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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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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. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
august
Spare
Floor
personification
2. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Check
Bent !
Cave
Elliptical
3. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
steep
Temper
occult
Stem
4. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
wag
Slight
broach
Rank
5. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Check
singular
Alien
Floor
6. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
Bent !
trenchant
nice
arrest/arresting
7. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Compromise
Staple
rent
nice
8. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
temper
consequential
Rail
Milk
9. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Constitution
Embroider
rail
list
10. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
brook
Rail
Coin
Sustain
11. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
damp
essay
strut
12. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
Grave/Gravity
Floor
Mint
occult
13. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Embroider
Coin
quail
brook
14. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Elliptical
pine
flag
arrest/arresting
15. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
grouse
color
Embroider
negotiate
16. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Staple
Bent !
personification
grouse
17. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
court
Mint
wag
Gravity
18. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
Root
essay
Sanction
Grill
19. (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
Cavalier
Affect/Affected
exact
Negotiate
20. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Channel
Rake
Bent
Cave
21. 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.
pedestrian
Stock
Lumber
fell
22. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
prize
Lumber
court
fell
23. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
grouse
Bent !
Compromise
guy
24. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
strut
Root
Modest
arrest/arresting
25. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Bent
sap
pied
Grave/Gravity
26. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
guy
Flag
Carp
Channel
27. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Buffet
Discriminating
Bent !
alloy
28. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Grill
Modest
Relief
Check
29. 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.
consequential
alloy
damp
guy
30. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
Precipitate
trenchant
die
grouse
31. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
Slight
brook
alloy
arrest/arresting
32. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
occult
Grave/Gravity
steep
Stem
33. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Discriminating
Temper
exact
Check
34. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Mint
negotiate
Spare
quail
35. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
rail
temper
Eclipse
Severe
36. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Sanction
Grill
Floor
Grave/Gravity
37. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Root
occult
Temper
Precipitate
38. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
intimate
Negotiate
Rake
die
39. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
Relief
pine
strut
Grave/Gravity
40. (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.
Court
strut
Pore
Constitution
41. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
color
Buffet
Stem
appropriate
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.
Discriminating
Police
Temper
exact
43. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
mince
Sustain
Bent
quail
44. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Alien
Bent
Coin
die
45. (v) - To shock or stun
Grate
Sustain
pedestrian
obtain
46. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Temper
Bent
Badger
consequential
47. 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
Channel
flip
Elliptical
48. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
pluck
stand
Embroider
Staple
49. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
consequential
Carp
Elliptical
Slight
50. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
quail
Slight
obtain
wag