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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings

Subjects : sat, english, vocabulary
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1. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.






2. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.






3. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.






4. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?






5. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup






6. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.






7. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.






8. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.






9. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.






10. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police






11. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'






12. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.






13. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.






14. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.






15. 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






16. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.






17. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.






18. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.






19. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.






20. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.






21. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.






22. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary






23. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.






24. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation






25. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one






26. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.






27. 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.






28. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.






29. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.






30. (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.






31. (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.






32. 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.






33. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.






34. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.






35. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.






36. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown






37. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles






38. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.






39. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste






40. 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.






41. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.






42. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated






43. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.






44. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.






45. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.






46. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.






47. (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






48. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.






49. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.






50. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.







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