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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. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
table
steep
wag
Hail
2. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
grouse
Negotiate
Alien
Modest
3. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Grave/Gravity
steep
consequential
Stem
4. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
list
guy
Subscribe
rail
5. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Subscribe
Grill
intimate
list
6. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
rail
Sustain
waffle
Bent !
7. 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.
Spare
die
exact
stand
8. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
list
Carp
color
Gravity
9. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
table
Qualify
trenchant
Precipitate
10. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Check
qualify
Badger
Temper
11. (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.
fell
Police
waffle
Temper
12. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Spare
Floor
stand
color
13. 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 -
trenchant
Court
Pore
august
14. (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.
stand
Buffet
scurvy
Bridge
15. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
fell
Compromise
broach
Grill
16. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
essay
die
temper
mince
17. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Constitution
guy
alloy
Coin
18. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
meet
pied
rent
sap
19. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Elliptical
Discriminating
mince
Sustain
20. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
pluck
lumber
Stem
obtain
21. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Rake
Carp
pine
Slight
22. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
die
damp
scurvy
Police
23. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Negotiate
alloy
sap
appropriate
24. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
steep
rent
Constitution
occult
25. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Grave/Gravity
guy
obtain
grouse
26. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Sanction
pluck
waffle
Relief
27. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
ford
grouse
Staple
Pore
28. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
flip
Relief
court
pedestrian
29. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
pine
Grate
negotiate
wag
30. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Channel
die
Cave
Rank
31. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Currency
fell
Floor
Sanction
32. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
broach
Floor
Cavalier
august
33. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Qualify
Check
Eclipse
pine
34. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
list
Carp
singular
qualify
35. 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
Temper
prize
Slight
Eclipse
36. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Staple
grouse
obtain
Crop
37. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
intimate
Carp
temper
Milk
38. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
pluck
Modest
Mint
Sanction
39. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
waffle
alloy
Floor
Staple
40. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
rail
Root
Cavalier
alloy
41. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
Alien
Badger
pied
Stock
42. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
negotiate
rail
Negotiate
personification
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
lumber
Discriminating
pluck
44. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
ford
prize
Embroider
meet
45. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
temper
Stock
flip
46. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Court
qualify
stand
Rake
47. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
grouse
stand
waffle
steep
48. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Embroider
Eclipse
trenchant
Rank
49. 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.
Grate
consequential
pedestrian
intimate
50. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Badger
Eclipse
arrest/arresting
obtain