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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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1. (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
Temper
Affect/Affected
court
rail
2. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
grouse
Qualify
lumber
intimate
3. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
rail
court
list
Badger
4. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
grouse
court
negotiate
Elliptical
5. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Floor
Badger
Modest
Flag
6. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
trenchant
mince
Qualify
ford
7. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
die
Sustain
strut
Elliptical
8. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
brook
quail
Crop
Rail
9. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
Relief
rail
Slight
pied
10. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
flip
die
Crop
flag
11. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Grave/Gravity
Buffet
Severe
essay
12. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
waffle
Milk
Cave
Police
13. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
stand
Root
pedestrian
essay
14. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Grill
Court
Bent !
pied
15. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stem
Stock
meet
trenchant
16. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
list
exact
Relief
Root
17. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Grill
Temper
list
Cavalier
18. (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.
Pore
Eclipse
grouse
Constitution
19. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
broach
prize
Floor
obtain
20. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
rail
Qualify
personification
nice
21. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
guy
Eclipse
Rake
Grill
22. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Stock
Grave/Gravity
waffle
essay
23. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Affect/Affected
Floor
Spare
fell
24. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Grave/Gravity
Elliptical
Subscribe
pied
25. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Slight
nice
Eclipse
Grate
26. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Eclipse
meet
occult
Police
27. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Check
table
negotiate
Badger
28. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Modest
meet
guy
Lumber
29. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
scurvy
prize
lumber
Carp
30. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
appropriate
Milk
Constitution
Channel
31. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Mint
Qualify
Slight
Buffet
32. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Mint
singular
pluck
Modest
33. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
essay
guy
Flag
sap
34. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
temper
Root
Rank
Cavalier
35. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Modest
scurvy
Staple
alloy
36. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
Pore
qualify
singular
court
37. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
steep
Pore
Eclipse
Bent
38. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Slight
prize
Badger
Rail
39. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
intimate
rent
rail
40. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
ford
Mint
prize
Modest
41. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
occult
Negotiate
obtain
fell
42. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Qualify
Check
Badger
fell
43. (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.
Sanction
Bridge
damp
obtain
44. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
Rail
sap
steep
45. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Police
qualify
occult
Lumber
46. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Badger
fell
Carp
pine
47. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
intimate
Cavalier
consequential
Rank
48. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
Carp
wag
alloy
49. 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.
exact
negotiate
Rake
consequential
50. (v.) - To regulate - control. Who is going to police the dark alley to make sure it is safe for the young children who pass by every day.
Police
Grill
brook
singular