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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
steep
Embroider
Bent !
Rail
2. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Root
Rank
Grill
Mint
3. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Eclipse
intimate
color
Channel
4. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stem
Precipitate
Crop
quail
5. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Sustain
color
appropriate
qualify
6. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
damp
fell
scurvy
Channel
7. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Embroider
Alien
Spare
Rake
8. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
strut
qualify
Compromise
Lumber
9. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
appropriate
brook
stand
Rake
10. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
rail
trenchant
Buffet
pluck
11. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Modest
intimate
negotiate
qualify
12. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Eclipse
Elliptical
essay
Negotiate
13. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Modest
Grave/Gravity
Root
Crop
14. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Pore
pied
appropriate
Rank
15. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
exact
trenchant
rent
Negotiate
16. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
trenchant
Affect/Affected
consequential
Badger
17. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Temper
qualify
Severe
Bent
18. (n. - adj.) - Artificial or pretentious behavior. The trouble with Jill is that her behavior is so affected that it is impossible to determine her real personality
Grill
Affect/Affected
Court
exact
19. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
essay
Discriminating
prize
Floor
20. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
wag
die
Channel
Floor
21. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
prize
quail
Currency
Lumber
22. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
prize
mince
qualify
Constitution
23. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Severe
rail
color
Negotiate
24. 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.
negotiate
exact
Police
personification
25. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Coin
strut
Flag
pedestrian
26. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Embroider
flip
damp
exact
27. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
lumber
Channel
appropriate
ford
28. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
lumber
Badger
Stock
Modest
29. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
appropriate
steep
Bridge
essay
30. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Modest
Severe
appropriate
Subscribe
31. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Coin
Sustain
Slight
guy
32. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Mint
Negotiate
Relief
Stock
33. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
table
appropriate
Spare
Stem
34. 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.
Cavalier
pedestrian
Modest
wag
35. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
table
temper
Gravity
personification
36. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
steep
Lumber
Hail
Alien
37. (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
Spare
list
Hail
38. (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.
pluck
Subscribe
Crop
Police
39. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Gravity
singular
Grill
Currency
40. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
mince
Subscribe
pied
scurvy
41. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Grill
Staple
Discriminating
sap
42. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Milk
Lumber
fell
rent
43. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
intimate
personification
Check
Severe
44. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
Floor
Embroider
Constitution
occult
45. 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.
Court
august
Qualify
alloy
46. 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.
obtain
pine
Affect/Affected
arrest/arresting
47. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
flag
sap
Alien
occult
48. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Elliptical
pine
mince
intimate
49. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Qualify
august
Slight
fell
50. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Badger
fell
Police
Currency