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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. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
ford
Crop
Coin
broach
2. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Spare
Pore
Check
Rail
3. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
Bent !
lumber
court
Discriminating
4. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Slight
Discriminating
Lumber
damp
5. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Bent !
Cave
quail
Carp
6. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
exact
Staple
Severe
stand
7. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
pluck
Staple
Cavalier
Check
8. 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.
Cave
alloy
Affect/Affected
brook
9. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
court
die
personification
Pore
10. (v) - To shock or stun
Grate
fell
Cavalier
stand
11. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
pied
lumber
Check
alloy
12. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Stem
lumber
Spare
Modest
13. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Carp
pedestrian
Coin
guy
14. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
ford
color
mince
prize
15. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
court
Carp
Precipitate
Check
16. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
appropriate
pluck
steep
Compromise
17. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
Stock
Court
Rank
18. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
scurvy
Embroider
Badger
qualify
19. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Relief
color
stand
Buffet
20. (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
trenchant
lumber
Affect/Affected
Negotiate
21. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
Root
meet
occult
Qualify
22. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
arrest/arresting
Grave/Gravity
lumber
damp
23. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Bent
Rail
Cave
quail
24. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Sanction
die
Staple
flag
25. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
Bent
Modest
Qualify
scurvy
26. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
august
rail
wag
court
27. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Root
Discriminating
singular
grouse
28. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Grill
Alien
intimate
singular
29. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
Stem
lumber
Compromise
30. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Affect/Affected
Grill
Channel
Rank
31. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
sap
steep
Embroider
Lumber
32. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
Affect/Affected
fell
Sanction
die
33. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
Sustain
table
strut
flip
34. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
pluck
Stock
die
appropriate
35. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Embroider
Police
Mint
Compromise
36. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
stand
Stock
essay
meet
37. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
pedestrian
nice
trenchant
Milk
38. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Negotiate
obtain
waffle
Carp
39. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Stock
intimate
guy
Court
40. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
trenchant
intimate
Grill
sap
41. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Grill
pied
august
list
42. 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.
die
exact
negotiate
Gravity
43. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
strut
Pore
Carp
Mint
44. 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.
exact
arrest/arresting
Relief
color
45. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Rank
Crop
personification
broach
46. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
temper
Floor
Alien
obtain
47. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
Severe
brook
scurvy
Bent !
48. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Negotiate
Cavalier
Constitution
Cave
49. (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.
Qualify
Constitution
Sanction
Currency
50. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
Carp
personification
rail
Stock