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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 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
broach
Lumber
Bent !
2. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
august
Mint
Cavalier
obtain
3. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
strut
Grate
appropriate
Eclipse
4. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
scurvy
consequential
essay
Grate
5. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
Badger
Modest
singular
table
6. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
Sanction
Severe
court
qualify
7. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Grate
nice
Severe
Qualify
8. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Currency
temper
Precipitate
table
9. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Cave
die
mince
Staple
10. 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.
Mint
pedestrian
Cave
Slight
11. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
rail
Gravity
Severe
Sustain
12. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
list
sap
meet
singular
13. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Bent
Flag
obtain
personification
14. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Channel
Pore
Spare
occult
15. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Grill
Negotiate
Crop
ford
16. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Coin
Cave
alloy
nice
17. (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.
Constitution
Rank
stand
august
18. 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 -
broach
exact
Stem
Court
19. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
guy
Carp
Elliptical
brook
20. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
Floor
Stem
color
Check
21. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Bent
Sustain
Affect/Affected
Buffet
22. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
damp
Mint
temper
Stock
23. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
pedestrian
Stem
mince
Elliptical
24. 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
Temper
Rank
Bridge
Bent
25. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Hail
waffle
Mint
list
26. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
Hail
Sustain
personification
alloy
27. 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.
pedestrian
alloy
Constitution
Qualify
28. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Buffet
Milk
lumber
Grate
29. (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.
rail
pine
Police
pied
30. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
negotiate
Rail
Elliptical
Channel
31. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
qualify
damp
steep
Rail
32. (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.
die
Rake
Milk
Alien
33. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
Affect/Affected
die
Precipitate
temper
34. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
arrest/arresting
august
Court
Subscribe
35. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Eclipse
Crop
Elliptical
Staple
36. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
Stock
Grill
Carp
Rail
37. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Milk
Affect/Affected
fell
Constitution
38. (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.
Mint
Currency
Sustain
Cave
39. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Sustain
table
Root
Discriminating
40. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
waffle
occult
rent
prize
41. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
trenchant
lumber
personification
Stem
42. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
essay
list
ford
prize
43. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
guy
nice
Coin
damp
44. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
arrest/arresting
quail
waffle
Floor
45. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
Modest
Police
flip
Milk
46. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
steep
Carp
Modest
meet
47. (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
Eclipse
Affect/Affected
personification
ford
48. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Milk
Grill
Subscribe
Lumber
49. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
flag
strut
Eclipse
rent
50. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
grouse
mince
Staple
Sanction