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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 lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.
obtain
Pore
appropriate
pine
2. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
Sustain
Pore
Precipitate
Negotiate
3. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Cave
grouse
Discriminating
rent
4. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
steep
pied
Floor
grouse
5. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
Crop
alloy
Channel
mince
6. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
Qualify
Carp
Precipitate
brook
7. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
wag
Rank
Sustain
Root
8. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
alloy
guy
Bent
color
9. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
mince
fell
Crop
exact
10. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
nice
Root
Floor
personification
11. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
Relief
qualify
essay
Cave
12. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Rail
Embroider
Sustain
Sanction
13. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
lumber
temper
broach
flag
14. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
ford
lumber
Floor
Staple
15. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Modest
intimate
pedestrian
grouse
16. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
essay
scurvy
Gravity
flip
17. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stem
Channel
brook
Milk
18. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
rail
Sustain
stand
consequential
19. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Rank
meet
appropriate
Gravity
20. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Grave/Gravity
fell
Milk
die
21. 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.
grouse
arrest/arresting
qualify
Bent !
22. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
nice
temper
Rail
die
23. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
Pore
broach
grouse
intimate
24. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.
essay
Currency
temper
die
25. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Pore
temper
Milk
Rank
26. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Police
Channel
mince
consequential
27. (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.
mince
Bridge
pedestrian
lumber
28. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
rail
color
Slight
Check
29. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Cave
Rank
temper
obtain
30. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Modest
Channel
Relief
color
31. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
Badger
pluck
august
32. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
Cavalier
pine
Stock
strut
33. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
temper
Spare
Severe
Mint
34. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Carp
negotiate
Modest
flip
35. (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
Alien
Police
prize
36. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
nice
Gravity
Compromise
quail
37. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
Temper
flag
Affect/Affected
Negotiate
38. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Carp
waffle
grouse
alloy
39. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Grill
wag
Eclipse
table
40. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
die
stand
Discriminating
Hail
41. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Relief
Staple
Carp
personification
42. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Eclipse
rent
Relief
flip
43. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Rank
Subscribe
Discriminating
broach
44. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
pluck
qualify
Slight
strut
45. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
alloy
Bent !
Stock
Channel
46. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Mint
wag
Currency
occult
47. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Severe
mince
Rake
Floor
48. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
brook
Rail
Stock
Grave/Gravity
49. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
flip
Carp
prize
Grate
50. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
Gravity
Elliptical
arrest/arresting
grouse