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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings
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Subjects
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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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1. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
pluck
rent
qualify
flag
2. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Hail
consequential
court
flag
3. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Channel
Check
arrest/arresting
Qualify
4. 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.
arrest/arresting
brook
pied
rent
5. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
scurvy
Severe
appropriate
singular
6. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
Elliptical
prize
intimate
scurvy
7. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Carp
qualify
Eclipse
essay
8. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
appropriate
pied
august
quail
9. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Temper
court
Slight
Gravity
10. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
broach
Elliptical
arrest/arresting
Embroider
11. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
flip
Modest
Bent !
Bridge
12. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
fell
Discriminating
Currency
grouse
13. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
Alien
pedestrian
meet
14. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
Eclipse
Cave
damp
Qualify
15. 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
Channel
temper
Milk
16. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
Buffet
Root
Mint
appropriate
17. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
brook
Flag
Embroider
august
18. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
pedestrian
Currency
list
prize
19. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Discriminating
Currency
Affect/Affected
Rail
20. (v) - To shock or stun
obtain
pluck
Grate
Grave/Gravity
21. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Court
negotiate
Relief
pluck
22. 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.
Alien
trenchant
Carp
pedestrian
23. 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.
flag
Subscribe
Police
alloy
24. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
exact
Cave
consequential
Buffet
25. 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.
rail
consequential
wag
exact
26. (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.
table
Rank
Rail
Bridge
27. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
Gravity
Alien
damp
occult
28. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
pedestrian
personification
intimate
Bent !
29. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
sap
stand
essay
lumber
30. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
damp
Grill
Sanction
nice
31. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Carp
wag
table
Relief
32. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
obtain
Spare
Stem
Police
33. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Sustain
Stem
pedestrian
waffle
34. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Embroider
pedestrian
Check
Eclipse
35. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
essay
Police
Badger
Buffet
36. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Staple
Hail
Mint
pluck
37. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Sustain
Alien
fell
list
38. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Floor
obtain
Pore
Bent !
39. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
list
essay
scurvy
temper
40. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
sap
pine
rail
Court
41. (v.) - To rummage around - search
court
Qualify
Lumber
Root
42. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Rake
grouse
Qualify
august
43. (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
Temper
strut
Affect/Affected
44. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
rail
wag
Qualify
Elliptical
45. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
flip
quail
court
pine
46. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Lumber
Negotiate
Mint
personification
47. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Stock
Coin
Slight
Negotiate
48. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
arrest/arresting
Stem
color
Embroider
49. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stem
pine
meet
Court
50. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
arrest/arresting
Modest
Staple
court