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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings

Subjects : sat, english, vocabulary
Instructions:
  • 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. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.






2. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.






3. A group of trees. Please put the new bench in front of the stand of pine trees.






4. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.






5. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.






6. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?






7. To complain or grumble. Stop grousing and just come with us.






8. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.






9. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.






10. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown






11. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one






12. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.






13. To test or try; attempt; experiment. Dr. Ying has us essay several compounds in Chemistry class today.






14. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable






15. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.






16. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.






17. (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






18. (v.) - To put a stop to. With a tourniquet she was able to stem the flow of blood






19. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.






20. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane






21. (v) - To shock or stun






22. (v.) - To rummage around - search






23. (adj.) - Austere - rigid. She wore her hair in a severe bun and she dressed is a severe black - high necked dress.






24. 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.






25. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy






26. 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.






27. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.






28. A stereotypical or formulaic character. i don't remember her name beacause she was just a stock character in the play.






29. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -






30. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.






31. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.






32. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.






33. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.






34. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music






35. (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.






36. (n.) - A fundamental (e.g. staple crop)






37. (adj.) - Simple - unadorned. It was a small modest home but they wee happy to have their own place.






38. 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






39. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.






40. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment






41. 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.






42. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste






43. To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully. Don't mince word; say what you mean.






44. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers






45. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.






46. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.






47. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly






48. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.






49. To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound.






50. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.