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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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1. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
prize
Police
waffle
lumber
2. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
alloy
trenchant
Stem
Elliptical
3. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
list
Coin
Elliptical
Crop
4. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
personification
steep
Badger
nice
5. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
court
arrest/arresting
strut
qualify
6. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
appropriate
pedestrian
Eclipse
Check
7. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Court
flip
pluck
Stock
8. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Root
fell
Severe
Cavalier
9. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
fell
obtain
flip
Alien
10. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Root
Currency
scurvy
Pore
11. (v) - To shock or stun
Grave/Gravity
Cave
Stock
Grate
12. To attempt to gain the favor or support of a person or group - The politician courted support for the new bill he wanted to pass -
Court
steep
Currency
waffle
13. 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.
stand
Stock
arrest/arresting
pine
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.
rail
pluck
Mint
Grave/Gravity
15. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Stock
damp
flip
Flag
16. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Sanction
Police
Grave/Gravity
exact
17. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
nice
temper
Precipitate
Relief
18. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Severe
Discriminating
quail
consequential
19. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Constitution
arrest/arresting
pluck
Rail
20. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Crop
Rank
scurvy
Rake
21. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
temper
rail
lumber
grouse
22. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
august
Sustain
Milk
Sanction
23. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
broach
trenchant
Embroider
rent
24. 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.
appropriate
quail
alloy
Sanction
25. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
occult
Rake
strut
Bent
26. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
Gravity
Check
steep
Bent
27. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Staple
damp
Sanction
Constitution
28. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Embroider
nice
scurvy
Precipitate
29. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
obtain
lumber
Buffet
meet
30. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Buffet
Qualify
Lumber
Elliptical
31. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
list
Relief
consequential
wag
32. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Pore
Compromise
strut
Elliptical
33. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
table
Bent !
Carp
negotiate
34. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Rake
flag
Affect/Affected
guy
35. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
Root
pine
stand
flip
36. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
pine
Rank
Discriminating
prize
37. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
Check
trenchant
flag
pied
38. 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.
Alien
exact
guy
pine
39. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
scurvy
Court
fell
court
40. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
table
Sustain
pine
broach
41. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Modest
grouse
Slight
Police
42. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Discriminating
wag
august
quail
43. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
exact
essay
Hail
Currency
44. (v.) - To attempt to get recognition or applause (e.g. to milk an audience) The young singer stayed on stage after the applause died down hoping to milk more even more recognition from the audience.
court
Milk
flip
Affect/Affected
45. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
negotiate
Mint
trenchant
steep
46. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
mince
Negotiate
alloy
appropriate
47. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
table
mince
meet
lumber
48. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Staple
Eclipse
Alien
Cave
49. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
scurvy
Rail
Rake
color
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.
consequential
list
Police
Sanction