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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. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Spare
Eclipse
Milk
waffle
2. (v.) - To attempt to get recognition or applause (e.g. to milk an audience) The young singer stayed on stage after the applause died down hoping to milk more even more recognition from the audience.
rail
Milk
Court
intimate
3. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Cavalier
Bridge
trenchant
Badger
4. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
obtain
court
grouse
singular
5. (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.
damp
Mint
Staple
Lumber
6. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Affect/Affected
Carp
Subscribe
quail
7. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
Bent
Relief
pied
ford
8. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Rail
Spare
Root
Crop
9. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
obtain
Flag
Pore
stand
10. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
exact
pedestrian
Relief
Grill
11. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
personification
guy
Subscribe
list
12. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Grave/Gravity
fell
Carp
court
13. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Channel
flag
Negotiate
Carp
14. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
consequential
pied
Floor
die
15. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
stand
broach
appropriate
Stock
16. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Grill
die
pied
Stem
17. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
pied
Police
Grave/Gravity
Floor
18. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Crop
august
Milk
rent
19. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Lumber
arrest/arresting
Elliptical
Embroider
20. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
color
Currency
mince
Carp
21. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
trenchant
rail
qualify
guy
22. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
guy
Channel
Slight
Flag
23. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
negotiate
Mint
guy
Rank
24. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Staple
brook
negotiate
trenchant
25. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Hail
Crop
Qualify
ford
26. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
personification
essay
Elliptical
wag
27. (v) - To shock or stun
alloy
prize
court
Grate
28. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
Sustain
steep
Badger
Embroider
29. 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.
Milk
alloy
Police
arrest/arresting
30. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Modest
Currency
table
rent
31. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
stand
Qualify
table
Lumber
32. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Staple
Rake
flag
fell
33. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Qualify
pluck
Court
Embroider
34. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
consequential
Crop
Rake
Bent
35. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Temper
Check
grouse
Coin
36. 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
Hail
prize
occult
37. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
Root
Currency
strut
Badger
38. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Constitution
rail
Root
Eclipse
39. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
pluck
Grave/Gravity
consequential
Buffet
40. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
flag
Floor
ford
Pore
41. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Stock
Elliptical
waffle
nice
42. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
Mint
sap
essay
Channel
43. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Check
Slight
guy
table
44. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
intimate
Rail
Elliptical
occult
45. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Flag
sap
Affect/Affected
Currency
46. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
singular
nice
stand
meet
47. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Modest
Discriminating
damp
Flag
48. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
guy
Grill
broach
Bent !
49. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
Elliptical
pine
appropriate
50. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
Bent
flag
Gravity
trenchant