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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 put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
table
Stem
Affect/Affected
Channel
2. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
arrest/arresting
Stock
lumber
singular
3. (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.
Precipitate
Elliptical
ford
Mint
4. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
stand
Modest
alloy
Pore
5. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Currency
Negotiate
steep
guy
6. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Root
Compromise
grouse
Check
7. 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.
pedestrian
Temper
trenchant
fell
8. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Carp
negotiate
intimate
Elliptical
9. (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.
brook
Police
personification
Severe
10. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Alien
Affect/Affected
pluck
singular
11. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
flag
arrest/arresting
consequential
sap
12. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Subscribe
Rail
Sustain
prize
13. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
broach
personification
singular
occult
14. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
Crop
strut
arrest/arresting
temper
15. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
Modest
consequential
pied
16. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
broach
Negotiate
Eclipse
Rank
17. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Carp
consequential
die
essay
18. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Sanction
Root
Cavalier
Court
19. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Embroider
court
Root
Court
20. 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 -
Grave/Gravity
Temper
Court
brook
21. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Floor
rail
Grate
Buffet
22. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
consequential
ford
Stem
Compromise
23. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
scurvy
Temper
trenchant
Spare
24. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Eclipse
stand
broach
prize
25. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
pluck
Flag
Root
Court
26. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
prize
ford
steep
Modest
27. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Crop
Rail
Modest
Stem
28. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
rent
Affect/Affected
Coin
august
29. 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.
Modest
alloy
appropriate
consequential
30. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
stand
negotiate
grouse
Precipitate
31. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
flip
Milk
steep
32. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
list
Negotiate
Rank
lumber
33. 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
Carp
mince
Temper
meet
34. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
pine
Grill
Negotiate
Mint
35. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
strut
Rake
august
rent
36. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
list
pine
Stem
temper
37. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Relief
wag
flip
trenchant
38. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Severe
meet
scurvy
flip
39. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
fell
pied
Bent
Hail
40. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Hail
Channel
Stock
guy
41. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
grouse
Hail
steep
Discriminating
42. 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.
Bent !
meet
arrest/arresting
damp
43. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
august
Grave/Gravity
flag
negotiate
44. (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
Check
guy
Cave
45. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
flip
Grave/Gravity
Channel
Eclipse
46. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Subscribe
Severe
list
Court
47. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
personification
Floor
Stem
list
48. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Rake
nice
Badger
mince
49. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Modest
negotiate
waffle
rail
50. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
meet
Channel
Rail
consequential