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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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1. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
Flag
ford
Subscribe
Grill
2. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
consequential
Slight
Subscribe
Channel
3. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
prize
Rake
Bent
sap
4. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.
temper
mince
Rail
Hail
5. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Root
Crop
obtain
rail
6. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
arrest/arresting
Court
Qualify
Negotiate
7. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
list
qualify
Affect/Affected
pine
8. (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
Affect/Affected
waffle
Eclipse
Bent !
9. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
sap
quail
Embroider
lumber
10. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
consequential
grouse
flag
Cavalier
11. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
prize
brook
Bent !
august
12. To complain about bitterly. He railed against the new regulations.
rail
Grill
august
Staple
13. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Hail
occult
Severe
flag
14. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary
prize
Grave/Gravity
Sanction
negotiate
15. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
prize
Carp
Relief
Affect/Affected
16. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
fell
Affect/Affected
Root
Channel
17. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
Rank
Police
Gravity
18. (adj.) - Having an offensively strong or unclean odor. The men's locker room is rank after a football game.
strut
Rank
Sustain
brook
19. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
guy
flip
broach
pluck
20. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
Carp
intimate
Floor
Embroider
21. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.
personification
grouse
mince
flip
22. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
Currency
consequential
flag
appropriate
23. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Slight
Temper
Elliptical
Crop
24. 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 -
essay
Coin
Court
Embroider
25. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
steep
Stock
Hail
court
26. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
nice
Pore
Badger
appropriate
27. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)
Staple
Compromise
die
Check
28. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.
Negotiate
Bridge
Rake
Severe
29. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
Negotiate
Discriminating
broach
Buffet
30. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.
damp
Sanction
Court
Currency
31. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
guy
Slight
Eclipse
Relief
32. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Spare
Police
nice
flag
33. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood
Check
color
list
Stem
34. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
brook
singular
Crop
court
35. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.
pluck
alloy
Currency
Pore
36. (v) - To shock or stun
Grill
Currency
Grate
Alien
37. 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
Check
alloy
Subscribe
38. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
meet
Stock
Subscribe
Modest
39. 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.
pine
pedestrian
Eclipse
Grave/Gravity
40. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
wag
Alien
Rank
Sustain
41. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
Coin
Precipitate
die
list
42. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated
Bent
Spare
Rake
grouse
43. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
Stock
brook
Affect/Affected
meet
44. (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.
scurvy
Sustain
Buffet
Mint
45. 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
Check
flag
scurvy
46. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Sustain
pine
Rank
arrest/arresting
47. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
Bent
Grave/Gravity
Temper
48. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
Grate
waffle
Eclipse
Modest
49. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
lumber
pedestrian
exact
alloy
50. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.
Stock
broach
waffle
sap