. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
steep
Rail
Embroider
essay
21. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
negotiate
pied
Milk
Cave
22. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Mint
Eclipse
grouse
arrest/arresting
23. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
Modest
damp
Severe
color
24. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
pedestrian
Police
pine
Buffet
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 -
die
Sustain
Grave/Gravity
Court
26. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
Stem
damp
essay
ford
27. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Subscribe
Crop
flip
Spare
28. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
alloy
pied
rent
Currency
29. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Bent !
obtain
damp
Lumber
30. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
brook
Qualify
Stem
Discriminating
31. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
obtain
Rank
august
Channel
32. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Bent !
die
consequential
Negotiate
33. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
quail
Grave/Gravity
nice
color
34. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Gravity
Cave
Flag
Rail
35. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Badger
meet
flag
appropriate
36. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Grave/Gravity
Hail
Cavalier
meet
37. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Police
trenchant
Subscribe
Grate
38. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Sustain
strut
Stem
flag
39. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
essay
intimate
Modest
Check
40. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
list
pedestrian
meet
ford
41. (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.
nice
die
Constitution
Rank
42. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
Rank
Bent !
Gravity
stand
43. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Alien
Sanction
Precipitate
mince
44. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
appropriate
Currency
guy
trenchant
45. (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
color
Gravity
Court
46. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
steep
rail
Staple
pedestrian
47. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Badger
Stock
Grave/Gravity
quail
48. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
appropriate
Sanction
sap
Lumber
49. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Rail
qualify
Bridge
flag
50. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
pied
mince
court
Cave