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SAT Vocab Multiple Meanings

Subjects : sat, english, vocabulary
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1. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.






2. To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration - let's table the discussion on cafeteria lunch and go for a nice walk instead.






3. (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.






4. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)






5. Official approval or disapproval of an action. Mrs' Gerring sanctioned ipod but only for studying vocabulary






6. 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.






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






8. (adj.) - Serious Pleas recognize the gravity of the situation and refrain from laughing.






9. (v) - To shock or stun






10. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.






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






12. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.






13. (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






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






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






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






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






18. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -






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






20. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement






21. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.






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.






23. (adj.) - Simple - undecorated






24. 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






25. General acceptance . The banning of handguns gained currency after the movie theater shooting spree.






26. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick






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






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






29. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.






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






31. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.






32. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.






33. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.






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






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






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






37. To devise a new word Who coined the name 'labradoodles?'






38. To attempt to gain the favor of. Right now our President is courting voters.






39. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.






40. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.






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






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






43. To lose vigor (as through grief). After her husband died - Mrs. Deary pined for weeks.






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






45. 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.






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






47. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.






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






49. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.






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