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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. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
Qualify
guy
Relief
Currency
2. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
court
broach
qualify
strut
3. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
Precipitate
Bent
ford
pine
4. (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
meet
pluck
Pore
5. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Elliptical
stand
Bent !
Bent
6. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Floor
Grill
Spare
Coin
7. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
prize
Floor
rail
Sanction
8. (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.
nice
Sustain
Constitution
Milk
9. To successfully travel through. He negotiated the sharp turn very poorly.
Rake
negotiate
Constitution
august
10. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
steep
Channel
Currency
Badger
11. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
Bridge
exact
negotiate
Buffet
12. 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.
Affect/Affected
Rake
trenchant
arrest/arresting
13. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Sustain
consequential
guy
Severe
14. 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 -
guy
Court
damp
prize
15. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Slight
Milk
Rail
intimate
16. (v) - To shock or stun
Negotiate
die
mince
Grate
17. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
intimate
Stem
pluck
Severe
18. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Bent
Subscribe
Sustain
temper
19. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
personification
Flag
Elliptical
fell
20. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
strut
negotiate
occult
prize
21. 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.
steep
waffle
Cavalier
alloy
22. (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
alloy
Sustain
23. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
fell
Lumber
steep
Elliptical
24. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
waffle
Negotiate
Temper
brook
25. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Stock
Constitution
Gravity
Stem
26. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
Alien
court
Milk
rail
27. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Currency
pied
Pore
Subscribe
28. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
obtain
rent
strut
Eclipse
29. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.
stand
obtain
Badger
steep
30. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
Qualify
grouse
intimate
temper
31. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
Affect/Affected
personification
Discriminating
Badger
32. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
Currency
sap
Bridge
Root
33. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Check
Grave/Gravity
Milk
obtain
34. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
wag
Embroider
color
Root
35. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
guy
Affect/Affected
Severe
Carp
36. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
Qualify
Sustain
obtain
Staple
37. 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.
exact
appropriate
Eclipse
obtain
38. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Sustain
Mint
Discriminating
flag
39. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
quail
wag
pine
temper
40. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Floor
brook
Elliptical
Rank
41. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
pied
Constitution
Rank
Floor
42. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Staple
consequential
Badger
Elliptical
43. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
die
court
Discriminating
negotiate
44. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
pine
scurvy
Sustain
quail
45. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
fell
nice
Bent
Rail
46. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
steep
grouse
Floor
mince
47. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
consequential
Bent !
color
quail
48. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Modest
lumber
Slight
Channel
49. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
quail
scurvy
Cavalier
intimate
50. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'
Coin
Sanction
grouse
intimate