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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. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
Stock
Lumber
stand
exact
2. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
Sustain
Floor
damp
Elliptical
3. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
rent
Stem
pine
Lumber
4. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Root
Negotiate
pine
Bridge
5. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
arrest/arresting
pine
prize
quail
6. 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
guy
singular
Temper
Grill
7. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Slight
Root
Compromise
Gravity
8. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
Alien
august
Embroider
personification
9. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
singular
waffle
fell
court
10. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Rank
Elliptical
Milk
Subscribe
11. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Check
steep
pluck
Mint
12. (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.
pied
strut
appropriate
Constitution
13. (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.
prize
trenchant
ford
Bridge
14. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Cavalier
pied
flag
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
brook
Qualify
Subscribe
16. (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.
Bridge
Temper
Police
Staple
17. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.
table
Grill
singular
Spare
18. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Slight
Buffet
Milk
Carp
19. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
trenchant
Badger
appropriate
Grate
20. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
pluck
die
ford
consequential
21. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
Relief
damp
Bent
22. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
scurvy
Badger
meet
Elliptical
23. 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.
Currency
court
waffle
pedestrian
24. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
flag
brook
Cave
Slight
25. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Sustain
essay
alloy
Relief
26. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Compromise
Grave/Gravity
Court
Cave
27. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
rent
Hail
Eclipse
flag
28. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
occult
Gravity
pied
prize
29. 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.
alloy
Cave
flag
waffle
30. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
qualify
Bent !
Embroider
meet
31. 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.
Floor
Compromise
arrest/arresting
Affect/Affected
32. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
pine
occult
Eclipse
damp
33. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
court
Cave
arrest/arresting
appropriate
34. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
nice
list
Stem
Bent !
35. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Coin
Channel
pedestrian
consequential
36. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
Carp
Grate
steep
rail
37. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
occult
singular
Subscribe
Spare
38. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
temper
Mint
meet
Relief
39. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Channel
Lumber
broach
pied
40. 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
Stem
pedestrian
Embroider
41. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Bent
Currency
rail
Alien
42. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Buffet
Discriminating
Lumber
negotiate
43. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
lumber
mince
wag
Hail
44. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
obtain
Pore
flip
Alien
45. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
Severe
Rake
consequential
Currency
46. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
wag
pied
meet
Pore
47. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Staple
Constitution
Milk
stand
48. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
color
pluck
ford
Mint
49. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Bent
Police
Modest
Cave
50. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
Staple
Cavalier
occult