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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. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
appropriate
qualify
occult
Grill
2. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
Subscribe
pied
pine
fell
3. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Currency
nice
Hail
arrest/arresting
4. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Severe
personification
Coin
Currency
5. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
obtain
Check
meet
Floor
6. (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
Carp
Affect/Affected
Flag
Bridge
7. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
quail
Discriminating
strut
Bent
8. 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.
Grate
meet
rail
arrest/arresting
9. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Embroider
broach
intimate
Bridge
10. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
grouse
Root
list
Affect/Affected
11. (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.
sap
Slight
Affect/Affected
Police
12. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Sanction
Spare
strut
color
13. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
august
Cavalier
Sustain
Stem
14. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Buffet
august
Affect/Affected
Relief
15. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Carp
steep
Hail
Check
16. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Pore
prize
list
Flag
17. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Qualify
Temper
Hail
Cave
18. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
essay
Pore
grouse
Alien
19. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Check
intimate
Flag
Negotiate
20. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Slight
Subscribe
flip
appropriate
21. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Discriminating
Rake
damp
ford
22. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Cave
Buffet
pedestrian
Alien
23. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
pluck
Rail
Bridge
obtain
24. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
Staple
temper
Court
Bent
25. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
Lumber
Grate
sap
Severe
26. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
meet
Grate
Currency
Bent !
27. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
strut
obtain
Alien
Bent !
28. 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
Embroider
Stem
essay
Temper
29. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Eclipse
Negotiate
Bridge
trenchant
30. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Stock
obtain
Cave
pluck
31. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
Stock
Check
stand
Grate
32. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Milk
negotiate
Grate
Carp
33. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
mince
Flag
Severe
meet
34. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Milk
Staple
temper
Bridge
35. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
damp
Modest
Sanction
Rail
36. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
die
ford
qualify
pluck
37. (v) - To shock or stun
pied
Grate
arrest/arresting
august
38. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
Channel
Negotiate
lumber
rent
39. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
waffle
steep
exact
Root
40. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
scurvy
Qualify
brook
Gravity
41. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
Sanction
guy
Slight
Cave
42. (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.
Bridge
color
strut
Floor
43. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
Court
singular
flag
Staple
44. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
alloy
intimate
Grave/Gravity
Modest
45. 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 -
Grate
Pore
prize
Court
46. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Slight
sap
waffle
Mint
47. (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.
Rank
qualify
Mint
broach
48. (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.
alloy
Slight
Milk
Crop
49. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Cave
fell
Police
Badger
50. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
rail
arrest/arresting
Alien
Precipitate