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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. To reduce quality or value of something. If you defrost and refreeze the meat you will compromise the quality.
Compromise
Slight
brook
flip
2. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
Grate
pluck
consequential
Cave
3. A rope - cord or cable attached as a brace or guide. The guy helped secure the mast.
guy
Relief
Flag
rent
4. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Currency
arrest/arresting
appropriate
Rake
5. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
Embroider
Cave
Subscribe
ford
6. Majestic - venerable. Albert Bierstadt painted august mountains.
august
Pore
flip
sap
7. A result or outcome of an action. The seniors' prank precipitated a ban on all future senior pranks.
pedestrian
Badger
steep
Precipitate
8. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
flag
color
Bent
Cave
9. (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.
meet
Milk
Lumber
Cave
10. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Hail
wag
Rank
Temper
11. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
Carp
table
trenchant
essay
12. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
Court
steep
broach
Relief
13. Exacting - fastidious - very precise. The reason the watch maker could command such high prices is because his work is so nice.
Spare
prize
meet
nice
14. 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.
meet
alloy
Sustain
Flag
15. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
pluck
Buffet
Milk
color
16. Elevation of a land surface. The globe we have had all the mountain ranges in relief. Remember bas relief?
Severe
Relief
Sanction
Rake
17. (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
essay
ford
qualify
18. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
Court
Crop
brook
broach
19. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
table
Root
Crop
Negotiate
20. A tool used for shaping. My father used a die to shape the replacement spindle for our stair railing.
waffle
Hail
die
Rail
21. To change as if by dyeing - to distort or affect. When she colored her hair purple it colored my impression of her.
color
obtain
Staple
Sanction
22. (v.) - To complain After awhile her carping became very irritating because she never said anything positive about the school.
waffle
pine
Carp
Mint
23. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Badger
strut
Severe
Flag
24. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
mince
Root
Lumber
scurvy
25. 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
Grill
essay
Temper
Channel
26. (v.) - To believe in. I subscribe to the 'less is more' theory of dressing so I usually do not wear jewelry
Subscribe
Stem
fell
brook
27. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
occult
Slight
obtain
Lumber
28. To modify ex: modify work He qualified his remarks so that the older voters were not offended.
temper
negotiate
scurvy
qualify
29. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
Sanction
Cave
Grave/Gravity
intimate
30. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Grill
intimate
meet
scurvy
31. (v.) - To bother - question repeatedly Harry badgered me for a new lacrosse stick
occult
Badger
color
Bridge
32. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
Crop
Mint
Severe
Sustain
33. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
strut
lumber
trenchant
Slight
34. (adj.) - Indirect - vague . After a while I tired of her elliptical hints and asked her directly what she wanted from me.
Elliptical
Bridge
mince
strut
35. (v.) - To elaborate or exaggerate. Every story Mike tells is so embroidered - that it is impossible to understand exactly what really is true.
court
Embroider
Rail
flip
36. (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
Pore
Check
brook
Affect/Affected
37. 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.
pluck
Bent !
Cave
arrest/arresting
38. A serious situation or problem. Joe did not apprear to recognize the gravity of the situation
list
Mint
table
Gravity
39. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
flip
intimate
personification
rent
40. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
prize
pluck
Pore
Buffet
41. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
Discriminating
Eclipse
Cavalier
Stock
42. 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
list
Buffet
Compromise
43. (v.) - To question intensively . The criminal was grilled for hours by the police
lumber
Grill
Staple
Coin
44. To sap or droop; to become spiritless. I am sorry to be flagging but I am suffering from jet lag.
consequential
mince
Crop
flag
45. (v.) - To insult - put down . Every word she said was meant as a slight and the whole class recognized her hostility.
Rank
list
Severe
Slight
46. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
strut
appropriate
Affect/Affected
Compromise
47. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Severe
Bent !
Rake
court
48. To pry - to press - or force with a lever; something taken by force - He prized the locked door until the door jam gave way.
table
negotiate
prize
Lumber
49. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
obtain
pied
steep
pedestrian
50. Courage - spunk - fortitude. Despite hard times - James had amazing pluck.
Grill
Relief
pluck
Rail