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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. Multicolored - usually in blotches. His face was pied from exposure to poison ivy
pied
Police
arrest/arresting
Modest
2. Hidden - concealed - beyond comprehension. John Lofter was well regarded because his evil intentions were occult.
singular
occult
Temper
Relief
3. To saturate or completely soak - as in to let a tea bag steep. Allow the tea to steep for at least five minutes -
color
steep
Check
fell
4. To equivocate or change one's position. You can't count on Jane: she always waffles at the last moment
court
waffle
Temper
meet
5. Exceptional - unusual - odd.She was singular in her gymnasts talent. She was singular in her Gothic taste.
singular
intimate
Buffet
Flag
6. 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.
Rail
consequential
alloy
Subscribe
7. To lose courage - turn frightened. The chimpanzee was quailed by the alpha male in the group.
Elliptical
quail
Bent !
meet
8. Soften or moderate Although he was disappointed - my dad tempered his words with a slight smile.
temper
Precipitate
nice
scurvy
9. To tolerate - endure - countenance. I can brook many of his silly habits but loud gum chewing is intolerable
negotiate
pedestrian
brook
Severe
10. Overshadow; surpass. The younger brother - Tim - eclipsed his sister as timed relays.
Modest
lumber
Grill
Eclipse
11. (v.) - To cut short. He cropped his jeans so he he could wade into the water and not have wet pants around his ankles
waffle
Lumber
Crop
trenchant
12. Fitting - proper.It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame
Crop
brook
Staple
meet
13. The supporting structural cross-part of a wing. Guitars have struts across the neck.
flip
Temper
list
strut
14. Inhumanely cruel. Attila the Hun was probably the most fell of all rulers.
Bridge
fell
Milk
Hail
15. To imply - suggest - or insinuate. He intimated that I had stolen his bike.
exact
intimate
rail
Floor
16. (adj.) - Unfamiliar - foreign The new schedule was so alien to me that I kept showing up at the wrong time for about a week.
appropriate
Bent
rail
Alien
17. To successfully travel through. We negotiated our way through the narrow street in Chainatown
guy
Grave/Gravity
Negotiate
trenchant
18. (v.) - To complain about or denounce bitterly
nice
Cavalier
Rail
essay
19. (n.) - A liking or talent for (syn: predilection - proclivity - penchant). The SAT really likes this one
Bent !
Gravity
Carp
Grate
20. (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.
arrest/arresting
Milk
Rail
meet
21. (v.) - To withstand . The new stone house sustained to high gustly wind.
steep
Sustain
Grill
Gravity
22. (n.) - A dissolute man - womanizer. Do not go out with Bill - he's a rake and can't be trusted.
Rake
qualify
occult
rent
23. A perfect example Sam was the personification of bravery.
exact
personification
Slight
Check
24. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating. For some reason very librarian our school has ever ever hired has been trenchant.
flag
color
Grill
trenchant
25. To bring up - announce - begin to talk about. Many parents are afraid to broach the subject of colleges with their kids
sap
obtain
broach
Root
26. To be established - accepted - or customary. After years of community service - Henry was finally obtained.
prize
Sanction
Slight
obtain
27. To restrain; halt; contain. He was able to check the flow of water with his wrench.
Mint
Flag
Check
guy
28. (v) - To shock or stun. I was floored by his unexpected bouquet of flowers
color
mince
qualify
Floor
29. Wit - joker. I love having dinner with your cousin; he's such a wag.
Check
alloy
die
wag
30. (v.) - To proclaim enthusiastically. Harry was hailed as the greatest lacrosse player Hackley has ever seen.
Hail
Alien
flag
essay
31. (n.) - To read over or study with great attention. Fran pored over the yearbook hoping to find himself in many pictures.
Milk
singular
rent
Pore
32. To take for one's own use; confiscate. Harry appropriated the candy supply for himself.
personification
Cavalier
color
appropriate
33. To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream. Climb every mountain; ford every stream--are words from the Sound of Music
essay
Stem
grouse
ford
34. (v) - To shock or stun
Grate
Negotiate
temper
Coin
35. (v.) - To toss around The ship was buffeted by high winds)
fell
rent
Buffet
Floor
36. To move heavily and clumsily. Hagrid lumbered back to his shack.
august
pied
lumber
arrest/arresting
37. To tear or torn; an opening or tear. There was a rent in his uniform jacket from the barbed wire fence -
rent
singular
grouse
Embroider
38. (v.) - To join two things together The wellness club and the athletic department were bridged my their mutual interest in having Hackley serve healthy food.
Embroider
Bridge
Constitution
Affect/Affected
39. (v.) - To modify or soften the severity of a statement
alloy
Grill
nice
Qualify
40. To enervate or weaken the vitality of. A sunny day at the beach saps all the energy out of me.
flip
sap
Precipitate
Pore
41. -pompous - self-important. He believes he is consequential because he donated money to the school fund.
consequential
Qualify
august
Precipitate
42. Sarcastic - impertinent. He was sent to the principal's office for being flip in Miss Gerry's class.
fell
flip
court
Bent
43. Contemptible; despicable. I find his behavior to be scurvy.
Bent !
Crop
qualify
scurvy
44. An arrogant attitude. George took a cavalier attitude towards smoking in the men's room.
prize
Cavalier
Carp
pedestrian
45. To become weak; to lose interest. After the long battle the soldiers were flagged.
Court
Flag
Embroider
strut
46. A strong tendency. Annie has a bent for Chemistry.
consequential
Spare
Bent
rent
47. (v.) - To move slowly and awkwardly. The old man lumbered down the lane
Lumber
Channel
Eclipse
Badger
48. To lean or tilt to one side. When our dog wakes from a nap - his head lists to one side.
Police
list
alloy
damp
49. (v.) - To give in - acquiesce Eventually - Mimi caved in and let the girls wear eye makeup
Cave
Spare
Rank
Lumber
50. Selective or refined taste. Nina had discriminating taste
singular
Discriminating
brook
Grave/Gravity