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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. 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
qualify
rail
flip
2. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
Modest
pluck
prize
ford
3. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Stem
Hail
Root
waffle
4. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Crop
Cavalier
prize
scurvy
5. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
intimate
rail
singular
scurvy
6. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
guy
Embroider
die
appropriate
7. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Channel
occult
Coin
Rail
8. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Relief
Constitution
Cavalier
Rake
9. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
meet
Constitution
Subscribe
Rake
10. 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.
Spare
Alien
alloy
pied
11. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
Badger
trenchant
table
strut
12. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Bent !
Coin
lumber
Discriminating
13. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
pied
Sustain
Grate
singular
14. (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.
Badger
Compromise
Mint
Root
15. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
pluck
steep
damp
flag
16. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
brook
Compromise
august
intimate
17. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Coin
Spare
Severe
Hail
18. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
rent
Subscribe
Negotiate
Cave
19. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
pied
negotiate
pluck
Alien
20. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
damp
essay
trenchant
grouse
21. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
pine
Bent !
rail
Root
22. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
appropriate
Gravity
list
Currency
23. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Bent
exact
rail
Carp
24. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
sap
lumber
Grate
exact
25. 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.
appropriate
arrest/arresting
stand
scurvy
26. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Floor
Grill
Flag
Negotiate
27. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
pied
flag
rent
Buffet
28. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
arrest/arresting
Grave/Gravity
Compromise
Lumber
29. 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
Channel
Rank
list
30. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
Police
Discriminating
color
lumber
31. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
temper
scurvy
Spare
strut
32. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
Carp
Lumber
Cavalier
pine
33. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
essay
Flag
Gravity
Compromise
34. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Root
Check
singular
Modest
35. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
qualify
Precipitate
Badger
Police
36. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Grate
Badger
Bent !
obtain
37. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Alien
rent
Embroider
flag
38. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Modest
Badger
essay
Subscribe
39. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Police
Flag
Stock
quail
40. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
grouse
Severe
prize
occult
41. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
steep
Lumber
Currency
alloy
42. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Carp
Slight
Buffet
table
43. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
Buffet
strut
pluck
Sustain
44. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
brook
Sustain
pine
negotiate
45. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
rail
mince
Rank
Bent !
46. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
flip
Compromise
Bent
wag
47. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Crop
intimate
alloy
Rank
48. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
flag
Relief
quail
meet
49. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
die
Precipitate
Rank
Bridge
50. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
ford
pied
Temper
Discriminating