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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 take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
pedestrian
Sustain
personification
appropriate
2. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
mince
pied
brook
Compromise
3. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
exact
Currency
die
Affect/Affected
4. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
flag
pine
Stock
Currency
5. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
Sanction
grouse
mince
Floor
6. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
temper
Court
Sustain
essay
7. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Temper
strut
waffle
Currency
8. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Coin
Compromise
waffle
Stock
9. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Alien
ford
occult
Bent
10. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Alien
august
stand
pied
11. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
pied
broach
essay
pedestrian
12. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Severe
Eclipse
Rake
quail
13. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
Qualify
rail
broach
Grill
14. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
wag
Floor
Flag
steep
15. 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
occult
Pore
ford
Temper
16. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
Pore
Buffet
alloy
17. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Floor
wag
Slight
Pore
18. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
waffle
consequential
negotiate
die
19. 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.
Qualify
Spare
personification
alloy
20. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
Bridge
occult
Court
21. 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.
august
temper
Gravity
arrest/arresting
22. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
brook
Cavalier
Root
trenchant
23. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
temper
Cavalier
table
Channel
24. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
meet
Rake
singular
Currency
25. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
guy
Constitution
Pore
Cave
26. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
temper
trenchant
Relief
Bent
27. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
scurvy
alloy
Staple
court
28. (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.
Subscribe
Court
list
Constitution
29. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Hail
court
Buffet
flag
30. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
guy
Spare
Flag
pine
31. 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 -
Court
Spare
Stem
Cave
32. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
pluck
Subscribe
Bent !
Rail
33. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
guy
Precipitate
Bent
Lumber
34. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
singular
ford
pied
Temper
35. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
pluck
Check
occult
intimate
36. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
strut
Sustain
pluck
Alien
37. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
appropriate
Alien
Grill
lumber
38. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Negotiate
die
wag
strut
39. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
Coin
Temper
stand
Currency
40. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
pluck
meet
Rail
Carp
41. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
Hail
rent
steep
Grave/Gravity
42. (v) - To shock or stun
Grate
Root
Rail
Severe
43. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Embroider
Discriminating
Mint
Slight
44. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
arrest/arresting
Grate
nice
Alien
45. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
stand
damp
negotiate
fell
46. (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.
Lumber
Mint
broach
flag
47. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Qualify
nice
arrest/arresting
ford
48. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
intimate
prize
Carp
sap
49. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
stand
damp
Embroider
ford
50. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Root
Gravity
quail
Cavalier