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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
meet
Negotiate
pluck
Grave/Gravity
2. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Crop
Compromise
Pore
alloy
3. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Slight
Mint
prize
Badger
4. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
Gravity
Rank
trenchant
Bent !
5. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.
Modest
temper
steep
ford
6. 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 -
Rail
Bent
Court
Stem
7. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Slight
Police
guy
Cave
8. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
Cavalier
guy
Bent
ford
9. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Rake
prize
Crop
damp
10. (v) - To shock or stun
table
pine
august
Grate
11. (v.) - To rummage around - search
Rank
Stem
Root
rent
12. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
alloy
Gravity
essay
grouse
13. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.
Grave/Gravity
Spare
lumber
Subscribe
14. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
Badger
Rake
die
Cavalier
15. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
scurvy
die
Root
Stem
16. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Court
rent
Precipitate
wag
17. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
stand
Relief
lumber
personification
18. To direct along a desired course. Charlotte - please channel the overflow of water towards the pond rather than into my garden.
Qualify
Rake
Channel
Modest
19. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
mince
Discriminating
Bent
Grave/Gravity
20. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
Embroider
table
Check
Subscribe
21. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Compromise
broach
Check
Grate
22. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
Rank
Bent !
rent
Sustain
23. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Hail
Lumber
grouse
strut
24. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
pied
damp
Severe
Currency
25. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Slight
Flag
meet
ford
26. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
Gravity
consequential
Crop
27. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Bent
Grill
Pore
arrest/arresting
28. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
ford
Eclipse
singular
alloy
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.
steep
Court
Grill
Police
30. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
nice
Badger
Bent !
Channel
31. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Spare
Court
broach
rail
32. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
color
Stock
scurvy
Grate
33. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
wag
brook
temper
Affect/Affected
34. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
Eclipse
Channel
personification
Rank
35. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.
Constitution
wag
court
Bridge
36. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
lumber
steep
Relief
nice
37. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
sap
consequential
Gravity
damp
38. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Eclipse
waffle
brook
lumber
39. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
Court
Temper
sap
strut
40. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
qualify
stand
Bent
color
41. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
appropriate
color
august
Staple
42. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
obtain
ford
pluck
flag
43. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
rail
Grave/Gravity
Pore
Milk
44. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
Court
Buffet
steep
Gravity
45. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Carp
temper
Negotiate
ford
46. 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.
Gravity
arrest/arresting
Eclipse
Compromise
47. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
nice
singular
Grave/Gravity
pluck
48. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
Carp
Rank
ford
Slight
49. 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
intimate
lumber
color
50. (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
table
Constitution
court